Content: By Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England.
Content: First edition; cf. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (Philadelphia: Library Co.), no. 11111; Negro history, 1553-1903 (Philadelphia. Library Co.), no. 194; and The Negro in the United States, by Dorothy B. Porter, no. 1284.
Content: Frontispiece (trimmed and mounted) is an engraved portrait of the author.
Content: "Published ... Septr. 1st, 1773 by Archd. Bell, bookseller no. 8 near the Saracens Head Aldgate."--Front.