NMLP P-038243 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Phillis Wheatley · A. Bell, London (sold in Boston by Cox and Berry) · 1773

The engraved frontispiece portrait after Scipio Moorhead exists in two states (state A without crosshatching), and portrait state does not track edition — Christie's has catalogued a Stoddard-Edition-1 copy with the portrait in state A, while Bonhams catalogued another Edition-1 copy with the portrait in Stoddard's state B. The "To the Publick" attestation is signed in type by leading Boston men including Thomas Hutchinson and John Hancock

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038243 for "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" by Phillis Wheatley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038243, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).