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The hermit, or, The unparalled [sic] sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman : who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea, where he has lived above fifty years, without any human assistance, still continues to reside, and will not come away ... With a curious map of the island, and other cuts.

Accession number
PML 84668
Creator
Longueville, Peter, active 1727.
Published
Westminster : Printed by J. Cluer and A. Campbell, for T. Warner ... and B. Creake ..., 1727.
Credit line
Gift; Lilly Library; 1983.
Notes
Sometimes ascribed to Edward Dorrington or Alexander Bicknell. For Longueville attribution, see A. Esdaile, "Author and publisher in 1727; The English hermit," Library, 4th series, v.2, p. 185-192.
Issue 1. See Esdaile.
Description
[3], vi-xi, [5], 264 p., [1] plate : ill. (engraving) ; 20 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Lord Cadogan; Elisabeth Ball duplicate.
Binding
Rebound.
Classification
Department