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

Book

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Printed Books