The hermit, or, The unparalled 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 about fifty-years, without any human assistance, still continues to reside, and will not come away ...
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The seventh edition. |
| Series: | Opie collection of children's literature ;
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| Item Description: | Caption and running title: The English hermit. Preface signed: P.L. Signed at end: edition Dorrington. Attributed to Peter Longueville; also sometimes attributed to Alexander Bicknell.--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints. "With a curious frontispeice [sic] and a map of the island." "Containing, I. His canferences [sic] with those who found him; to whom he recites the most material circumstances of his life: as that he was born in the parish of St. Giles, educated by the charitable contribution of a Lady, and put 'prentice to a locksmith. II. How he left his master and was taken up w[i]th a notorious house-breaker, who was hanged; how, after his escape he went to sea a cabin-boy married a famous whore, listed himself a common soldier, turned singing master, and married three wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old Baily. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned merchant, and was shipwrecked on this desolate island on the coast of Mexico." Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | [iii]-viii, 262 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations |