The hermit, or, The unparalleled sufferings and surprising adventures of Philip Quarll, an Englishman : who was discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island, in the South-Sea, where he lived about fifty years, without any human assistance ...
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Opie collection of children's literature ;
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| Item Description: | Signed at end: edition Dorrington. Attributed to Peter Longueville; also sometimes attributed to Alexander Bicknell.--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints. "Containing, I. His conference with those who found him out; 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 apprentice to a locksmith. II. How he left his master, and took up with a notorious house-breaker, who was hanged; how, after his escape, he went to sea as cabin-boy, married a famous whore, listed himself a common soldier, turned a singing master, and married three wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old Bailey. III. How he was pardoned by K. Charles II. turned merchant, and was shipwrecked on a desolate island on the coast of Mexico." Includes publisher's advertisements: [7] pages at end. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 269 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations |