A letter to Cleomenes king of Sparta : from Eustace Budgell, Esq; being an answer, paragraph by paragraph, to His Spartan Majesty's royal epistle published some time since in the Daily courant ; with some account of the manners and government of the antient Greeks and Romans, and political reflections thereon.
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| Language: | English |
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Printed for A. Moore near St. Paul's, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminister,
[1731]
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| Item Description: | A defense of the author's opposition to Robert Walpole and his constituency. Below imprint in square brackets: Price Bound 7 s. 6 d. The appendix "A state of one of the author's cases before the House of Lords ..." is stated to be printed in the year 1731. Publisher's advertisements at end. Head- and tailpieces; initials. Page lxxiii is misprinted lxiii. With engraved frontispiece by Ger. Vander Gucht. Bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious; see Treadwell, Of false and misleading imprints, pages 41-43. According to Rothschild, the Introduction was printed by Samuel Richardson. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. One of the Cushing Library/Rare Books copies has a cancel before signature B, per Hennington. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 154 pages, 1 leaf, 272, lxxxiii pages, 1 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece ; 21 cm Also issued online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |