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 Westminster,
1731.
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| Item Description: | A concealed attack on Robert Walpole. The appendix contains "A state of one of the author's cases before the House of Lords," with separate dated titlepage, pagination and register. A reissue of the undated [1731] edition, with the imprint reset. The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious. Signatures: A-K⁸ L⁴ M² [B]-[S]⁸ a-e⁸ f². "[Price Bound 7s. 6d.]"--Price below imprint. Head- and tailpieces; initials. Page lxxiii is misprinted lxiii. With engraved frontispiece by Ger. Vander Gucht. See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43. Publisher's advertisements on pages lxxxii-lxxxiii, 1 unnumbered page at end. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy has a cancel preceding signature B, per Hennington. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 154 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 272 pages, lxxxiii, 1 unnumbered page, 1 leaf of plates : illustration ; 21 cm (8vo) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |