The hermit: or The unparalleled sufferings and surprising adventures of Philip Quarll, an Englishman. Who was lately discovered upon an uninhabited island in the South-sea, where he lived above fifty years, without any human assistance ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longueville, Peter, active 1727, supposed author.

Contributor:

Bicknell, Alexander, -1796.

Quarll, Philip.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor)

Physical Description:

vi pages, 7 unnumbered pages-263 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

Edition:

A new edition.

Other Title:

Unparalleled sufferings and surprising adventures of Philip Quarll, an Englishman

Place of Publication:

Printed at Exeter [N. H.] : by H. Ranlet, for I. Thomas, and E. T. Andrews, Faust's statue, no. 45, Newbury-street, Boston., 1795.

Notes:

Signed: Ed. Dorrington.

Signatures: A-X5 (incl. frontispiece)

Running title: The English hermit.

The preface (signed P. L. in the original edition) is signed W. L.

An issue of the 1727 edition in the British museum has the initials P. L. in the title and a dedication, in which the writer claims the authorship of the work, signed Peter Longueville. In the preface (signed P. L.) he denounces the bookseller for having substituted Edward Dorrington's name for his own. For a discussion of the authorship cf. A. Esdaile's "Author and publisher in 1727; The English hermit", in the Library, 4th ser., v. 2, p. 185-192.

Ascribed by some authorities to Alexander Bicknell.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN) W36160

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) II, p 32

Evans 28298

Contains:

English hermit.

OCLC:

249042268