The capacity and extent of the human understanding : exemplified in the extraordinary case of Automathes, a young nobleman who was accidentally left in his infancy upon a desolate island and continued nineteen years in that solitary state separate from all human society : a narrative abounding with many surprizing occurrences both useful and entertaining to the reader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirkby, John, 1705-1754.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Mendenhall, John C. (donor)

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 18 cm (12mo)

Edition:

The second edition.

Other Title:

History of Automathes.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by George Faulkner, 1746.

Notes:

Dedication signed: John Kirkby.

"Largely borrowed from the History of Autonous (1736)" -- Dict. nat. biog.

Running title: The history of Automathes.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN) T163832

Beasley, J.C. Prose fiction pub. in England, 1740-1749, 171a

OCLC:

16109926