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The dreamer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3539.K73 D7 1754 copy 2
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3539.K73 D7 1754
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, William, 1685-1763.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, xxxii, 33-240, xxviii, 14 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- M.HE ts,I t.s, amar (3) 1754 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for W. Owen ..., MDCCLIV [1754]
- Notes:
- "Anonymous. By William King."--ESTC.
- "A political and religious satire in a series of allegorical essays, the allusions purportedly explained in a 14 page 'Advertisement, by the bookseller' following the index."--ESTC.
- Contains the first appearance in print of Swift's The answer. Cf. Teerink, H., Bibliography of the writings of Jonathan Swift (2nd ed.), no. 1623.
- Signatures: [A]² B-2N⁴ 2O².
- Woodcut title vignette.
- Typographical ornaments.
- Errata on leaf 2O1v.
- Bookseller's advertisement on leaf 2O2.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy 2 has a few ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown; a few ms. marginal marks in red pencil; early ms. annotation on leaf K4v.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T136704
- Raven, J. British fiction, 1750-1770, 279
- OCLC:
- 6621861
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