The Phenix, or, A revival of scarce and valuable pieces from the remotest antiquity down to the present times : being a collection of manuscripts and printed tracts, no where to be found but in the closets of the curious / by a gentleman who has made it his business to search after such pieces for twenty years past.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunton, John, 1659-1733.

Morphew, John, bookseller.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology--History--17th century.

Theology.

Theology--Early works to 1800.

History.

Church history.

Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603--Sources.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714--Sources.

Great Britain--Church history--16th century--Sources.

Great Britain--Church history--17th century--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Boyle, --- (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Cork and Orrery, Earl of (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Wandell, (?) (autograph) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 20 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Phenix

Revival of scarce and valuable pieces from the remotest antiquity down to the present times

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J[ohn] Morphew ..., MDCCVII-MDCCVIII [1707-1708]

Notes:

"A gentleman" is John Dunton. Cf. ESTC.

A miscellaneous collection, mainly on the history of Great Britain and on church history between the 16th and 18th centuries.

Title in v. 2: "The second volume of the Phenix, or, A revival of scarce and valuable pieces no where to be found but in the closets of the curious : with a preface giving some account of the pieces in this volume."

Title, with tract number, repeated as caption at head of first page of text.

Volumes lack designation; dated from imprint.

Individual issues numbered, but lack chronological designation.

Title page within woodcut borders.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy wanting vol. 2.

Cited in:

ESTC T144464

OCLC:

7758925