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A supplement to The Athenian oracle : being a collection of the remaining questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries : intermixt with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before publish'd : to which is prefix'd The history of the Athenian Society, and An essay upon learning / by a member of the Athenian Society.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Swift's Reading Collection PR3430.D7 A638 suppl.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunton, John, 1659-1733.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Athenian Society (London, England).
- Questions and answers.
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania (stamp) (RBC copy)
- Ryder, E (autograph)(RBC copy)
- Godfrey, J. (autograph, 1773) (Teerink copy)
- Hellewell, R. A. (autograph, Feb. 1928) (Teerink copy)
- Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)
- Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)
- Robison (inscription) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 487 pages, 15 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Athenian mercury.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Andrew Bell ..., 1710.
- Notes:
- Later reprinted as vol. 4 of the third edition of The Athenian oracle.
- The Athenian gazette (sep. nos. titled Athenian mercury) was by John Dunton and collaborators (chiefly R. Sault & Saml Wesley the elder) who styled themselves the Athenian Society.
- Engr. frontispiece has caption: An emblem of the Athenian Society 1692.
- Signatures: [A]² B-2I⁸ 2K⁴(-2K4).
- Title page within woodcut borders.
- Printed in double columns.
- Advertisements on last two pages.
- Includes index.
- 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.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T105985
- Contains:
- History of the Athenian Society.
- Essay upon all sorts of learning.
- OCLC:
- 23697425
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