The famous and renowned history of Hector, Prince of Troy, or The three destructions of Troy : the first and second time, by the valiant Hercules, the third, and last time, by the Greeks, under the leading of King Agamemnon, for Paris, the son of King Priamus, stealing away fair Hellen of Greece, wife to King Menelaus : with the noble actions and atchievements of the redoubted Hector, Achilles, Ajax, the Queen of the Amazons, and divers other valiant princes, and how they came by their deaths : how Troy was taken by the means of a wooden horse, with armed men in its belly, King Priamus slain, his queen and daughters made prisoners, &c., and the city consumed with fire, the unfortunate end of many noble Greeks, and other matters, pleasant and delightful to the reader.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heroes.

Mythology, Greek.

Mythology, Classical.

Chapbooks.

Troy (Extinct city)--Legends.

Troy (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

24 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for Charles Bates, at the Sun and Bible in Pye-Corner, [1700?]

Notes:

Publication date supplied from Wing F358A.

Bates worked at the Sun and Bible between 1709 and 1714, as a "dealer in ballads, broadsides, and all kinds of cheap and popular literature. Most of this was printed without any date ..."--Plomer, H.R. et al. A dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668-1725 (Oxford, 1922), p. 26.

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OCLC:

13604060