A voyage round the world, or, A pocket-library : divided into several volumes ... : the whole work intermixt with essays, historical, moral, and divine, and all other kinds of learning / done into English by a lover of travels ..

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Dunton, John, 1659-1733.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 300:2.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

3 volumes

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Pocket-library.

Pocket library.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Richard Newcome, [1691]

Contents:

[v. 1.] Contains the rare adventures of Don Kainophilus, from his cradle to his 15th year (n.d.)

v. 2. Containing the rare adventures of Don Kainophilus, during his seven years prenticeship. The whole work intermixt with instructions for the management of a mans whole life. As also with particular remarks on the most noted booksellers, authors and poets, in the city of London (1691)

v. 3. Containing a further account of the juvenile rambles of Don Kainophilus, with his first project of girdling the world, &c. (1691).

Notes:

Largely autobiographical. Three vols. only were issued of a "project" of twenty-four.

Anagram of author's name, "Hid unto none," on verso of sig. B4, v. 1.

Date of publication from Wing.

Vol. 1 contains a "Poetical explanation of the frontispiece." Although no frontispiece appears in this copy, see: Nichols, J.B. Life and errors of John Dunton, 1818, p. xiii.

Reproduction of original in British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1968. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 300:2)

Cited in:

Wing V742

Arber's Term cat. II 338

OCLC:

12443179