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The Syracusan tyrant: or, The life of Agathocles : With some reflexions on the practices of our modern usurpers.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 1934:1.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1934:1.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.
- Cromwell, Oliver.
- Agathocles, Tyrant of Syracuse, 361 B.C.-289 B.C.
- Agathocles.
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
- Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660--Early works to 1800.
- Local Subjects:
- Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Controversial literature.
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages, 263 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of folded plates
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Other Title:
- Syracusan tyrant
- Life of Agathocles.
- Tyrant, or, The life of Agathocles.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for R. Royston, bookseller to the Kings most excellent Majesty, and are to be sold by S. Gape neer the Middle Temple in Fleetstreet, 1661.
- Notes:
- Dedication signed: R. P. = Richard Perrinchief. Cf. Wing, McAlpin.
- Republished in 1676 as: The Sicilian tyrant.
- Frontispiece = folded plate, depicting "Tyranny" as a soldier, with "Perfidia" and "Crudelitas" holding a wreath of snakes above his head.
- An attack on Oliver Cromwell presented as a biography of Agathocles.
- Caption title on p. 1: The tyrant, or The life of Agathocles.
- Running title: The life of Agathocles.
- Reproduction of the original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1934:1). s1989 miun a
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd ed.) P1609A.
- McAlpin. Supp. p. 197
- OCLC:
- 1085271435
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