It cannot rain but it pours : or, London strow'd with Rarities. Being, An Account of the Arrival of a White Bear, at the House of Mr. Ratcliff in Bishopsgate-Street: As also of the Faustina, the celebrated Italian Singing Woman; And of the Copper-Farthing Dean from Ireland. And Lastly, Of the wonderful Wild Man that was nursed in the Woods of Germany by a Wild Beast, hunted and taken in Toyls; how he behaveth himself like a dumb Creature, and is a Christian like one of us, being call'd Peter; and how he was brought to Court all in Green, to the great Astonishment of the Quality and Gentry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peter, the wild boy.

Peter.

Physical Description:

10 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXXVI. [1726]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Probably started by John Arbuthnot, but completed by another hand.

Doubtfully attributed to Dean Swift by Teerink in the first edition of his bibliography but ascribed to Arbuthnot et al. in the second edition.

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T9689.

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