Practical discourses on several subjects / by Richard Fiddes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiddes, Richard, 1671-1725.

Contributor:

Wyat, John, -approximately 1732, bookseller.

Banks Hammond, active 1711-1715, bookseller.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sermons, English.

Church of England--Sermons.

Church of England.

Genre:

Sermons.

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- England -- London -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree)

Hobart, H. L. (autograph)

Smalridge, George, 1663-1719 (autograph, September 27, 1713)

Swift, Jonatham, 1667-1745 (inscription, September 27, 1713)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 384 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by J.R. for J. Wyat ... and H. Banks ..., MDCCXIII [1713]

Notes:

Signatures: A-2B⁸.

Title page within woodcut borders; woodcut device.

Page 375 misnumbered 575.

Includes a list of subscribers on prelims.

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.

Library's copy has a ms. copy of a letter dated Sept. 27, 1713 originally written by George Smalridge to Jonathan Swift introducing and recommending the author of this work, Richard Fiddes, to him on front free endpaper, continuing through t.p. lower margin and concluding on verso.

Library's copy has had a small rectangular portion of the front free endpaper excised.

Cited in:

ESTC T174059

OCLC:

79532666