3 options
Chrysal, or, The adventures of a guinea : wherein are exhibited views of several striking scenes, with curious and interesting anecdotes, of the most noted persons in every rank of life, whose hands it passed through, in America, England, Holland, Germany, and Portugal ... / by an adept.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC75 J6503 760c 1767 v.1-2
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3539.J25 C5 1766 copy 2 v.2
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3539.J25 C5 1766 v.1-4
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnstone, Charles, 1719?-1800?
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century--Humor.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century--Humor.
- Manners and customs.
- Wilkes, John, 1725-1797. Essay on woman.
- Wilkes, John.
- Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785.
- Sackville, George Germain.
- Byng, John, 1704-1757.
- Byng, John.
- Hellfire Club (founded ca. 1745).
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England).
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor) (PR3539.J25 C5 1766 copy 1)
- Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor) (PR3539.J25 C5 1766 copy 2)
- Grierson Family Books (label) (PR3539.J25 C5 1766 copy 2)
- Sanderson, Thomas (autograph) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Edition:
- The fifth edition, greatly inlarged and corrected.
- Other Title:
- Chrysal
- Adventures of a guinea
- Fingerprint:
- a-nd erof vebe 'e'f (3) 1766 (R) v.1
- ince 70to isr, 'f'n (3) 1766 (R) v.2
- r.to o-he r-s. "f"b (3) 1765 (R) v.3
- R,N; 27Y- n.he onth (3) 1765 (R) v.4
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, at Tully's-Head, near Surry-Street, in the Strand, MDCCLXVI [1766]
- Notes:
- "[A]n adept" is Charles Johnstone. Cf. ESTC.
- A thinly-veiled chronicle of contemporary scandals in political high life, ca. 1757-1763. Touches the Sackville affair, Byng's execution, half-price riots at Drury Lane, the Essay on woman, the Hellfire Club, etc. V. 1-2 issued in 1760; those 2 vols. were expanded in 2d & 3d editions; v. 3-4 continued the enlargement and were intended to accompany 4th & later eds. of v. 1-2.
- Edition statement varies: v. 1-2 each has: "The Fifth Edition, greatly inlarged and corrected." ; v. 3-4, without edition statement, is the first edition of the continuation. Cf. ESTC T128716.
- Signatures: v. 1: A¹² b⁶ B-M¹² ; v. 2: A⁶ B-N¹² O⁶ ; v. 3: pi1 A¹⁰(-A3,A4 +A3.A4) B-M¹² O² ; v. 4: A⁴ a⁶ B-M¹² N⁸ (leaf N8 blank).
- Pagination: v. 1: xxxv, [1], 264 p. ; v. 2: [12], 300 p. ; v. 3: [22], 280 p. ; v. 4: [20], 277, [3] p.
- Woodcut head-pieces and tail-piece.
- Typographical ornaments.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries PR3539.J25 C5 1766 copy 1: each vol. has bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.
- Penn Libraries PR3539.J25 C5 1766 copy 1: v. 1 has author's name supplied in pencil at head of title leaf and date transcribed in Arabic numerals in ms. in pencil at foot of title leaf.
- Penn Libraries PR3539.J25 C5 1766 copy 2 imperfect: v. 2 only.
- Penn Libraries PR3539.J25 C5 1766 copy 2 has bookplate of Archibald Elias and label of Grierson Family Books on back pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy (EC75 J6503 760c 1767) copy imperfect: v. 1-2 only.
- Culture Class Collection copy (EC75 J6503 760 1767) copy has bookplate of Thomas Sanderson.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, T119101
- ESTC, T128716
- Raven, J. British fiction, 1750-1770, 1016
- Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), I, 348
- OCLC:
- 63604337
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.