Memoirs of the lives and characters of the illustrious family of the Boyles : containing many curious pieces of English history not extant in any other author / the whole extracted from original papers and manuscripts ; also an impartial account of the life, character and parliamentary conduct of the Right Honourable Henry Boyle, Esq. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737.

Contributor:

Esdall, James, -1755, printer.

Torbuck, John, active 1736-1742, printer.

Flin, Laurence, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boyle family.

Shannon, Henry Boyle, Earl of, 1682-1764.

Shannon, Henry Boyle.

Cork, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1566-1643.

Cork, Richard Boyle.

Boyle, Charles, Earl of Orrery, 1674-1731.

Boyle, Charles.

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- Ireland -- Dublin -- 18th century.

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor)

Webb, P. Robert (autograph, 1841) (copy 1)

Gage, Marcus (autograph) (copy 2)

Physical Description:

xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 268 pages : portrait ; 17 cm

Fingerprint:

y.s, r.r. erth moas (3) 1754 (A)

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed and sold by J. Esdall ..., J. Torbuck ..., L. Flin ... and by the booksellers, 1754.

Notes:

"The dedication signed: Philo-Patriae, i.e. Eustace Budgell."--ESTC.

Signatures: A-M¹² N².

Initials and head-pieces.

"The subscribers names.": P. ix-xii.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy 1 imperfect?: without portrait (not recorded in ESTC).

Penn Libraries copy 1 has autograph ("Nov. 1841. P. Robt. Webb.") at head of leaf A2r; bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy 2 imperfect: leaves A11-A12 (list of subscribers) wanting; without portrait (not recorded in ESTC).

Penn Libraries copy 2 has autograph ("Marcus Gage") on title leaf; 2 ms. shelf-marks (1 in ink, 1 in pencil) on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy 2 has error in printing on leaf H4r, line 14.

Cited in:

ESTC T111164

OCLC:

9375726