A discourse of drinking healths : wherein the great evil of this prevailing custom is shewn, and the obligation which lieth upon all good Christians to suppress and discountenance it to the utmost of their power / by Peter Lord Bishop of Cork and Rosse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Peter, approximately 1666-1735.

Contributor:

Hyde, John, -1728, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking customs--Early works to 1800.

Drinking customs.

Temperance--Early works to 1800.

Temperance.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor)

Headlam, Walter (former owner, 1908)

Physical Description:

viii, 9-217 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

y,ed e.ll x-y; soHe (3) 1716 (A)

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed for John Hyde bookseller ..., 1716.

Notes:

First edition.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2D⁴ 2E².

"With cancellans leaves 1 and 2 replacing A2 and 3; R1 and 2 replacing R1 and 4; 1 and 2 replacing X2 and 3."--ESTC.

Typographical ornaments.

Errata on leaf 2E2r.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's printed description of a related work (Browne's Brief examination of the Bishop of Cork's discourse) affixed to front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. ownership inscription ("From the books of Walter Headlam 4 Nov. 1908") on front free endpaper; ms. note in pencil ("T.A. Hollick Sale 19-v-80 Lot 35") in pencil on back pastedown; author's name supplied in ms. in pencil on verso of front free endpaper.

Cited in:

ESTC T31965

OCLC:

16191748