The plot in a dream: or, The discoverer in masquerade : in a succinct discourse and narrative of the late and present designs of the Papists against the King and Government ; illustrated with copper plates / by Philopatris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philopatris.

Contributor:

Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popish Plot, 1678--Early works to 1800.

Popish Plot, 1678.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1688--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Penn Provenance:

Cunliffe, Henry Owen, 1826-1894 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 285 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations (engravings) ; 15 cm

Other Title:

Discoverer in masquerade

Fingerprint:

the. D.s. rsw, lipe (3) 1681 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by T. Snowden for John Hancock and Enoch Prosser, and are to be sold at their shops at the Three Bibles next Popes-Head Alley over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, and at the Rose and Crown in Swethings Alley at the East end of the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1681.

Notes:

Sometimes attributed to Charles Blount.

Wing lacks comma following "or" in line 3 of title.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown calf with gold-tooled and blind-stamped borders on boards; title and imprint date stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled designs on spine; gold-tooled cover edges; all edges marbled.

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: 1 plate wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Henry Cunliffe (1826-1894).

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. annotation "See an account of this curious little book in the Gentleman's Magazine. Sept. 1849" on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), P2598

ESTC, F7510

OCLC:

7896474