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The history of John Bull / edited by Alan W. Bower and Robert A. Erickson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DA496 1712 .A73 1976
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1702-1714.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- ciii, 332 pages : facsimiles ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1976.
- Notes:
- With reproductions of original title pages: Law is a bottomless pit ... London, J. Morphew, 1712; John Bull in his senses ... London, J. Morphew, 1712; John Bull still in his senses ... London, J. Morphew, 1712; An appendix to John Bull still in his senses ... London, J. Morphew, 1712; Lewis Baboon turned honest, and John Bull politician ... London, J. Morphew, 1712.
- Several editions of each of these five tracts separately appeared in 1712; they were reprinted, divided into two parts in vol. II of Pope's and Swift's Miscellanies (1727) under title: Law is a bottomless pit, or The history of John Bull. Later editions have followed this arrangement and since that time the work has usually been called by its second title: The history of John Bull.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [287]-318.
- Contains:
- Law is a bottomless pit.
- ISBN:
- 0198127197
- 9780198127192
- OCLC:
- 2538605
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