The hermit : or, the unparalleled sufferings, and surprizing adventures, of Philip Quarll, and Englishman: who was discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island, in the South-Sea; where he lived above fifty years, without any human assistance. Containing I. His Conference with those who found him out; to whom he recites the most material circumstances of his life; as, that he was born in the parish of St. Giles, educated by the charitable contribution of a lady, and put 'prentice to a locksmith. II. How he left his master, and took up with a notorious house-breaker, who was hanged; how, after his escape, he went to sea a cabin-boy, married a famous whore, listed himself a common soldier, turned a singing-master, and married three wives, for which he was tried and condemned, at the Baily. III. How he was pardoned by K. Charles II. turned merchant, and was shipwrecked on a desolate island on the coast of Mexico. With a curious frontispiece.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longueville, Peter, fl. 1727.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quarll, Philip.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv,272p.,plate )

Edition:

The fifth edition.

Other Title:

Hermit

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the book-sellers, 1790.

Notes:

Purporting to be by E. Dorrington. In fact by Peter Longueville.

Sometimes also attributed to Alexander Bicknell.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T106469.

OCLC:

642255119