The hermit: or, The unparalleled sufferings, and surprising adventures, of Philip Quarll, an Englishman : who was discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island, in the South-Sea; where he lived about 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 apprentice to a lock-smith. 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.

Author/creator Longueville, Peter
Other author Bicknell, Alexander, -1796.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst American, from the sixth London edition.
Publication Info[Boston] : Printed at the Apollo Press, in Boston, by Joseph Belknap, MDCCXCV. [1795]
Description208 pages ; 18 cm (12mo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 28297. ^A478749
General noteCaption title: The English hermit.
General noteSigned on p. 208: Ed. Dorrington. Attributed to Peter Longueville in: Esdail, Arundell. "Author and publisher in 1727. 'The English hermit.'" The library, 4th ser., v. 2, p. 185-192. Attributed to Alexander Bicknell by Evans.
General note"On the hermit's solitude."--p. [3]-4, in verse.
References Evans 28297
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Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 28297).
Genre/formRobinsonades.
Genre/formImaginary voyages.
Genre/formPoems 1795.
Other titleEnglish hermit.

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