A Wonderful discovery of a hermit! : Being a most remarkable narrative of a citizen of London, who left his native country on account of being connected with a nobleman's daughter, and sailed in a ship bound for Italy: giving also a particlar account of his being by misfortune shipwrecked and cast on the American shore in the year 1580, and lately found well in a cave back of the Virginia mountains, aged two hundred and twenty seven years, by Capt. James Buckland and Mr. John Fielding, two gentlemen who in June, 1785, were reconnoitering the back country.

Other author Buckland, James.
Other author Fielding, John.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Boston] : Sold [by Ezekiel Russell] at the office near Liberty Pole, [1787]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 37 x 25 cm
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 19532. ^A478749
General note"The office near the Liberty Pole" was the address of the printer Ezekiel Russell. Another broadside (Bristol B6637) printed by Russell late in 1787 includes the advertisement: "... just published, a curious and remarkable account of the life, death and burial of a most wonderful and surprising hermit, lately discovered in a cave in Virginia."
General noteText in three columns; printed area, including a relief cut at head of the discovery of the hermit, measures 35.7 x 22.4 cm.
References Evans 19532
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2406
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
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. 19532).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formImaginary voyages.

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