Research Catalog

Title

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 ...

Author

Longueville, Peter, active 1727.

Publication

Gainsborough : [P]rinted for H. Mozley, Market-Place, 1801.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bicknell, Alexander, -1796.
• Quarll, Philip.

Description

276 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (wood-engraving); 15 cm.

Alternative Title

• Unparalleled sufferings and suprising adventures of Philip Quarll.
• English hermit.

Subject

• English fiction

Note

• "With an elegant frontispiece."
• Caption and running title: The English hermit. Also published as The English hermit.
• An issue of the 1727 edition in the British Museum has the initials P.L. in the title and a dedication, in which the writer claims the authorship of the work, signed Peter Longueville. In the preface (signed P.L.) he denounces the bookseller for having substituted Edward Dorrington's name for his own. For a discussion of the authorship cf. A. Esdaile's "Author and publisher in 1727; The English hermit", in the Library, 4th series, v. 2, p. [185]-192.
• Page 253 misnumbered 235.
• Ascribed by some authorities to Alexander Bicknell.
• Signed Ed. Dorrington.

Contents

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 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 as 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 Old-Baily. -- III. How he was pardoned by K. Charles II, turned merchant, and was ship-wrecked on a desolate island on the coast of Mexico.

Call Number

NCV (Longueville, P. Hermit. 1801)

OCLC

18484621

Author

Longueville, Peter, active 1727.

Title

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 ...

Imprint

Gainsborough : [P]rinted for H. Mozley, Market-Place, 1801.

Added Author

Bicknell, Alexander, -1796.

Quarll, Philip.

Added Title

Unparalleled sufferings and suprising adventures of Philip Quarll.

English hermit.

Research Call Number

NCV (Longueville, P. Hermit. 1801)