The hermit or, the unparallel'd sufferings and surprising adventures of Philip Quarll, an Englishman: who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea: where he has lived about Fifty Years, without any Human Assistance; still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing, I. His Conferences 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 was taken up with a notorious House breaker, who was hanged; how, after his Escape, he went to Sea a Cabin-Boy, married a famous Whore, lifted himself a common Soldier, turned Singing-Master, and married three Wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old Baily. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned Merchant, and was shipwrecked on this desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Longueville, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London printed for J. Wren, opposite New Exchange Buildings in the Strand; S. Crowder, H. Woodgate, J. Fuller, and J. Warcus 1783, 1783
Edition:The thirteenth edition
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Item Description:English Short Title Catalog, N2332. - Purporting to be by E. Dorrington. In fact by Peter Longueville. - Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester. - Sometimes also attributed to Alexander Bicknell
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (207,[1]p) 12°