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A letter to Cleomenes King of Sparta, from Eustace Budgell, Esq; : being an answer, paragraph by paragraph, to His Spartan Majesty's royal epistle published some time since in the Daily Courant : with some account of the manners and government of the antient Greeks and Romans, and political reflections thereon
Title
A letter to Cleomenes King of Sparta, from Eustace Budgell, Esq; : being an answer, paragraph by paragraph, to His Spartan Majesty's royal epistle published some time since in the Daily Courant : with some account of the manners and government of the antient Greeks and Romans, and political reflections thereon.
Publication
London : Printed for A. Moore near St. Paul's, and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1731.
Physical Description
xvi, 154 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 272 pages, lxxxiii, 1 unnumbered page, 1 leaf of plates : illustration ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
A concealed attack on Robert Walpole.
The appendix contains 'A state of one of the author's cases before the House of Lords,' with separate dated titlepage, pagination and register.
A reissue of the undated [1731] edition, with the imprint reset.
The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.
Signatures: A-K⁸ L⁴ M² [B]-[S]⁸ a-e⁸ f².
"[Price Bound 7s. 6d.]"--Price below imprint.
See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43
Publisher's advertisements on pages lxxxii-lxxxiii, 1 unnumbered page at end.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Ilchester.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
English short title catalogue, T84736
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Advertisements.
Publishers' advertisements.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance).
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Annotations (Provenance) - 19th century.
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England London.
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