[Rarebooks] FS: English "Robinsonade" fiction. London: 1780

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[Longueville, Peter]. THE HERMIT: OR, THE UNPARALLEL'D SUFFERINGS AND
SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF MR. PHILIP QUARELL, AN ENGLISHMAN: Who Was
Lately Discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol Merchant, Upon an
Uninhabited Island in the South-Sea [Off the Coast of Mexico]; Where He
Has Lived Above Fifty Years, Without Any Human Assistance; Still
Continues to Reside, and Will Not Come Away... The Twelfth Edition.
London: Printed for J. Wren et al. 1780. 12mo. xii,262pp. 19th c. 1/2
calf over textured cloth, blind tooled spine compartments & black calf
label. Occasional light browning & foxing.	$375.00 (trade discount
allowed)
English fiction, a "Robinsonade," first printed in 1727. There are over
30 editions by 1800. The ESTC records the 1780 edition with only 1 U.S.
holding (Yale). The true authorship of this work, purported to be by an
E. Dorrington, has also been attributed to Alexander Bicknell.

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