[LONGUEVILLE, Peter.] The Hermit: Or, the Unparalled Sufferings and

[LONGUEVILLE, Peter.] The Hermit: Or, the Unparalled Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman. Westminster: by J. Cluer and A. Campbell, for T. Warner and B. Creake, 1727. First edition, 8vo (193 x 115mm.) Engraved frontispiece of Philip Quarll and his monkey companion Beaufidell, engraved map of the island, engraved plate of the shipwreck. (Browned and damp-stained throughout, minor soiling, lacking front blank.) Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed and scuffed). Note: scarce. An early imitation of Robinson Crusoe. Philip Quarll, born in London and apprenticed to a locksmith, becomes a Bristol merchant but marries three wives and is convicted of bigamy. Pardoned by Charles II, he is shipwrecked on an island off the coast of Mexico and when found by the narrator ‘Ed Dorrington’, he refuses to return to England. The ‘Preface’ ends with the initials ‘P.L.’. [ESTC: T36149].

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