Shelfmark
Sa2.5.20(01)
Author
Title
A duel and no duel; or, the skirmish of the West-India heroes : A burlesque account of the cause, rise and progress of the quarrel between Sir C-r O-le, and Governor T-ey, and the assault on his excellency, in his own house, in Spanish Town, on the 22d of July last. With the letters that past; the remarkable trial; and other incidents of the extraordinary adventure that happen'd to our homeward-bound knight errants / By an Honest Sailor.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for G. Foster, at the White Horse, on Ludgate Hill, 1743.
Physical description
26p ; 20cm. (8vo.)
Note
Verse.
Note
On Sir Chaloner Ogle's assault on Edward Trelawny, governor of Jamaica.
Note
Signatures: A-C4.
Note
Price from imprint: Price Six-Pence.
Note
Bound with nine other items.
Note
Previously: GUT.B.2.1(1).
Note
Ms. contents list on flyleaf.
Note
Slip from Pickering & Chatto, London, with "Eton. Very rare" in pencil.
Note
Letter on Pickering & Chatto headed paper inside back cover, dated May 21st 1900, stating this is a rare Eton tract, bound with other quaint material.
Citation/references note
Foxon, D494; ESTC N2317
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1985. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 998, no. 2).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims.
Provenance
Stamp of Manley Sims, Eton Collection.
Provenance
Letter inside back cover stating this was the Duke of Cambridge's copy.
Binding
19th? century half brown calf; blue and brown marbled paper covered boards; spine title: "Art of poetry Gymnasiad wanderer &c".
Subject
Epic poetry, English Early works to 1800.
Subject
Trials (Assault and battery) Poetry Jamaica.
Added entry--name
Manley Sims, F. former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B25989