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A character of Don Sacheverellio, Knight of the Firebrand : in a letter to Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; Censor of Great Britain

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Type of record: Book

Title: A character of Don Sacheverellio, Knight of the Firebrand : in a letter to Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; Censor of Great Britain

Other titles: Quixote redivivus

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt SAC/D

Creator(s): Distaff, John

Additional creator(s): Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729) (Other); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) (Other); Higgins, Francis (1669-1728) (Other); Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731) (Other)

Related people: Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724

Publisher: Printed and sold by Francis Higgins; Bookmaker; and to be had of A. Baldwin, in London

Publication city: Dublin

Date(s): [1710]

Language: English

Size and medium: 16 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/281205

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001317509705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

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"To Isaac Bickerstaff Esq..." - i.e. to Sir Richard Steele.


Letter signed "John Distaff" and dated March 16, 1710 (p. 16). Attributed to Sir Richard Steele by W. Morgan. Attributed to Daniel Defoe or Jonathan Swift in Wrenn catalog. "Has been ascribed to Daniel Defoe"--Cf. Boston Public Library.


Included among the works doubtfully attributed to Swift in the first edition of H. Teerink's bibliography of that author (no. 840), but dropped from the second edition.


Two other eds. printed in same year: one, with title "Quixote redivivus," imprint "London," and signed "Jack Touchwood;" the other with imprint "Dublin: printed, and re-printed at Edinburgh in the year 1710."--Cf. Madan.


Signatures : A⁸.


Indexed in: Madan, F.F. Critical bibl. of Dr. Henry Sacheverell 146.

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