The congress of bees: or, political remarks on the bees swarming at St. James's. With a prognostication on that occasion, from the Smyrna coffee-house. Wherein are contain'd, lst. A surprising story of a swarm of bees, ... suppos'd to be wrote by Sir John Mandevil. 2d. A political description of hornets and wasps; translated from the works of ... Petronius Arbitur. ...

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

[London]: Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, [1728]

Publication year

1728-1728

ESTC No.

N14846

Grub Street ID

4608

Description

32p. ; 8⁰

Note

Erroneously attributed to John Arbuthnot.

Written at the time of the Congress of Soissons; probably intended, at least in part, as a satire on it.

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43