The battle of the bubbles. Shewing their several constitutions, alliances, policies, and wars; from their first suddain rise, to their late speedy decay. Also how Oceana, the grand bubble, out of envy, praying to Jupiter, to destroy Thamesis, and her sisters, had her prayer answer'd; and perish'd, her self, in the same common and miserable fate. By a stander-by

People / Organizations

• Stander-by. (Author)
• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")

Imprint

London : printed and sold by A. Moore, near St. Paul's, [1720] The second edition.; ..

Publication year

1720

ESTC No.

T100986

Grub Street ID

154900

Description

40p. ; 8°.

Note

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious. Contains a tailpiece used by William Wilkins (cf. PBSA, June 2016, p. 198)

Price from imprint: Price six-pence.

Uncontrolled note

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