The dumb philosopher; or Great-Britain's wonder, containing I. A faithful and very surprizing account how Dickory Cronke, a tinner's son in the county of Cornwal, was born dumb, and continued so for 58 years; and how some days before he died, he came to his speech: with memoirs of his life, and the manner of his death. II. A declaration of his faith and principles in religion: with a collection of select meditations, composed in his retirement. III. His prophetical observations upon the affairs of Europe, more particularly of Great-Britain, from 1720, to 1729. The whole extracted from his original papers, and confirmed by unquestionable authority. To which is annexed. his elegy, written by a young Cornish gentleman, of Exeter Coll. in Oxford; with an epitaph by another hand

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  • The dumb philosopher; or Great-Britain's wonder, containing I. A faithful and very surprizing account how Dickory Cronke, a tinner's son in the county of Cornwal, was born dumb, and continued so for 58 years; and how some days before he died, he came to his speech: with memoirs of his life, and the manner of his death. II. A declaration of his faith and principles in religion: with a collection of select meditations, composed in his retirement. III. His prophetical observations upon the affairs of Europe, more particularly of Great-Britain, from 1720, to 1729. The whole extracted from his original papers, and confirmed by unquestionable authority. To which is annexed. his elegy, written by a young Cornish gentleman, of Exeter Coll. in Oxford; with an epitaph by another hand
  • Great-Britain's wonder
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Imprint
London : printed for Tho. Bickerton, at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row, 1719.
Added name
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.; Bickerton, Thomas, bookseller.
Publication year
1719
ESTC No.
T69706
Grub Street ID
293655
Description
64p. ; 8°.
Note
Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Chalmers, Wilson, Lee, Trent, Hutchins, Moore, Novak ("not certainly")). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions

With a half-title

Price from imprint: (Price 1 s.); Reissued with title page altered, adding "The second edition"

Signatures: A-H]4.
Uncontrolled note
Half-title from DFo