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.

People / Organizations

• Thomas Bickerton ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for Tho. Bickerton, at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row, [1719]

Publication year

1719-1719

ESTC No.

T69706

Grub Street ID

293655

Description

64p. ; 8⁰

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.

Uncontrolled note

Half-title from DFo