A letter to Cleomenes King of Sparta, from Eustace Budgell, Esq; being an answer, paragraph by paragraph, to His Spartan Majesty's royal epistle published some time since in the daily courant. With some account of the manners and government of the antient Greeks and Romans, and political reflections thereon

People / Organizations

• Eustace Budgell (Author)
• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for A. Moore near St. Paul's, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1731. The second edition.; ..

Publication year

1731

ESTC No.

T84942

Grub Street ID

305278

Description

xvi,154,[2],272,lxxxiii,[1]p.,plate ; 8°.

Note

'A letter to Cleomenes' has a separate divisional title-page

The appendix contains: 'A state of one of the author's cases before the House of Lords,' with separate dated titlepage, pagination and register

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious

Price in square brackets: (Price Bound 7s. 6d.)

Uncontrolled note

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