The Life of Philip Quarll
Subtitle: giving an account of his surprising adventures on an inunhabited island
By: with explanatory notes by P. Sadler ; embellished with a coloured plate
Contributors: Longueville, Peter, active 1727
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1833
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Children's stories; Seafaring life; Juvenile fiction; Shipwrecks
Other titles: Philip Quarll
Notes: An adaptation for children of Peter Longueville's The hermit: or The unparalleled sufferings and surprising adventures of Philip Quarll (also published under title The history of Philip Quarll). The original text was written in the first person; this adaptation is in the third person. Original text attributed to Peter Longueville in: Esdaile, Arundell. "Author and publisher in 1727. 'The English hermit.'" The Library, 4th ser., v. 2, p. 185-192.

Half-title: Philip Quarll.

Probably printed in Paris for Truchy's French and English Library. Includes footnotes giving French translations for some words and phrases.

The half-title and title leaves are cancels.

Lithographed frontispiece plate signed: Lith. de Frey.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.