It cannot rain but it pours: or, London strow'd with rarities. Being, an account of the arrival of a white bear, at the house of Mr. Ratcliff in Bishopsgate-Street: As also of the Faustina, the celebrated Italian singing woman; and of the copper-farthing dean from Ireland. And lastly, of the wonderful wild man that was nursed in the woods of Germany by a wild beast, hunted and taken in Toyls; how he behaveth himself like a dumb creature, and is a Christian like one of us, being call'd Peter; and how he was brought to Court all in green, to the great astonishment of the quality and gentry
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- It cannot rain but it pours: or, London strow'd with rarities. Being, an account of the arrival of a white bear, at the house of Mr. Ratcliff in Bishopsgate-Street: As also of the Faustina, the celebrated Italian singing woman; and of the copper-farthing dean from Ireland. And lastly, of the wonderful wild man that was nursed in the woods of Germany by a wild beast, hunted and taken in Toyls; how he behaveth himself like a dumb creature, and is a Christian like one of us, being call'd Peter; and how he was brought to Court all in green, to the great astonishment of the quality and gentry
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London : printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXXVI. [1726]
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Robert, James, 1668 or 1669-1754, bookseller.
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- 1726
- ESTC No.
- T9689
- Grub Street ID
- 316341
- Description
- 10, [2] p. ; 8°.
- Note
- Probably started by John Arbuthnot, but completed by another hand
Doubtfully attributed to Dean Swift by Teerink in the first edition of his bibliography but ascribed to Arbuthnot et al. in the second edition
Price from imprint: price Three-Pence.
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- NUC = Arbuthnot