The Syracusan tyrant: or, The life of Agathocles. With some reflexions on the practices of our modern usurpers

All titles

• The Syracusan tyrant: or, The life of Agathocles. With some reflexions on the practices of our modern usurpers
• Syracusan tyrant; Life of Agathocles; Tyrant, or, The life of Agathocles
• Sicilian tyrant.

People / Organizations

• Richard Perrinchief (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for R. Royston, bookseller to the Kings most excellent Majesty, and are to be sold by S. Gape neer the Middle Temple in Fleetstreet, 1661.

Added name

Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673. Sicilian tyrant.

Publication year

1661

ESTC No.

R217261

Grub Street ID

92072

Description

[32], 263, [1] p., [1] leaf of folded plates ; 8°.

Note

Dedication signed: R. P. = Richard Perrinchief. Cf. Wing, McAlpin

Republished in 1676 as: The Sicilian tyrant

Frontispiece = folded plate, depicting "Tyranny" as a soldier, with "Perfidia" and "Crudelitas" holding a wreath of snakes above his head

An attack on Oliver Cromwell presented as a biography of Agathocles

Caption title on p. 1: The tyrant, or The life of Agathocles

Running title: The life of Agathocles.