The Sicilian tyrant: or, The life of AgathoclesDT

All titles

• The Sicilian tyrant: or, The life of AgathoclesDT
• Syracusan tyrant
• Life of Agathocles; Syracusan tyrant, or, the life of Agathocles

People / Organizations

• Richard Perrinchief (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by J. Grover for R. Royston, bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty, 1676.

Publication year

1676

ESTC No.

R218

Grub Street ID

92715

Description

[16], 278 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 8°.

Note

Preface signed: Rich. Perrinchiefe

Originally published in 1661 as: The Syracusan tyrant (Wing P1608)

"Intended as a parallel to O. Cromwell"--Lowndes

With a title-page vignette and a frontispiece portrait (A1v)

Running title reads: The Syracusan tyrant, or, the life of Agathocles

With a comma after "or" in title and factotum of acorns on sig. A3r; variant 1 without the comma; variant 2 with factotum of flowers

Copy filmed at "Early English Books", reel 395 has the titlepage,frontispiece, plate, and pp. 100-115 and 230-265 from L copy spliced in at end.