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The Syracusan tyrant: or, The life of Agathocles [electronic resource] : With some reflexions on the practices of our modern usurpers
Bib ID 8273091
Format BookBook, OnlineOnline
Author
Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673
 
Online Access
Description 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 
[32], 263, [1] p., [1] leaf of folded plates 
Series

Early English books online.

Notes

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.

Reproduction of the original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.

Cited In

Wing (2nd ed.) P1609A.

McAlpin. Supp. p. 197

Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1934:1) 
Subjects Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.  |  Agathocles, Tyrant of Syracuse, 361-289 B.C.  |  Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800.
Other authors/contributors Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673. Syracusan tyrant
Also Titled

Syracusan tyrant

Life of Agathocles.

Tyrant, or, The life of Agathocles.

Sicilian tyrant.

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500 |aRepublished in 1676 as: The Sicilian tyrant.
500 |aFrontispiece = folded plate, depicting "Tyranny" as a soldier, with "Perfidia" and "Crudelitas" holding a wreath of snakes above his head.
500 |aAn attack on Oliver Cromwell presented as a biography of Agathocles.
500 |aCaption title on p. 1: The tyrant, or The life of Agathocles.
500 |aRunning title: The life of Agathocles.
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