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An address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and the members of his most honorable Privy Council. By Mr. Brothers.
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BROTHERS, Richard (1757--1824)
An address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and the members of his most honorable Privy Council. By Mr. Brothers.
London (Place), printed by E. Spragg,, [1814].
23, [1] p. ; 20.3 cm. (8º)
Signed and dated 'R. Brother, London, Oct. 25. 1814 on p. 28. Includes: 'The First Chapter Of Genesis. In Verse.' (pp. [29]--35), with a 'Note' on the final page. Richard Brothers, religious visionary and protagonist of the Anglo-Israelite hypothesis, was befriended by William Sharp the engraver. See: C. Roth, The Nephew of the Almighty: an experimental account of the life and aftermath of Richard Brothers, R.N. (London, 1933); J.F.C. Harrison, The second coming: popular millenarianism, 1780--1850, (New Brunswick, N.J., 1979); P.M. Zall, 'The cool world of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Richard Brothers, the law and the prophet', in The Wordsworth Circle, 4 (1973), pp. 25--30.
Copy Notes Ink inscriptions on title-page '... By Mr. R Brothers', and an insertion on p. 19 'which would enabled...'. Bound (7) and last in a collection of political pamphlets.
Binding Later C19th half calf, blind double-ruled borders, brown morocco-grained binder's cloth boards, blind-ruled and gilt-dotted spine, black spine-label, gilt-lettered 'Pamphlets Political. 1806.--1822.'. Numbered '73' in a series of pamphlet volumes.
Reference Number 5492
Additional Names George IV, King of Great Britain (1762--1830) - Coronation; Bible. O.T. Genesis I. English. Brothers; Great Britain. Privy Council
An address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and the members of his most honorable Privy Council. By Mr. Brothers.
London (Place), printed by E. Spragg,, [1814].
23, [1] p. ; 20.3 cm. (8º)
Signed and dated 'R. Brother, London, Oct. 25. 1814 on p. 28. Includes: 'The First Chapter Of Genesis. In Verse.' (pp. [29]--35), with a 'Note' on the final page. Richard Brothers, religious visionary and protagonist of the Anglo-Israelite hypothesis, was befriended by William Sharp the engraver. See: C. Roth, The Nephew of the Almighty: an experimental account of the life and aftermath of Richard Brothers, R.N. (London, 1933); J.F.C. Harrison, The second coming: popular millenarianism, 1780--1850, (New Brunswick, N.J., 1979); P.M. Zall, 'The cool world of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Richard Brothers, the law and the prophet', in The Wordsworth Circle, 4 (1973), pp. 25--30.
Copy Notes Ink inscriptions on title-page '... By Mr. R Brother
Binding Later C19th half calf, blind double-ruled borders, brown morocco-grained binder's cloth boards, blind-ruled and gilt-dotted spine, black spine-label, gilt-lettered 'Pamphlets Political. 1806.--1822.'. Numbered '73' in a series of pamphlet volumes.
Reference Number 5492
Additional Names George IV, King of Great Britain (1762--1830) - Coronation; Bible. O.T. Genesis I. English. Brothers; Great Britain. Privy Council