The Devil Turn'd Hermit

Bibliographical Information
Lambert de Saumery, Pierre. The Devil turn’d Hermit, or, The Adventures of Astaroth
Banish’d from Hell : A Satirical Romance. London : J. Hodges, J. Robinson, J.
Wilcox and J. Brindley, 1741.

(Quasi-)Facsimile Transcription

THE Devil turn’d Hermit: OR, THE ADVENTURES OF ASTAROTH Banish’d from Hell. A Satirical ROMANCE.

EXPOSING, With great Variety of Humour, in a Series of Conversations between that Demon and the Author,

The scandalous Frauds, lewd Amours, and devout Mockery of the Monks and Nuns; the Intrigues of Courts; the Ambition, Avarice, and Cruelty of Ministers; the Insincerity, Luxury, Prostitution, and Ingratitude of many private Characters; with other Capital Vices of the present Age.
Founded chiefly on real Facts, and interspersed with the Portraits and secret History of most of the considerable Persons that have lived in Europe within these thirty Years past.
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Translated from the Original French of Mr de M***.
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LONDON:
Printed and Sold by J. HODGES, at the Looking Glass, over-against St Magnus’s Church, London-Bridge; J. ROBINSON, at the Red Lyon, in Ludgate-Street J. WILCOX, in the Strand; and J. BRINDLEY, in New Bond-Street.

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Pot 12˚: A6 b2 B-Aa6[$3 (-A; -C; -H3; +I2 -I3, -K3, -Aa2 +Aa3)] 140 leaves, pp. [2] iii iv v vi vii vii ix x xii xii, 1 2-276 [=288]

Contents
A1r title, A1v blank, A2r –A3r advertisement, A3v -A5r preface, A5v –A6v to the reader, A7r –b2v table of contents, B1r-Aa6v text

Technical Notes

Frontispiece illustration

Copy Specific Notes

Bookplate on front pastedown signed “Joseph Pickford Esq.”, with “Sivincula gero non vincor”
On title page, “E libris Thomas Perci […?] de Moyton”

*Exercised based on the invaluable descriptive bibliography assignment of Professor Alexandra Gillespie