• Publication: The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, A Cornish Man: Relating Particularly, His Shipwreck Near the South Pole; His Wonderful Passage Thro' a Subterraneous Cavern Into a Kind of New World; His There Meeting with a Gawry or Flying Woman, Whose Life He Preserv'd, and Afterwards Married Her; His Extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Women That Fly. Likewise a Description of This Strange Country, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of Its Inhabitants, and the Author's Remarkable Transactions Among Them. Taken from His Own Mouth, in His Passage to England, from Off Cape Horn in America, in the Ship Hector. With an Introduction, Giving an Account of the Surprizing Manner of His Coming on Board That Vessel, and his Death on His Landing at Plymouth in the Year 1739Publication Record # 535458
• Author: R. S.
• Date: 1784-00-00
• Publisher: Berwick
• Pages: 240+240
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • Published simultaneously in 2 volumes.
  • "Printed for W. Phorson, and B. Law, Ave-Maria-Lane, London"
  • "M.DCC.LXXXIV" (1784)
  • The full text and images of this Volume 1 and Volume 2 are available at Google Books sourced from The University of Michigan.
  • The full text and images of Volume 1 and Volume 2 are available at The HathiTrust Digital Library both sourced from The University of Michigan. A second set of scans also from The University of Michigan depict the same edition Volume 1 and Volume 2, but from a different copy.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 23632022

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• iii • To the Right Honourable Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland • (1751) • essay by Robert Paltock [as by R. P.]
• vii • The Introduction (The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man) • essay by Robert Paltock [as by R. S.]
• 15 • The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man • (1751) • novel by Robert Paltock [as by R. S.]
• 229 • A Table of the Names of Persons and Things Mentioned in the Two Volumes • (1751) • essay by uncredited