Libellus: or, A Brief Sketch of the Kingdom of Gotham. Containing Observations respecting its King, Princes, Nobles, and Inferior Senators: Its Mode of Election; The Duration of Its Parliaments; Its Ministers of State, Judges, and Other Professors of the Law: Customs of the People, Their Dress, and Amusements; Their Agricultural Regulations, Commercial Pursuits, and the Natural Productions of Their Country: Their Well-Managed Police; Their Ecclesiastical Polity, and Their System of Politics. Under the Cover of a little Fiction, a great deal of Truth may often be conveyed
| Title | Libellus: or, A Brief Sketch of the Kingdom of Gotham. Containing Observations respecting its King, Princes, Nobles, and Inferior Senators: Its Mode of Election; The Duration of Its Parliaments; Its Ministers of State, Judges, and Other Professors of the Law: Customs of the People, Their Dress, and Amusements; Their Agricultural Regulations, Commercial Pursuits, and the Natural Productions of Their Country: Their Well-Managed Police; Their Ecclesiastical Polity, and Their System of Politics. Under the Cover of a little Fiction, a great deal of Truth may often be conveyed |
| Year for Search | 1798 |
| Date Published | 1798 |
| Publisher | J. Jordan and W. Glendinning |
| Place Published | London |
| Annotation | Eutopia. Society in which everything and everybody works or behaves as they are ideally expected to work or behave, which functions as a satire on contemporary Britain. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 441-76. |
| Holding Institutions | L, PSt, VUW |
| Full Text | 1798 Libellus: or, A Brief Sketch of the Kingdom of Gotham. Containing Observations respecting its King, Princes, Nobles, and Inferior Senators: Its Mode of Election; The Duration of Its Parliaments; Its Ministers of State, Judges, and Other Professors of the Law: Customs of the People, Their Dress, and Amusements; Their Agricultural Regulations, Commercial Pursuits, and the Natural Productions of Their Country: Their Well-Managed Police; Their Ecclesiastical Polity, and Their System of Politics. Under the Cover of a little Fiction, a great deal of Truth may often be conveyed. London: J. Jordan and W. Glendinning. Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 441-76. L, PSt, VUW Eutopia. Society in which everything and everybody works or behaves as they are ideally expected to work or behave, which functions as a satire on contemporary Britain. |
