The Plot in a Dream: or, the Discoverer in Masquerade

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Charles Blount (attrib.), PHILOPATRIS, Titus Oates,

The Plot in a Dream: or, the Discoverer in Masquerade

London: Printed by T. Snowden for John Hancock and Enoch Prosser. 1681.

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Discloses the “secrets” of the Popish Plot as they were revealed to the author in a series of visions and explanations from Phileroy, i.e. Titus Oates. Scarce

The volume(s) measure about 15 cm. by 9 cm. by 2.5 cm.

Each leaf measures about 144 mm. by 85 mm.

The full title reads:

The Plot in a Dream: or, The Discoverer in Masquerade. In a Succinct Discourse and Narrative of the Late and Present Designs of the Papists against the King and government. Illustrated with copper plates. By Philopatris. London: Printed by T. Snowden for John Hancock and Enoch Prosser, and are to be sold at their shops at the Three Bibles next Popes-Head Alley over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, and at the Rose and Crown in Swethings Alley at the east end of the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1681.

The volume is paginated as follows: [12], 285, [3] p. Last leaf is blank. With 3 leaves of plates. Lacking the folding plate present in some copies.

Note: Last leaf has identical watermark, paper and chain lines as main text.

The volume collates as follows:  A6, B – M12, N12.

First Edition. Reprinted 1682.

ESTC R7519 Wing P2598

Bound in contemporary speckled calf, re-backed, the spine in six compartments with five raised bands. A faded red lettering piece in the second compartment. Boards somewhat scuffed, corners split. Internally the leaves are generally clean and free of stains and foxing.

Please review the slideshow in order to gain a greater appreciation of the contents and condition.

With other testimonials is one in verse signed “T.D.” (Thomas Dangerfield?). It gives an account of the “Plot” from the witness’s point of view, with the names of the personages who were concerned in the matter so slightly concealed that “Lobed” stands for Bedloe, “Lindub” for Dublin, “Fitz-Jenny” for Jennison, “Fordstaff” for Stafford, &c.

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