HIMSELF HIS WORST ENEMY: OR, PHILIP DUKE OF WHARTON'S CAREER.
"The scorn and wonder of our days." —POPE. BYALFRED P. BROTHERHEAD, LIBRARIAN.
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO
1871.Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by WILLIAM BROTHERHEAD, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PHILADELPHIA: COLLINS, PRINTER.
Dedication.
I DEDICATE THIS
MY FIRST WORK
TO
My Dear father and mother:
AND
ALSO
TO
Samuel Croft, Esq.
AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF ESTEEM
FOR
HIS
UNSULLIED HONOR
AND
INTEGRITY,
AND AS A
GRATEFUL
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF HIS
UNVARYING KINDNESS
TO MY FATHER.
PREFACE.
THIS, my first book, is presented to the public with the usual forebodings of all authors. All I claim for it is a fair and candid perusal, and an impartial criticism. For the historical data I must thank various and many historians; for all else I am responsible.
A. P. B.
BROTHERHEAD'S LIBRARY:205 SOUTH THIRTEENTH STREET.
PHILADELPHIA, January 1, 1871.
