The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; with Bibliographical and Critical Notices, Collations of the Rarer Articles, and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century |
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... Richard Haw- and also the Lyfe and Passion of kins , 1619 . Saint Amphabel , translated out of Frenche and Laten in to Englishe , by John Lydgate , Monke of Bury . Saynt Albon , 1534. 4to . British Museum . The poem of Amos and Laura is ...
... Richard Haw- and also the Lyfe and Passion of kins , 1619 . Saint Amphabel , translated out of Frenche and Laten in to Englishe , by John Lydgate , Monke of Bury . Saynt Albon , 1534. 4to . British Museum . The poem of Amos and Laura is ...
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... Richard . Alimony , Lady , or the Alimony Lady , an excellent pleasant new Comedy . London , 1659. 4to . Attributed by Ant . à Wood to Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene . Rhodes , 225 , 148. Reed , 7485 , 1. 2s . Ali Pacha of Janina ...
... Richard . Alimony , Lady , or the Alimony Lady , an excellent pleasant new Comedy . London , 1659. 4to . Attributed by Ant . à Wood to Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene . Rhodes , 225 , 148. Reed , 7485 , 1. 2s . Ali Pacha of Janina ...
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... Richard . The Names of the Balyfs , Custos , Mayres , and Sherefs of ye Cite fo . London from the Tyme of Kynge Richard the first , called Cure de Lyon , which was crowned y iii day of Septebre y ' yere of our Lorde God xioLxxxix ...
... Richard . The Names of the Balyfs , Custos , Mayres , and Sherefs of ye Cite fo . London from the Tyme of Kynge Richard the first , called Cure de Lyon , which was crowned y iii day of Septebre y ' yere of our Lorde God xioLxxxix ...
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... Richard . Chro- nicle of the Kings of England , with two Continuations . London . 1730 or 3. folio , 11. 10s . The best edition , though the earlier ones , particularly that of 1641 , contain many curious documents , and several ...
... Richard . Chro- nicle of the Kings of England , with two Continuations . London . 1730 or 3. folio , 11. 10s . The best edition , though the earlier ones , particularly that of 1641 , contain many curious documents , and several ...
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... Richard Boile . 12mo . Contains 8 leaves . Addressed to Master Lional Maddison , ' & c . The dedication is dated 1593. In the British Museum are two editions , one with the date of 1623 . BALNAVES , Henry . Confession of Faith ...
... Richard Boile . 12mo . Contains 8 leaves . Addressed to Master Lional Maddison , ' & c . The dedication is dated 1593. In the British Museum are two editions , one with the date of 1623 . BALNAVES , Henry . Confession of Faith ...
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Page 11 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Page 285 - has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and the conduct of the story ; and it has had the best evidence of its merit, the general and continued approbation of mankind. Few books, I believe, have had a more extensive sale. It is remarkable, that it begins very much like the poem of Dante ; yet there was no translation of Dante when Bunyan wrote. There is reason to think...
Page 434 - A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai, and back again. Translated from a manuscript written by the Prefetto of Egypt, in company with the Missionaries de propaganda Fide at Grand Cairo. To which are added, some remarks on the origin of hieroglyphics, and the mythology of the ancient heathens.
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Page 366 - The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Drawn from the State Papers. With Six subsidiary Memoirs: — 1. Of the Calumnies concerning the Scottish Queen — 2. Memoirs of Francis II. — 3. Of Lord Darnley — 4. Of James, Earl Bothwell — 5. Of the Earl of Murray — 6. Of Secretary Maitland. By George Chalmers, FRSSA Illustrated by ten Plates of Medals, Portraits, and Views.
Page 368 - Imitations of original Drawings by Hans Holbein, in the Collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII. with biographical Tracts. Published by John Chamberlaine, Keeper of the King's Drawings and Medals.
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Page 76 - An Argument, proving, that according to the Covenant of Eternal Life, revealed in the Scriptures, Man may be translated from hence into that Eternal Life, without passing through Death, although the Human Nature of Christ himself could not be thus translated till he had passed through Death ; 1703.