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the Perfon known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the time of King Charles the Second. London. T. Warner. 1724. Octavo.

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The Great Law of Subordination confidered; or, the Infolence and unfufferable behaviour of Servants in England, duly inquired into. Illuftrated with a great Variety of Examples, Historical Cafes, and remarkable Stories of the Behaviour of fome particular Servants, fuited to all the feveral Arguments made ufe of, as they go on. familiar Letters. Together with a Conclufion, being an earneft and moving Remonftrance to the Housekeepers and Heads of Families in Great Britain, preffing them not to ceafe ufing their utmoft Intereft, efpecially at this Juncture, to obtain fufficient Laws for the effectual Regulations of the Manners and Behaviour of their Servants. As alfo a Propofal, containing fuch Heads or Conftitutions as would effectually answer this great End, and bring Servants of every Clafs to a juft and yet not a grievous Regulation. S. Harding and the London Bookfellers. 1724. Octavo.-I doubt if this were ever re-published.

A Tour through the whole Ifland of Great Britain, divided into Circuits or Journies. Giving a particular and diverting Account of whatever is Curious and worth Obfervation, viz. First, A Description of the Principal Cities and Towns, their Situation, Magnitude, Government and Commerce. Second, their Cuftoms, Manners, Speech; as alfo the Exercifes, Diverfions and Employments of the People. Third, The Produce and Improvement of the Lands, the Trade and Manufactures. Fourth, The Sea Ports, and Fortifications, the Courfe of Rivers, and the Inland Navigation. Fifth, The Public Edifices, Seats and Palaces of the Nobility and Gentry. With ufeful Obfervations upon the whole. Particularly fitted for the reading of fuch as desire to travel over the Island. By a Gentleman. London. G.Strahan, 1724. Oavo. Vol. 2d, 1725; Vol. 3d, 1727. A Fourth Volume was added to the Edition, 1732, which is faid to have been by Richardfon. There was an Eighth Edition in 1778. This Tour is often confounded with a Journey through England and Scotland, in Familiar Letters from a Gentleman here to his Friend abroad, which was Published about the fame time by Pemberton Brown. And by the Author of this Journey was written, A Journey through the Auftrian Netherlands, which was publified in 1725, and is often attributed to De Foe by those

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A New Voyage round the World, by a Course never failed before. Being a Voyage undertaken by fome Merchants who afterwards propofed the setting up an East India Company in Flanders. Illuftrated with Copper-plates. London. A. Bettefworth, 1725. Octavo.

The Political Hiftory of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern: in two Parts. Part First, containing a State of the Devil's Circumftances, and the various Turns of his Affairs, from his Expulfion out of Heaven to the Creation of Man; with Remarks on the feveral Miftakes concerning the Reason and Manner of his Fall. Alfo his Proceedings with Mankind ever fince Adam to the first planting of the Chrif tian Religion in the World. Part Second, containing his more private Conduct, down to the prefent Times. His Government, his Appearances, his Manner of Working, and the Tools he works with. London, T. Warner, 1726. Octavo. Second Edition, 1727; Third Edition, 1734; Fourth Edition, 1739; and Sixth Edition, 1770.-When this was a fecond time printed, it was entitied fimply The History of the Devil. "This Second Edition, fays De Foe, notwith ftanding a large Impreffion of the firft, is a Certificate from the World of its general Acceptation. The wife World has been pleafed with it, the merry World has been diverted with it, and the ignorant World has been taught by it; and none but the malicious part of the World has been offended at it: Who can wonder, that when the Devil is not pleased, his Friends fhould be angry!" Preface. Yet, in fubfequent Editions the original Title is reftored.

The Compleat English Tradefman; in Familiar Letters, directing him in all the feveral Parts and Progreffions of Trade, viz.-1. Of acquainting him with Bufiness during his Apprenticeship.-2. Of writing to Correfpondents in a trading Style.-3. Of Diligence and Application, as the Life of all Business. -4. Cautions against Over-trading.-5. Of the ordinary Occafions of a Tradefman's Ruin; fuch as expenfive Living, too early Marrying, innocent Diverfions, too much Credit, being above Bufinefs, dangerous Partnerfhips, &c.-6. Directions in feveral Diftreffes of a Tradefman when he comes to Fail.-7. Of Tradefmen compounding with other Tradefmen, and why they are fo particularly fevere upon one another.-8. Of Tradesmen ruining one another by Rumours and Scandal.-9. Of the cuftomary

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cuftomary Frauds of Trade, and particularly of trading Lies. -10. Of Credit, and how it is only to be fupported by Honefty.-11. Of punctual paying Bills, and thereby maintaining Credit.-12. Of the Dignity and Honour of Trade in England, more than in other Countries. The fecond Edition. To which is added a Supplement, containing: 1. A Warning against Tradefmen's borrowing Money upon Intereft.-2. A Caution against that deftructive Practice of drawing and remitting, as alfo difcounting Promiffary Bills, merely for a fupply of Cafh.--3. Directions for the Tradefman's Accounts, with brief but plain Examples, and Specimens for Book-keeping.-4. Of keeping a Duplicate or Pocket Lodger, in cafe of Fire. Charles Rivington. 1727 Octavo.

The Compleat English Tradefman, Vol. II. In two Parts. Part Firft, directed chiefly to the more experienced Tradefmen; with Cautions and Advices to them after they are thriven, and supposed to be grown Rich, viz. 1. Against running out of their Bufinefs into needlefs Projects and dangerous Adventures, no Tradefman being above Disaster.

2. Against oppreffing one another by engroffing, underfelling, combination in Trade, &c.-3. Advices that when he leaves off his Business he fhould part Friends with the World; the great Advantages of it; with a Word of the fcandalous Character of a purfe-proud Tradefman.-4. Against being litigious and vexatious, and apt to go to Law for Trifles; with fome reasons why Tradeímen's Differences fhould, if poffible, be all ended by Árbitration.-Part Second: Being ufeful Generals in Trade, defcribing the Principles and Foundation of the Home Trade of Great Britain; with large Tables of our Manufactures, Calculations of the Product, Shipping, Carriage of Goods by Land, Importation from Abroad, Confumption at Home, &c. By all of which the infinite Number of our Tradefmen are employed, and the general Wealth of the Nation raised and increafed. The whole calculated for the Ufe of all our inland Tradefmen, as well in the City as in the Country. Charles Rivington, 1727.-The title of The Compleat English Tradefman is not altogether new: For, there was Entered at Stationers-Hall for John Dunton, on the fixth of December, 1683, The Pleafant Art of Money-catching; being the fecond and last part of The Compleat Tradefman.

An Effay on the Hiftory and Reality of Apparitions." Being an Account of what they are, and what they are not :

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as alfo how we may diftinguish between the Apparitions of good and evil Spirits, and how we ought to behave to them. With a great Variety of surprising and diverting Examples never published before. J. Roberts, 1727. Octavo.

A Syftem of Magic; or, a Hiftory of the Black Art. Being an Hiftorical Account of Mankind's most early Dealings with the Devil; and how the Acquaintance on both Sides first begun. J. Roberts, 1727, and for A. Millar, 1728.This book was entered at Stationers Hall, on the thirtieth of December, 1726, for John Watts, who probably affigned his intereft to Roberts. This was called a Compleat Syftem of Magic, &c. 1729.

A Treatise concerning the Ufe and Abuse of the Marriage Bed: fhewing, 1. The Nature of Matrimony, its Sacred Original, and the true meaning of its Inftitution.-2. The grofs Abufe of Matrimonial Chaftity, from the wrong Notions that have poffeft the World.-3. The diabolical Practice of attempting to prevent Child-bearing by phyfical preparations. -4. The fatal Confequences of clandeftine forced Marriages, through the Perfuafion, Intereft, or Influence of Parents and Relations to wed the Perfon they have no Love for, but oftentimes an Averfion to.-5. Of Unequal Matches as to the Difproportion of Age, and how fuch Ways occafion a Matrimonial Whoredom.-6. How married Perfons may be guilty of Conjugal Lewdnefs, and that a Man may in effect make a Whore of his own Wife. Also many other Particulars of Family Concern. T. Warner, 1729. Octavo. This book appeared about the fame time with this title: Conjugal Lewdnefs; or, Matrimonial Whoredom.

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A Plan of the English Commerce: Being a compleat Profpect of the Trade of this Nation, as well the Home Trade as the Foreign. In three Parts. Part Firft, Containing a View of the prefent magnitude of the English Trade, as it Refpects, 1. The Exportation of our own Growth and Manufacture. -2. The Importation of Merchant Goods from Abroad.3. The prodigious Confumption of both at Home.-Part Second, Containing an Answer to that great and important Question now depending, Whether our Trade, and efpecially our Manufactures, are in a declining condition, or no? -Part Third, Containing feveral Propofals, entirely new, for extending and improving our Trade, and promoting the Confumption of our Manufactures in Countries wherewith we have hitherto had no Commerce. Humbly offered to the Confideration of King and Parliament. Charles Rivington,

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vington, 1728-the fecond Edition, 1730;-the third Edition, 1737. Octavo.--The laft Edition is faid by Rivington, the original Publisher who knew the Author, to be by the late ingenious Mr. Daniel De Foe. Rivington calls the Edition of 1737 the Second; having forgotten that he had published the Second Edition in 1730.

Memoirs of a Cavalier; or, a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany and the Wars in England, from the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. Written above fourfcore Years ago by an English Gentleman who ferved firft in the Army of Guftavus Adolphus, the glorious King of Sweden, till his death; and after that in the Royal Army of King Charles I. from the Beginning of the Rebellion to the End of that War. Leeds, for James Lifter, &c.-There was a London Edition for A. Bell. But my researches have not enabled me to afcertain the time when this interefting Work was first published, ОRavo.

There is a Pindarick Ode prefixed to the fecond Volume of the fecond Edition of the Athenian Oracle, in 1704, and figned D. F. John Dunton complains in his Life and Errors, that De Foe had afterwards reclaimed this Ode, as his property, though he had formerly given it as a present to the Athenian Society.

A Lift of Books which are fuppofed to be De Foe's

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HE Comical Hiftory of the Life and Death of Mumper, of Charles the Seconds per, Generaliffimo of King Charles the Second's Dogs. By Helioftropolis, Secretary to the Emperor of the Moon. 3d June, 1704. Octavo.

An Hiftorical Account of the Sufferings of the Epifcopal Clergy in Scotland. 1707. Octavo.

The Fifteen Comforts of an honeft Scotchman.

Octavo.

1707.

The Quaker's Sermon on the Union being the only Ser mon preached and printed by that Sort of People, on that Subject. August 21ft, 1707. Octavo.

The Union Proverb:

If Skiddaw has a Cap,

Scruffel wots full well of that:

Setting forth, 1. The Neceffity of uniting;-2. The good Confequences of uniting;-3. The happy Union of England and Scotland, in Cafe of a Foreign Invasion. London. Morphew, 12th March, 1707-8.

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