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greatest curiosities contain'd in that book. To which is added, Horace's art of poetry, in Latin. By the author of the Journey to London. [William KING, LL.D.] Humbly inscrib'd to the Honourable Beef Steak Club. London: N. D. Octavo. Pp. 4. b. t. 160.* [Bodl.] ART (the) of cookery, made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published. Containing, I. Of roasting, boiling, &c. II. Of made dishes. III. Read this chapter, and you will find how expensive a French cooks sauce is. IV. To make a number of pretty little dishes fit for a supper, or side-dish, and little cornerdishes for a great table; and the rest you have in the chapter for Lent. V. To dress fish. VI. Of soops and broths. VII. Of puddings. VIII. Of pies. IX. For a Fast-dinner, a number of good dishes, which you may make use for a table at any other time. X. Directions for the sick. XI. For

captains of ships. XII. Of hog's puddings, sausages, &c. XIII. To pot and make hams, &c. XIV. Of pickling. XV. Of making cakes, &c. XVI. Of cheesecakes, creams, jellies, whip syllabubs, &c. XVII. Of made wines, brewing, French bread, muffins, &c. XVIII.Jarring cherries, and preserves, &c. XIX. To make anchovies, vermicella, ketchup, vinegar, and to keep artichokes, French-beans, &c. XX. Of distilling. XXI. How to market, and the seasons of the year for butcher's meat, poultry, fish, herbs, roots, &c. and fruit. XXII. A certain cure for the bite of a mad dog. By Dr. Mead. By a lady. [Hannah GLASSE.]

London: MDCCXLVII.

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ART (the) of criticism; as exemplified in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the most eminent English poets. [By Robert POTTER.]

London: MDCCLXXXIX.

Octavo. Pp. 250. b. t.* [Dyce Cat., ii. 199.] ART (the) of dancing. A poem. In three canto's. [By Soame JENYNS.] London: 1729. Octavo.* [Jenyns' Works, i. 1.]

ART (the) of delivering written language; or, an essay on reading. In which the subject is treated philosophically as well as with a view to practice. [By William COCKIN.]

London: M. DCC.LXXV. Octavo. Pp. xx. 152. [Gent. Mag., June 1801, p. 575-6.]

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Dedication signed J. D. B. [Bodl.]

ART (the) of eloquence, a didactic poem.
Book the first. [By Richard POL-
WHELE.]

London 1785. Quarto. Pp. vi. 45. v.
A second edition of the above work, and
with the author's name, was published in
1786, under the title of The English orator.
A didactic poem.
Book the first. [Boase

and Courtney, Bib. Corn., ii. 507.]

ART (the) of etching and aqua tinting, strictly laid down by the most approved masters; sufficiently enabling amateurs in drawing to transmit their work to posterity; or, as amusements among their circle of friends. To which is added, the most useful liquid colours, well adapted for staining and colouring the above, &c. &c. With a specimen of landscape and profile. By F. Yrubslips. [Francis SPILSBURY.] London: 1794. Duodecimo.* [Bodl.] ART (the) of governing by partys: particularly in religion, in politics, in parliament, on the bench, and in the ministry; with the ill effects of partys on the people in general, the king in particular, and all our foren affairs, as well as on our credit and trade, in peace or war, &c. [By John TOLAND.] London: 1701. Octavo. [W.]

ART (the) of invigorating and prolonging life... to which is added the pleasure of making a will. [By Dr. KITCHINER.] The fourth edition.

London: 1822. Duodecimo. Pp. 336. [Manchester Free Lib. Cat., p. 410.]

ART (the) of jugling or legerdema ine By S. R. [Samuel RID.]

London: 1612. Octavo. 24 leaves. B. L. [W., Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

Often, but erroneously, ascribed to Robert Greene.

ART (the) of living in London [By James SMITH.]

London [W.]

a poem.

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ART (the) of living in London; or a caution how gentlemen, countreymen, and strangers, drawn by occasion of businesse, should dispose of themselves in the thriftiest way; not onely in the citie, but in all other populous places. As also, a direction to the poorer sort, that come thither to seeke their fortunes. By H. P. [Henry PEACHAM.] [London.] 1642. Quarto. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., p. 1809.]

A

ART (the) of love in two books.
Written both to men and ladies.
new poem. [By Charles HOPKINS.]
London: 1700. Octavo. Pp. 98.* [Brit.
Mus.]

A second book was published in the same year.

ART (the) of making catalogues of libraries; or, a method to obtain in a short time a most perfect, complete, and satisfactory printed catalogue of the British Museum Library, by a reader therein. [Professor Andrea CRESTADORO, now chief Librarian of the Manchester Public Free Library.] London: 1856. Octavo. [N. and Q., Nov. 1865, p. 395.]

ART (the) of needle-work, from the earliest ages, including some notices of the ancient tapestries. [By Mrs E. STONE.] Edited by the Right Hon. the Countess of Wilton. Third edition. London 1841. Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

ART (the) of poetry on a new plan: illustrated with a great variety of examples from the best English poets; and of translations from the ancients: together with such reflections and critical remarks as may tend to form in our youth an elegant taste, and render this study of this part of the Belles Lettres more rational and pleasing. [Compiled by NEWBERY, the publisher of the work, but revised, altered, and enlarged by Dr GOLDSMITH.]

London : 1762. Duodecimo.
Lowndes, Bibliog. Man. p. 1901.
Life of Goldsmith, vol. i. p. 389.]

[W., Prior's

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ART (the) of preserving the sight unim paired to an extreme old age; and of re-establishing and strengthening it when it is become weak: with instruc. tions how to proceed in accidental cases, which do not require the assistance of professional men, and the mode of treatment proper for the eyes during and immediately after the small pox. To which are added, Observations on the inconveniences and dangers arising from the use of common spectacles, &c. &c. By an experienced oculist. [G. H. BEER, M.D.]

London: 1813. Duodecimo. 234.* [Watt, Bib. Brit. Bodl.]

Pp. xvi.

ART (the) of restoring; or, the piety and probity of General Monk in bringing about the last restoration, evidenc'd from his own authentick letters: with a just account of Sir Roger, who runs parallel as far as he can. In a letter to a minister of state at the Court of Vienna. [By John TOLAND.]

London: 1714. Octavo. Pp. viii. 48.* [Adv. Lib.]

:

ART (the) of riding, set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent horssemen wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present worke hath put the same in practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby : without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the Chaine or Cauazzan, the Trench, and the Martingale: written by a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art. [John ASTLEY.]

Imprinted at London, by Henrie Denham. 1584. Quarto. Pp. 8. 79.* [Bodl.] The letter missive signed G. B.

By

ART (the) of skating; with plain directions for the acquirement of the most difficult and elegant movements. Cyclos, a member of the Glasgow skating club. [George ANDERSON.] Glasgow MDCCCLII. Octavo. Pp. vii. 80.* [Bodl.]

The second edition, London, 1868, has the author's name.

ART (the) of speaking. Containing, I. An essay; in which are given rules for expressing properly the principal passions and humours, which occur in reading, or public speaking; and II.

Lessons taken from the ancients and moderns (with additions and alterations, where thought useful) exhibiting a variety of matter for practice; the emphatical words printed in italics; with notes of direction referring to the Essay. To which are added, a table of the lessons; and an index of the various passions and humours in the Essay and Lessons. [By James BURGH.] The seventh edition.

London: M.DCC.XCII. Octavo. Pp. 373. b. t. 16.* [Nichols, Lit. Anec., ii. 265.]

ART (the) of thriving, or the plaine path

way to preferment. Together with the mystery and misery of lending and borrowing. Consider it seriously, examine it judiciously, remember it punctually, and thrive accordingly. Published for the common good of all sorts, &c. [By Thomas POWELL.] London: 1635. Octavo.*

ART (the) of wheedling. [By Richard HEAD.]

1679. Octavo. [Bliss' Cat., 136.] ARTE (the) of English poesie. Contriued into three bookes: the first of poets and poesie; the second of proportion, the third of ornament. [By George PUTTENHAM.]

London: 1589. Quarto. Pp. 258.* [Wood,
Athen. Oxon., 1. 742.]

ARTEMUS WARD [Charles Farrer BROWNE], his book. Being the confessions and experiences of a showman. London: 1865. Octavo. Pp. viii. 168.* Two other editions appeared in the same year, one edited by George Augustus Sala, and the other by the editor of the Big low Papers. The author's name is given in the Introduction to each of them.

ARTES (the) of logike and rethorike, plainlie set foorth in the English tounge, easie to be learned and practised together with examples for the practise of the same for methode, in the gouernement of the familie, prescribed in the Word of God. And

for the whole in the resolution or open-
ing of certayne partes of Scripture,
according to the same. [By Dudley
FENNER.]

N. P. [Middleburgh.] 1584. Quarto.
No pagination. [Bodl.]

ARTHUR. By the author of "Anne
Dysart," &c. &c. [Christiana Jane
DOUGLAS.] In three volumes.
London 1870. Octavo.*

ARTHUR and Mary. [By Mrs ORDE, sister of General Sharpe, M.P.]

Paris, 1837. Octavo. Pp. 50.'

"General Sharpe bought up the whole impression, and only two or three copies have been preserved."-MS. note in Mr. Maidment's copy.

*

ARTHUR Arundel, a tale of the English revolution. By the author of "Brambletye House," &c., &c. [Horace SMITH.] In three volumes. London: 1844. Duodecimo. ARTHUR Brandon. A novel. [By Mrs BROTHERTON.] In two volumes. London: 1856. Octavo.* [N. and Q., 13 June, 1863, cover.]

ARTHUR Coningsby. In three volumes. [By John STERLING.]

London: 1833. Duodecimo.* [Adv. Lib.] ARTHUR Fitz-Albini. A novel, in two volumes. [By Sir Samuel Egerton BRYDGES.]

London 1798. Duodecimo.* [Nichols,
Lit. Anec., ix. 210.]

:

ARTHUR of Britanny, an historical tale. By the author of the Templars. [Peter LEICESTER.] In three volumes. London Octavo. [Lond. Cat.] ARTHUR O'Leary his wanderings and ponderings in many lands. Edited by his friend, Harry Lorrequer [Charles James LEVER, M.D.], and illustrated by George Cruickshank. In three volumes.

London 1844. Octavo.*

ARTHUR, or the pastor of the village, a poem. [By J. L. KNAPP.]

London 1818. Octavo. Pp. 144.* [Gent.
Mag., June 1845, p. 653.]

ARTICLES concerning civil society,
and civil government.
HALL.]

[By James

Edinburgh: M DCC LXXX. Octavo.*

ARTICLES (the) construed by themselves. [By Robert LowE.]

Oxford: 1841. Octavo. Pp. 24.* [Dub.
Cat., p. 133.]

ARTICLES of inquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and sidemen of every parish within the archdeaconry of Durham. Anno Dom. MDCLXIII. [By Denis GRANville, D.D.]

London, 1663. Quarto. Chiefly in B. L.* [Adv. Lib.]

ARTICLES of religion agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops and the rest of the clergy in Ireland in the Convocation held in Dublin in 1615, for avoiding of diversities of opinions, and the establishing of consent touching true religion. [Drawn up by James USHER, Archbishop of Armagh.] Quarto. [W., Lowndes, Brit. Lib.]

ARTICLES of Religion of the Church of England in the reigns of King Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth. [Edited by C. BURNEY?]

London: 1811. Quarto. [W., Brit. Mus.]

ARTIFICIAL (the) clock-maker.

A

2.

treatise of watch and clock-work, wherein the art of calculating numbers for most sorts of movements is explained, to the capacity of the unlearned. Also, the history of watch and clock work, both ancient and modern. With other useful matters never before publish'd. The second edition enlarged. To which is added a supplement, containing, I. The anatomy of a watch and clock. Monsieur Romer's satellite-instrument, with observations concerning the calculation of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, and to find the longitude by them. 3. A nice way to correct pendu. lum watches. 4. Mr. Flamsteed's equation tables. 5. To find a meridian-line, for the governing of watches, and other uses. 6. To make a telescope to keep a watch by the fixed stars. By W. D., M.A. [William DERHAM.] London, 1700. Octavo. Pp. 13. b. t. 119. The supplement has a separate title and pagination [pp. 28]. [N. and Q. Bodl.]

ARTIFICIALL embellishments. Or arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it. [By Thomas JEAMSON.]

Oxford, 1665. Octavo. Pp. 14. b. t. 192. Address "To the honourable and truly virtuous A. E.," signed M. S.

ARUNDINES Devæ; or, poetical translations on a new principle. By a Scotch physician. [Francis ADAMS.] Edinburgh: 1853. Octavo.*

ARVENDEL; or, sketches in Italy and Switzerland. [By the Hon. Gerard T. NOEL.]

London: 1926. Octavo. Pp. vi. 123.*

ARVIRAGVS and Philicia. As it was acted at the private house in Black Fryers by his majesties servants. The first and second part. [By Lodowicke CARLELL.]

London, 1639. Duodecimo. No pagination.* [Brit. Mus.]

AS he comes up the stair. By the author of 'Comin' thro' the rye.' [Helen MATHERS.]

London: 1878. Octavo. Pp. 1. b.t. 181.*

AS it should be; a dramatic entertainment in one act as performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. [By Walley Chamberlaine OULTON.] London: 1789. Octavo. Pp. 30.*

AS you find it; a comedy. As it is acted at the New-Theatre in LittleLincoln's-Inn-Fields, by Her Majesty's servants. [By Charles BOYLE, Earl of Orrery.]

London: Pp. 68.* ASCENT to the summit of Mont Blanc, on the 22nd and 23rd of August 1837. [By Henry Martin ATKINS.] London: 1838. Octavo.* [W., Martin's Cat.]

MDCCIII. [1703.] Quarto.

ASCETICKS: or, the heroick piety and virtue of the ancient Christian anchorets and coenabites. [By Edward STEPHENS.]

London, 1696. Octavo.* [Bodl.] ASHBURN. A tale. By Aura. [Mary Catharine IRVINE.]

London: MDCCCLVII. Octavo. Pp. iv. 335.*

"ASK mamma;

or, the richest commoner in England. By the author of "Handley Cross," "Sponge's sporting tour," &c. &c. [Robert Smith SURTEES.] With illustrations by John Leech.

London 1858. Octavo.* [Adv. Lib.] ASLANÉ; a tale of the massacre of the Nestorian Christians. By Enos. [Charles Percival STONE.] London: 1858. Octavo.*

ASPECTS (the) of religion in the United States of America. By the author of "The Englishwoman in America." [Miss BIRD.]

London: 1859. Octavo. Pp. 189.* [Adv. Lib.]

Ascribed to Sarah Mytton Maury. [Bodl.]

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ASSEMBLY-MAN (the); written in the year 1647. [By Sir John BIRKENHEAD.]

London: 1663. Quarto.*

ASSEMBLY'S (the) Shorter Catechism explained by way of question and answer. Part I. [By E. ERSKINE and J. FISHER.] Part II. [By J. FISHER.]

Edinburgh: 1765. Octavo. [W., Brit.
Mus.]

ASSEMBLY'S (the) Shorter Catechism,

rescu'd from the late reviser and vindicator being, a large defence of that most excellent compend of divinity: to which is added, a postscript, dedicated to the congregation of Protestant dissenters at Hackney, now under the pastoral care of the Reverend Mr Barker. Containing a very particular answer to Mr Gibbs's Letter. [By David MILLAR, A.M.]

London, M. DCC.XXXVIII. Octavo. Pp. 1. b. t. xiv. 165. 94.*

The Postscript has a separate pagination. ASSERTION (an) of the government of the Church of Scotland, in the points of ruling-elders, and of the authority of presbyteries and synods. With a postscript in answer to a treatise lately published against presbyteriall government. [By George GILLESPIE.]

Edinburgh, 1641 Quarto.* ASSIZE (the) ball: or Lucy of the moor. [By Mrs TRENCH.]

London: MDCCCXX. Octavo.* ASSOCIATORS (the) cashier'd. Proving by undeniable arguments, as well as by the testimony of their own mouthes, that the late endeavours of some restless spirits were, 1. To enervate monarchy. 2. To subvert the institution of English-parliaments, and usher in the power of the sword. [By Lawrence WOMOCK, D.D.] London: 1683. Quarto.* [Bodl.]

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ASTREA, or the grove of beatitudes, dedicated to Lady M. Bedingfield. [By Edward MANNING.]

1665. Duodecimo. [W., Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.] ASTROLOGER (the). A comedy. As it was once acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane. [By James RALPH.] London : MDCCXLIV. Octavo. Pp. 84. [Brit. Mus.]

ASTROLOGICAL (an) theological discourse upon this present great conjunction (the like whereof hath not (likely) been in some ages,) ushered in by a great comet. And so far, upon the heavens, the planets, and fixed stars as is a necessary introduction into a distinct and full knowledg of the principal subject herein handled. [By Christopher NESSE.]

London, 1682. Quarto. Pp. 44.* [Bodl.] ΑΣΤΡΟΛΟΓΟΜΑΝΙΑ: the madnesse of astrologers. Or an examination of Sir Christopher Heydons Booke, intituled A defence of iudiciarie astrologie. Written neere vpon twenty yeares ago, by G. C. [George CARLETON, bishop of Chichester]. And by permission of the author set forth for the vse of such as might happily be misled by the Knights booke. Published by T. V. [Vicars] B. of D.

London, 1624. Quarto. Pp. 17. b. t. 123.* [Bodl.]

ASTRONOMICAL and nautical tables, with precepts for finding the longitude and latitude of places by lunar distances, double altitudes, &c., and for solving other the most useful problems in practical astronomy connected with the use of the nautical almanac ; on principles for the most part entirely new, strictly accurate and very easy to be applied in practice. By James Andrew, A.M. [Andrew MACKAY.]

London : 1805. Octavo. Pp. xxiii. 264. [W.]

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