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Eighteenth Century Books

Some Books of the 18thC
Thomas BEWICK : A General History of Quadrupeds
(1790 Newcastle : Octavo)
A History of British Birds
(1797 & 1804 Newcastle : Octavo) - 2 vols
THE BIBLE
(Vinegar Bible) (1716 & 1717 J Baskett, london. Folio) - 2 vols
THE BIBLE
(Folio) (1763 J Baskerville, Birmingham)
Sir William BLACKSTONE : Commentaries on the Laws of England
(1765-9 Oxford : Quarto) - 4 vols
Robert BURNS : Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
(1786 Kilmarnock)
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Caius Julius CAESAR : Opera
(1712 London : Folio)
William CASLON & SON : A Specimen of Printing Types
(1734 London) - single sheet
Edward Hyde CLARENDON
(1st Earl) : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
(1702-4 London : 1st Edition Folio)
Capt James COOK : The Three Voyages
(1773, 1777 & 1784 London. Quarto & Folio) - 9 vols
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Daniel DEFOE : The Life & Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Serious Reflections
of Robinson Crusoe
(1719-20 London. Octavo) - 3 vols
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Henry FIELDING : Tom Jones
(1749 London : Duodecimo) - 6 vols
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Oliver GOLDSMITH : History of the Earth and Animated Nature
(1744 London : Octavo) - 8 vols
The Vicar of Wakefield
(1766 Salisbury : Duodecimo) - 2 vols
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HORACE : Opera
(1733-7 London : octavo) - 2 vols. Engraved by John Pine
John HOWARD : The State of the Prisons in England & Wales
(1777-84 Warrington : Octavo) - 2 vols, incl appendix
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Samuel JOHNSON : London - A Poem
(1738 London : Folio)
A Dictionary of the English Language
(1755 London : Quarto) - 2 vols
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
(1779-81 London : Octavo) - 10 vols
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Henry MACKENZIE : The Man of Feeling
(1771 London : Duodecimo)
John MILTON : Paradise Lost
(1688 London : 4th Ed. Folio)
Thomas MORE : Utopia
(1743 Foulis Press, Glasgow : Octavo) - Trans by Gilbert Burnet
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Isaac NEWTON : Philosophiae Naturalis Principa Mathematica
(1713 Cambridge : 2nd Ed Quarto)
(1729 London : 1st English Edition. Octavo) - 2 vols
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Joseph PRIESTLEY : The History and Present State of Electricity
(1767 London : Quarto)
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Samuel RICHARDSON : Pamela or Virtue Rewarded
(1741-2 London : Duodecimo) - 4 vols
Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady
(1748 London : Duodecimo) - 7 vols
The History of Sir Charles Grandison
(1754 London : Octavo) - 7 vols
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William SHAKESPEARE : Collected Works
(1743-4 Oxford : Quarto) - 6 vols
Laurence STERNE : The Life & Opinions of Tristam Shandy
(1760-7 York & London : Octavo) - 9 vols
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VIRGIL : Bucolia, Georgica et Aeneis
(1757 J Baskerville, Birmingham : Quarto)
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Gilbert WHITE : The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne
(1789 London : Quarto)
William WORDSWORTH & Samuel COLERIDGE : Lyrical Ballads
(1798 Biggs & Cottle, Bristol. 1st Ed, 1st Issue : Octavo) - 2 vols
(1798 J & A Arch, London : 1st Ed 2nd Issue)

READING
John Feather : The Provincial Book Trade in 18thC England
(1985 Cambridge)

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