English Literatuere to 1800

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English Literature

Item 3. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
The works of Geoffrey Chaucer : compared with the former editions, and many valuable MSS ... / by John Urry. (London : printed for Bernard Lintot, 1721)

Item 24. Suckling, John, 1609-1642.
Fragmenta aurea : a collection of all the incomparable peeces written by Sir John Suckling, and published by a friend to perpetuate his memory, printed by his owne copies. (London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley ..., 1648)

Item 101. Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Songs of innocence and of experience / by William Blake. (Liverpool : Henry Young & Sons, 1923)

Item 9. Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
The Faerie queene / by Edmund Spenser ; with an exact collation of the two original editions published by himself at London in quarto, the former containing the first three books printed in 1590, and the latter the six books in 1596 ; to which are now added a new life of the author and also a glossary adorn'd with thiry-two copper-plates from the original drawings of the late W. Kent. (London : Printed for J. Brindley in New Bond-Street and S. Wright, Clerk of his Majesty's works, at Hampton-Court, 1751) 3 v.

Item 14. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes / collated with the oldest copies, and corrected with notes explanatory and critical by Mr. Theobald. (London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Tonson, F. Clay, W. Feales, and R. Wellington, 1733) 7 v.

Item 15. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
The plays of William Shakespeare in ten volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators / to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. 3rd ed., rev. and augm. / by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays [i.e., Isaac Reed] (London : Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Rivington and Sons [and 28 others], 1785) 10 v.

Item 21. Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1583-1648.
The life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury / written by himself. [edited by Horace Walpole] (London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770)

Item 25. Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up / by Democritus Junior ; with a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse. The eighth edition / corrected and augmented by the author. (London : Printed for Peter Parker ..., 1676)

Item 32. Philips, Katherine, 1631-1664.
Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda : to which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, tragedies, with several other translations out of French. (London : Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, at the sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1667)

Item 34. Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books / the author : John Milton. 3rd ed. (London : Printed by S. Simmons, 1678)

Item 36. Browne, Thomas, 1605-1682.
The works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt., Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich : containing I. Enquiries into vulgar and common errors, II. Religio medici : with annotations and observations upon it, III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-burial : together with The garden of Cyrus, IV. Certain miscellany tracts : with alphabetical tables. (London : Printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearn, and Charles Brome, 1686)

Item 38. D'Avenant, William, 1606-1668.
The works of Sir William D'Avenant : consisting of those which were formerly printed and those which he design'd for the press now published out of the authors originall copies. (London : Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1673)

Item 37. Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. The second part, delivered under the similitude of a dream : wherein is set forth the manner of the setting out of Christian's wife and children, their dangerous journey and safe arrival at the desired country / by John Bunyan. The eleventh edition, with the addition of five cuts. (London : Printed for M. Beddington ..., 1719)

Item 35. Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
Leviathan, or, The matter, form, and power of a common-wealth ecclesiastical and civil. / By Thomas Hobbes, (London : Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1651 [i.e. 1680?])

Item 41. Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Absalom and Achitophel : a poem. (London : Printed for J.T. and are to be sold by W. Davis, 1681)

Item 45. D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
The Wedding, or the farmer's holliday : a new song the words made to a pleasant tune / by Mr. D'urfey. ([London, c.1710])

Item 60. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner : who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America ... With an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates / written by himself. The third edition. (London : Printed for W. Taylor ..., 1719)

Item 61. Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships. (London, B. Motte, 1726) 2 v.

Item 66. Thomson, James, 1700-1748.
The seasons / By Mr. Thomson. (London : [s.n.], 1730)

Item 67. Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770.
The poems of Mark Akenside, M.D. (London : Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: and sold by J. Dodsley ... , 1772)

Item 76. Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
The life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. : comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order, a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons, and various original pieces of his composition, never before published ... In two volumes / by James Boswell, Esq. (London : printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791) 2 v.

Item 72. Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman... 2nd ed. London :
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1760-67. 9 v.

Item 73. Hall-Stevenson, John, 1718-1785.
Crazy tales. (London : Printed in the year, 1762)

Item 78. Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems / by Mr. T. Gray. (London: Printed for R. Dodsley ..., 1753)

Item 82. Macpherson, James, 1736-1796.
Fingal, an ancient epic poem, in six books : together with several other poems composed by Ossian the son of Fingal / translated from the Galic language by James Macpherson (London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt ..., 1762)

Item 88. Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770.
Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the fifteenth century : the greatest part now first published from the most authentic copies, with an engraved specimen of one of the mss. To which are added, a preface, an introductory account of the several pieces, and a glossary. (London : Printed for T. Payne and Son, 1777)

Item 85. Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788.
The prostitute : a poem / the author, J.H. Wynne. (London : printed for J. Wheble, 1771)

Item 95. Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. The botanic garden : a poem, in two parts ... : with philosophical notes. 3rd ed. (London : Printed for J. Johnson, 1795)

Item 96. Burges, James Bland, 1752-1824.
The birth and triumph of love : a poem / by Sir James Bland Burges. (London: Printed by C. Roworth, for T. Egerton... ; and sold by him and P.W. Tomkins..., 1796)

Item 97. Blair, Robert, 1699-1746.
The grave, a poem / by Robert Blair ; illustrated by twelve etchings executed from original designs by William Blake. (London : Printed by T. Bensley for ... R. H. Cromek, 1808)

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