Volume 3

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 / by William Thomas Lowndes.

  • Lowndes, William Thomas, 1798?-1843.
Date:
1871
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Credit: 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 / by William Thomas Lowndes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SwiPT, Jonathan, D.D,—continued. A Letter to a Young Gentleman lately- entered into Holy Orders. Lond. 1721,8vo. A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet ; together with a proposal for the encou- ragement of Poetry in this Kingdom, (Dub. 1721), reprinted p. 1, vol. i, of the fourth collection of Gomers’ Tracts. The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders : being an accurate Description of the Birth, Education, manner of Living, Religion, Politicks, Learning, &c. of mine A—se; with a Preface, and some few Notes explaining the most difficult pas- sages, Lond. 1721, 8vo,—Sixth edition, 1722, 8vo. pp. 20. Sotheby’s, April 18, 1863, 6s. Drapier’s Letters. — Fraud detected, or the Hibernian patriot; containing all the Drapier’s letters to the people of Ire- land, on Wood’s coinage, &c.; to which are added, Prometheus, a Poem; also a new Soug to the Drapier, &c. (Anon.) Dublin, 1725, 8vo. — Lond. 1730, 8vo. These Letters were first issued separately in 1724. Cadenus and Vanessa, n. p. 1726, 8vo. Medley, containing his Scheme for making Religion and the Clergy useful, n. d. 8vo. Sotheby’s, March, 1862, with other tracts, 7s. 6d. Guleiver’s Travels. Travels into se- veral remote Nations of the World, in four parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a Sur- geon, and then a Captain of several ships. First edition, Lond. B. Motte, 1726-27, 8vo. 2 vols. portrait and plates by Sturt. Heber, pt. vii. \l. 6s. large PAPER. Heber, pt. ii. IL 3s.—Second edition, Lond. 1727, 8vo. 2 vols. In the same year was printed a third volume, which is not by Swift. Mitford, April, 1860, with Gulliver’s Memoirs of Lilliput, 1727, 4Z. Gulliver’s Travels, Lond. 1731, 12mo. —Ih. 1747, 12mo.—75. 1751,12mo.—Lond. 1766, 8vo. Gulliver’s Travels. Lond. Walker’s Classics, 1815,24mo. 3s. 6d. Lond. (Dove), (1830), 24mo. front, 3s. Gulliver’s Travels, illustrated with up- wards of 400 wood-cuts from designs by Grandville. To which are added copious Notes and a Life of the Author, with an Essay on Satirical Fiction, by W. C. Taylor. Lond. 1840, royal 8vo. 11. Is. Reduced, Bohn, 10s. 6d. Lond. (R. Burns), 1847, 18mo. 2s. 6d.— Edinb. 1858, 12mo. Is. 6d. Gulliver’s Travels, with a Life of the Author. Lond. Willoughby, n. d. (1852), 8vo. wood cuts, 8s. With a French Translation by Dr, Pirscher. Lond. Simpkin, 1859,12mo. 3s. For Gullivertana and other Volumes and Tracts relating to Gidliver's Travels, see S-vviftiana. The Journal of a Modern Lady. Lond. 1729, 8vo. The History of Martin, giving an ac- count of his departure from Jack, and their setting up for themselves, &c. Lond. n. d. 4to. This was inserted in the early editions of the Tale of a Tub, but omitted in the later ones. A Vindication of his Excellency Lord C 1 (Carteret), from the Charge of Favouring none but Tories, High Church- men and Jacobites. Lond. 1730, 8vo. Proposal for Preventing the Children of the Poor from being a Burthen to their Parents or Country. Dublin, 1729, 8vo. —Lond. 1730, 8vo. A Libel on Dr. D y, (i. e. Dr. Patrick Delany,) and a certain great lord; to which is added, i. An Epistle to John Lord Carteret by Dr. D y; ii. An Epistle on an Epistle, or a Christmas-box for Dr. D y ; in. Dr. S’w t’s Pro- posal for Preventing the Children of Poor People being a Burthen to their Parents or Country. Second edit. Lond. 1730, 8vo. Memoirs of Captain John Creichton, from his own materials. Lond. 1731, 12mo. See Creighton, p. 553. The Life and Character of Dr. Swift, written by himself. Lond. 1733, folio. [This is a spurious copy of the fol- lowing poem.] Vei’ses on the Death of Dr. Swift, writ- ten by himself, Nov. 1731. Lond. 1739, fol. This edition was entrusted to the care of Dr. King, who suppressed more than 100 lines of the MS., upon which Swift immediately authorised a correct reprint by Faulkner, Dublin. The Advantage proposed by Repealing the Sacramental Test considered. Dublin, 1732, 8vo. An Infallible Scheme to Pay the Puh- lick Debt of this Nation in Six Months; humbly offered to the consideration of the present P 1. Lond. 1732, 8vo. Poems on Several Occasions. Lond. 1734,4to. Poetical Works. Lond. 1736, 12rno. containing his most free verses. Poetical Works, with Life by Mitford. Lond. (Pickering’s Aldine Poets), 1833-4, 12mo. 3 vols.—1853, 12mo. 3 vols. 15s. A complete Collection of genteel and ingenious Conversation, according to the most polite mode and method now used at Court, and in the best companies of England ; in three Dialogues. By Simon Wagstafif. Lond. 1738, 8vo. The Beasts Confession to the Priest. Dublin, 1738, 8vo. Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace. Lond. 1738, folio. Some Free Thoughts upon the Pre- sent State of Affairs. By the Author of Gulliver’s Travels. Lond. 1741, 6vo.