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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    25&i STM STN learned men whose names on the other page of this leafe dc.ne appere. Lond. T. Godfray, n. d. folio. A copy is in the Lambeth Library. Sylvestee. See Silyestee. Stm, John. Life’s Preservative against Self-killing. Lond. 1637,4to. Portrait by W. Marshall. Inglis, 10s. 6d. Symeon, Monachus Dunhelmen- sis. Libellus de Exordio atquo Procursu Dunhelmensis Ecclesise ; e Cod. MS. descripsit Th. Bedford: acced. Historise Dunhelmensium Episcoporum Continuatio. Lond. 1732, 8vo. Gough, 4s. 6d. Nassau, 10s. Stowe, 3s. 6d. LAttGE PAPEB. Williams, 10s. 6d. Symes, Michael. Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, sent by the Governor-General of India in 1795. Lond. 1800, 4to. Map and 24 plates. An esteemed work. Drury, rus. 11. 13s. Heath, lM7s. White Knights, IZ. 19s. Gough, 21.2s. Edwards, 21. 7a. LABGE PAPEB, proofs. Roxburghe, 11.15s. Hibbert, 21. 3s. Dent, 21. 6s. Earl of Kerry, 31. 2s. Duke of York, mor. 31. 3s.—Second edition, Lond. I860, 8vo. 3 vols. with Atlas of plates, IZ. 5s. Symes’ Embassy will be found in the 9th vol. of Pinkerton’s Coll, of Voyages and Travels. Symmachia; or, a True Loves Knot, tyed betwixt Great Britain and the United Provinces., by the WisdomeofK. James and the States General. [By Thos. Scott.] n. d. 4to. Puttick’s, Ap. 7, 1858, 11. Is. Symmons, Edward. Vindication of King Charles I. from the libel, entituled The King’s Cabinet Open- ed. n. p, 1648, 4to. Stowe, 9s. 6d. — Republished by Dr. R. Hollingworth, Lond. 1693,8vo. Bliss, 4s. Symonds, John, LL.D. Obser- vations upon the Expediency of re- vising the present English Version of the four Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles. Camb. 1789, 4to. 8s. Observations upon the Expediency of revising the present English Version of the Epistles, &c. Camb. 1794, 4to. 7s. ‘ A writer of real judgment and taste.’ —ArcJi.Newcomhe. His ‘works deserve to he consulted by all future transliitors and expositors of the Bible.’— Orme. Syms, Christopher. Grent Bri- tain’s Al-arm discovering national sinns, and exhorting to Reformation of life and holiness, and courage in i the Battels of God against the Anti- Christ, &c., collected and knit to- gether in this poem. Lond. print- ed by E. A. and J. M. 1647, 4to. Coll., 78 pages, and prelimin. matter 23 leaves. Heber, pt.iv. 12s. Lilly, calf, 61.6s. Synge, Dr. Edward, Abp. of Tuam. Works. Lond. 1740, 12mo. 4 vols. Reprinted 1756 and 1779, 12rao. 4 vols. Gentleman’s Religion, Loud. 1697,8vo. —Fifth edition, 1726, 12mo.—Reprinted, Oxford,Clarendon Press, 1830,12mo. 4s. 6d. Synge, Geo. Eejoynder to the Reply pub. by the Jesuites under the name of W, Malone. Dub.1632,4to. Syntax, Dr. Dr. Syntax’s Tour in search of the Pieturesque. A Poem. Lond. 1812, royal 8vo. 31 col. plates after Rowlandson, \l. Is. Reprinted 1813, 1815,1820, &c.,roy.8vo. —Lond. 1826, 18mo. coloured plates, 7s. Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Cpnsolation, a Poem. Lond. 1820, roy. 8vo. 24 col. plates,—1826.18mo. col. plates, 7s. Third Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of a Wife, a Poem. Lond. 1821, roy. 8vo. 25 col. pits.—Lond. 1826, 18mo. col. pits. 7s. The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax. Lond. Nattali, 1855, x’oy. 8vo. 3 vols. 80 col. plates after Rowlandson, 11. 11s. 6d. English Dance of Death, a Poem. Lond. 1815-16, roy. 8vo. 2 vols. 74 col. pits, by Rowlandson, 31. 3s. Dance of Life, a Poem. Lond. 1817, roy. 8vo. 26 col. pits, by Rowlandson, IZ. Is. Johnny Quae Genus, or the little Found- ling. Lond. 1822, roy. 8vo. 24 col. pits, by Rowlandson, IZ. Is. Doctor Syntax is the pseudonyme of Wm. Combe, an ingenious and popular writer, who died 1823. Besides what are here enumerated, he wrote the Diaboliad, 1776-77 ; Royal Register, 9 vols. (q. v.); the Devil on Two Sticks in England, 6 vols. and many other works, of which a list is given in the Gent.’s Magazine, May, 1852. The following are not by him : The Tour of Dr. Syntax through Lon- don. A Poem by Dr. Syntax. Lond. 1820, roy. 8vo. col. pits., IZ. Doctor Syntax in Paris, in search of the Grotesque. Lond.-1820, roy. 8vo. col. plts.,lZ. Is. Doctor Syntax’s Life of Napoleon, a Poem. Lond, Tegg, 1823, roy. 8vo. col. pits., IZ. 6s.