• Tom Thumb's folio; or, a new penny play-thing for little giants. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the life of Mr. Thumb, And An Historical Account of the Wonderful Deeds he performed. Together with Some Anecdotes respecting Grumbo the Great Giant.

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  1786

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• Joe Miller's jests. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, and most pleasant short stories in the English Language. The greater Part of which are taken from the mouth of that facetious gentleman whose name they bear.

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  [1770?]

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• The whole life, and conversation, birth and parentage, and education of Richard Mosely, aged about sixteen years old, for the murther of his own grandmother Mary Payton, in the parish of Sedgely in Staffordshire. ... Who was executed ... on Saturday the 12th April. Together with his tryal ... held at Stafford, on Thursday and Friday, the 3d and 4th of ... April, 1707. ...

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  1707]

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• Tom Long, the carrier.

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  [1780?]

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• A strange and wonderful relation of the old woman That was drowned at Ratcliff-Highway, a fortnight ago. Whereunto is added the old woman's legacies, a little before her death. Part the second.

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  [1780?]

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• Tom long the carrier.

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  [1750?]

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• A diverting dialogue, both serious and comical, that happened the other day between a noted shoemaker and his wife, living in this neighbourhood.

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  [1800?]

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• The true trial of understanding: or wit newly reviv'd, being a book of riddles, adorned with variety of pictures, New Riddles make both Wit & Mirth The Price a Penny, yet not half the Worth. By S. M.

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  [1790?]

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• The vanity and vain glory of mortals or, the pride and folly of man. Explained in the seven several stages of his life; first from his Birth to Ten Years of Age, and to Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty, Sixty, and Seventy, which according to the sayings of the Psalmist, is the full Age and Measure of Man's days in this Life.

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  1770?]

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• Fun upon fun: or, the comical merry tricks of Leper the Taylor. Part II.

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  MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]

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• Preceptive, moral, & sentimental pieces. On human pursuits. On human pursuits. On human life, from Goethe. On inconsistent expectations, by Mrs. Barbauld. Maxims and Reflections, by Stanislaus, the deposed King of Poland. Character of Antiope, from Fenelon, by Robertson. Character of a true friend, by Dr. Enfield. The secret of being always easy. from l'abbe Aubert.

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  1796

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• The history of Lawrence Lazy. Containing his birth and slothful breeding;how he served the Schoolmaster, his Wife, the Squire's Cook, and the Farmer; which by the Laws of Lubberland was accounted High Treason--His Arraignment and Trial; and happy Deliverance from the many Treasons laid to his charge.

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  [1770?]

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• A heavenly rest for a weary soul; or the pilgrim at his journey's end: being the last legacy of a father to his children when on his death bed. To which is added, I. The Children's Duty to God, their Mother and themselves. II. A Copy of Verses; written by the Father a little before his Death. III. Some Godly Meditations. IV. The Father's last Gift to his Children. By John Bunyan.

  • Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.

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  [1795?]

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• A Comical and diverting courtship which lately happened in the neighbourhood between an old woman of fourscore, and a youth about sixteen! whom she lately married!

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  Printed in the year, 1788

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• The famous and memorable history of the battle on Chevy-Chace, Between Earl Piercy, with fifteen hundred English, and earl Douglas, with two thousand Scots; in which both these Earls, and most of their men were slain. To which is added, An old Ballad on the same Subject. Embellished with beautiful Engravings of the most re markable Incidents in this important History.

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  [1790?]

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• The lost and undone son of perdition; or the life and death of Judas Iscariot.

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  1784

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• The famous history of the valiant London prentice.

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  [1775?]

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• An answer to every man that asketh a reason of the hope that is in us. The second edition. Written by Joseph Humphreys.

  • Humphreys, Joseph.

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  1744

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• The Whitsun-tide ramble: Or, Great news from Hornsey Cave, and likewise the humours that was acted at Cane-Wood, Cupit's-Gardens, Sping-Gardens, the Bear-Garden, Chelsea, Hyde-Park, Deptford, St. James's-Park and Islington; with a full and true account of a terrible slaughter that was made on stuff-beef and gammon of bacon, in most victualling houses thro'out London. Together with the Beau's frolick, from the Devil to the play-house.

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  [1720?]

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• Manfredi, Baron St. Osmund. An old English romance. In two volumes.

  • Lansdell, Sarah, active 1796-1798.

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  M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]

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• Dr. Flamstead's and Mr. Patridge's new fortune-book: containing, I. Their new-invented method of knowing one's fortune by a pack of cards; ... V. A treatise of moles, ...

  • Partridge and Flamsted (London, England)

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  [1730?]

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• The history of Thomas Hickathrift. Part the first.

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  [1790?]

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• Just published, the unfortunate shipwright, or cruel captain, being a faithful narrative of the unparalleled sufferings of Robert Barker, late carpenter on-board the Thetis Snow, of Bristol; on a voyage thence to the coast of Guinea and Antigua.

  • Barker, Robert, 1729-

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  1795

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• The comical sayings of Pady from Cork, with his coat button'd behind. Being an elegant conference betwixt English Tom and Irish Teague; with Pady's catechism, his Opinion of Purgatory, the State of the drad; and his Petition when a Mountain Sailor. To which is added This Creid for All Romish Believers.

  • Graham, Dougal, 1724-1779.

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  1798

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• Five strange wonders of the world; Of a new merry book of all fives which was written on purpose to make all the people of England merry, who have no cause to be sad: Written by George Fox, an English man, who was a slave in Turkey four years.

  • Fox, George, English man, who was a slave in Turkey.

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  [1725?]

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