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Page 47 - Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Reign of Edward I. 2 vols, 8vo, containing upwards of 1,000 pages, closely printed In double columns, cloth, a new and cheaper edition.
Page 6 - ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF WRITING, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, Illustrated by Engravings taken from. Marbles, Manuscripts, and Charters, Ancient and Modern ; also Some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing.
Page 21 - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, compared with the Former Editions and many valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before Printed ; By John Urry, Student of Christ-Church, Oxon, Deceased : Together •with a Glossary, By a Student of the same College.
Page 109 - Works of, now first collected, with some account of the Author, and Notes by the Rev.
Page 69 - History of Latin Christianity ; including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicholas V.
Page 3 - Typographical antiquities; or, The history of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland : containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them. Begun by the late Joseph Ames .... Considerably augmented by William Herbert ... and now greatly enlarged with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings...
Page 24 - Vindida; or Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, &;c., purged from the many false and spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable Errours and Corruptions in the true Copies.
Page 14 - Human Prudence: | or, the | Art | By which a | Man may Raise Himself | and his | Fortune | to | Grandeur. | Corrected and very much Enlarged. \ The Eleventh Edition. | [Quot.] | London, | Printed for Richard Sare, at Gray's Inn- \ Gate in Holborn. M.DCCXVII.
Page 67 - The perfect and exact Coppy, with diuerse things Printed, that the length of the Play would not beare in the Presentment.