A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland: Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives, and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, with the Number of Editions Printed; Including Notices of Some Foreign Writers Whose Works Have Been Occasionally Published in England |
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... Italy to Germany , through Tyrol , ( with large aqua- tinta engravings ) imp . fol . 1792. - Select Views of the , Antiquities and Harbours of the South of France , with Descriptions , fol . 1794. - Travels through the Maritime Alps ...
... Italy to Germany , through Tyrol , ( with large aqua- tinta engravings ) imp . fol . 1792. - Select Views of the , Antiquities and Harbours of the South of France , with Descriptions , fol . 1794. - Travels through the Maritime Alps ...
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... Italy to a Friend in Eugland , 2 v . 8vo . 1805 . BECKWITH , JOSIAH , F. A. S. Blount's Fragmenta Antiquitatis , or Ancient Tenures of Land and Jocular Customs of some Manors , 8vo . 1784 . A Plan to prevent all Charitable Donations ...
... Italy to a Friend in Eugland , 2 v . 8vo . 1805 . BECKWITH , JOSIAH , F. A. S. Blount's Fragmenta Antiquitatis , or Ancient Tenures of Land and Jocular Customs of some Manors , 8vo . 1784 . A Plan to prevent all Charitable Donations ...
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... Italian , 8vo . 1793.- Examination of Events always styled and treated as heir appa- termed miraculous , as reported in Letters from Italy , rent to the Earldom . Another marriage 8vo . 1796 . sous , 4to . 1790. - Memoirs of Gregory ...
... Italian , 8vo . 1793.- Examination of Events always styled and treated as heir appa- termed miraculous , as reported in Letters from Italy , rent to the Earldom . Another marriage 8vo . 1796 . sous , 4to . 1790. - Memoirs of Gregory ...
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... Italy with his two daughters , they became ac- quainted with Horatio Walpole , after- wards Lord Orford , who at his death be- queathed to the latter handsome le- gacies , and to the father the copy - right of his works , which is said ...
... Italy with his two daughters , they became ac- quainted with Horatio Walpole , after- wards Lord Orford , who at his death be- queathed to the latter handsome le- gacies , and to the father the copy - right of his works , which is said ...
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... Italian Monk , play , 8vo . 1797. - Cambro - Britons , hist . play , 8vo . 1798. - Aurelio and Miranda , dram . 8vo . 1799. - A Rainy Day , or Poetical Impressions during a Stay at Brighthelmstone . 4to . 1801. - The Voice of Nature ...
... Italian Monk , play , 8vo . 1797. - Cambro - Britons , hist . play , 8vo . 1798. - Aurelio and Miranda , dram . 8vo . 1799. - A Rainy Day , or Poetical Impressions during a Stay at Brighthelmstone . 4to . 1801. - The Voice of Nature ...
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