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BRITISH relations with the Chinese empire in 1832. Comparative statement of the English and American trade with India and Canton. Robert Montgomery MARTIN.] London: 1832. Octavo. Pp. 148.* [Bodl.] BRITISH rural sports: comprising shooting, hunting, coursing, fishing, hawking, racing, boating, pedestrianism, with all rural games and amusements. By Stonehenge, editor of "The field," author of "The greyhound." [J. H. WALSH.] Illustrated by Wells, Harvey, Hind, &c. Ninth edition, with numerous additions.

London: 1871. Octavo. Pp. xx. 872.* The first edition appeared in 1855. BRITISH scenery; a poetical sketch, by a quondam Oxonian and Carthusian. [Daniel CABANEL.]

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London 1811. Quarto. [Gent. Mag., lxxxv. 1. 144. Brit. Crit., xxxix. 191.] BRITISH (the) Senate in 1838: forming

a second series of Random Recollec

tions of the Lords and Commons by the author of "The great metropolis," etc. [James GRANT.] In two volumes. London: 1838. Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

BRITISH (the) theatre. Containing the lives of the English dramatic poets; with an account of all their plays. Together with the lives of most of the principal actors, as well as poets. To which is prefixed, a short view of the rise and progress of the English_stage. [By William Rufus CHETWOOD.]

Dublin: M. DCC. L.

Duodecimo. Pp. xvi. b. t. 6. 200. 26.* [Biog. Dram.]

BRITISH topography. Or, an historical account of what has been done for illustrating the topographical antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland. [By Richard GOUGH.] 2 Vols.

London, M DCC LXXX. Quarto.* The preface is signed R. G.

BRITONS (the) and Saxons not converted to popery; or the faith of our ancestors shewn to have been corrupted by the Romish Church, and restored to its ancient purity by the Reformed Church of England: in two dialogues, between a gentleman and his preceptor, containing an answer to all that is material in a book entitled, England's conversion and reformation compared, &c. [By George SMITH.] London, MDCCXLVIII. Octavo.*

BROAD (the) road and the narrow way: a brief memoir of Eliza Ann Harris. By the author of "The female Jesuit." [Mrs S. LUKE.]

London: M. DCCC. LIX. Octavo. Pp. 130. b. t.* [Adv. Lib.]

BROAD (the) stone of honour: or, rules for the gentlemen of England. [By Kenelm Henry DIGBY.]

London, 1822. Octavo. Pp. xxii. 1. 390.* [Bodl.]

BROKEN (a) echo, a poem. [By Henry POTTINGER.]

London, 1853. Octavo. Pp. 2. b. t. 61.* [Adv. Lib.]

BROKEN (the) font. A story of the civil war. By the author of "Tales of the wars of our times,"" Recollections of the Peninsula," &c. &c. &c. [Moyle SHERER.] In two volumes. London: 1836. Octavo.*

BROMSGROVE (the) Constables. By
a bird at Bromsgrove: to which is
added a Medley. [By John CRANE.]
Birmingham: 1802. Duodecimo. [W.]
BROMSGROVE (the) Greek Grammar;
abridged for beginners. [Edited by
George Andrew JACOB.]
London: 1845. Duodecimo. [W.]
BROMSGROVE (the) Latin grammar.
[Edited by George Andrew JACOB.]
Third edition.

London 1851. Duodecimo. [W., Brit.
Mus.]

BROMSGROVE (the) memorial, and bird at Bromsother poems. By

grove. [John CRANE.]

Bromsgrove: [1820?] Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

BROOKIANA. [By Charles Henry WILSON.] Two volumes.

London. 1804. Octavo.* [Gent. Mag., lxxviii. 1. 469.]

BROTHER Abraham's answer to Peter Plymley, Esq., in two letters; to which is prefixed, a posthumous preface. [By Richard KING.]

London: 1808. Octavo. [Gent. Mag., Dec. 1810, p. 589.] BROTHER (the) born for adversity; or, the similarity of the Saviour's sorrows and sufferings to those of his followers. By the author of "God is love; or, glimpses of the Father's infinite affection for his people." [James GRANT.] London: N.D. Duodecimo.* [Adv. Lib.]

BROTHER (the) in law. A comedy. [BY CARR.]

Kent printed at the private press of Lee Priory. 1817. [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.] BROTHER Jonathan: or, the New Englanders. [By John NEAL.]

Edinburgh: MDCCCXXV. Octavo.* [Aberdeen Lib.]

BROTHER Peter to Brother Tom. An expostulatory epistle. By Peter Pindar, Esq. [John WOLCOTT.]

London: M. DCC. LXXXVIII. Quarto. Pp. iv. 49.*

BROTHERLY (a) and friendly censure of the errour of a dear friend and brother [William Prynne] in Christian affection, in an answer to his four questions [concerning excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament] lately sent abroad in print, &c. [By G. WALKER.]

London: 1645. Quarto. [W., Brit. Mus.]

BROTHERS (the): a comedy.

As it

is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. [By Richard CUMBERLAND.]

London: 1770. Octavo. Pp. v. 72.* [Biog. Dram.] BROTHERS (the). A play, in five acts. [By William LINELF.] London: MDCCCXLIII. Octavo. Pp. 65.* [Manchester Free Lib. Cat., p. 556.]

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London: 1775. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.] BROWNISTS (the) conventicle or an assembly of Brownists, Separatists, and Non-conformists, as they met together at a private house to heare a sermon of a brother of theirs neere Algate, being a learned felt-maker. Contayning the whole discourse of his exposition, with the manner and forme of his preaching, praying, giving thankes before and after dinner and supper, as it was lately heard and now discovered by a brother of theirs who is turned out of their society upon some discontent, to be buffeted by Sathan. His auditors were button-makers,

translaters, weavers, box-makers, with divers other holy brethren and sisters. [By John TAYLOR, the water-poet.] Printed 1641. Quarto. Pp. 8. B.L.* BROWNISTS (the) synagogue or a late discovery of their conventicles, assemblies; and places of meeting. Where they preach, and the manner of their praying and preaching. With a relation of the names, places, and doctrines of those which doe commonly preach. The chiefe of which are these. Greene, the felt-maker. Marler, the buttonmaker. Spencer, the coachman. Rogers, the glover, which sect is much increased of late within this city. [By John TAYLOR, the water-poet.]

Printed Anno Dom. 1641. Quarto. Pp. 6. b. t.*

BRUCE'S invasion of Ireland; a poem. [By William Hamilton DRUMMOND, D.D.]

Dublin 1826. Duodecimo.* BRUCIAD (the), an epic poem, in six books. [By John HARVEY.]

London: MDCCLXIX. Octavo.*

A reprint, with some alterations but without acknowledgment, of Harvey's Life of Robert Bruce, King of Scots, which was published with the author's name at Edinburgh in 1729.

BRUNAS' revenge, and other tales. By the author of "Caste," " My son's wife," "Pearl," &c. &c. [Emily JOLLY.] Now first published. In three volumes. London 1872. Octavo.

BRUNO; or lessons of patience, fidelity, and self-denial taught by a dog. By Jacob Abbott, author of "The young Christian," etc. etc. English edition revised by the author of "Head and Heart," etc. etc. [T. S. HENDERSON.] London: 1855. Duodecimo. [W.] BRUNONIAD (the): an heroic poem. In six cantos. Containing a solemn detail of certain commotions which have, of late, divided the kingdom of physic against itself. A critical and truly Homerican catalogue of our present luminaries of medicine. A preface, describing the present state of medicine, being the result of deep philosophical investigation. And a dedication, being a specimen of the author's talents in the sublime and beautiful. By Julius Juniper, poet

laureat to the Royal College of Physicians. [Thomas FOSTER, B.A.]

Quarto. [N.

London: M.DCC.LXXXIX. and Q., Aug. 1863, p. 122.] BRUNSWICK (the): a poem, in_three cantos. [By Charles THOMSON.]

London: 1829. Octavo. Pp. 108.* [Lit.
Gazette, xiii. 436.]

BRVTISH (the) thvnderbolt: or rather feeble fier-flash of Pope Sixtvs the fift, against Henrie the most excellent King of Navarre, and the most noble Henrie Borbon, Prince of Condie. Togither with a declaration of the manifold insufficiencie of the same. Translated out of Latin [of Franciscus HOTOMANUS] into English by Christopher Fetherstone minister of God's word. Imprinted at London, 1586. Octavo. Pp. 12. b. t. 321. 12.* [Bodl.]

BUBBLE (the): a poem. [By Jonathan
SWIFT.]

London, M. DCC.XXI.
Octavo. Pp. 23.*
This poem appears in Swift's Works
(Scott's edition, xiv. 147) under the title of
the Sonth Sea project.

BUBBLE and squeak, a Galli-maufry
or British beef with the chopp'd
cabbage of Gallic philosophy and
radical reform. By the author of
Topsy Turvy, Salmagundi,
[George HUDDESFORD.]

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BUBBLES of Canada. By the author of "The Clockmaker." [Thomas Chandler HALIBURTON.]

London: 1839. Octavo. Pp. 3. b. t. 332.* [Adv. Lib.]

BUCCANEER (the). A tale. [By Anna Maria HALL.] In three volumes. London: 1832. Duodecimo. [Bodl.] BUCCANEER (the), Sir Henry Morgan. By the author of "Rattlin the reefer," "Outward bound," "Jack ashore," etc., etc. [Edward HOWARD.]

London: N. D. [1857.] Octavo. Pp. 339. b. t. [Bodl.]

BVCOLIKS (the) of Pvblivs Virgilivs

Maro, prince of all Latine poets; otherwise called his Pastoralls, or

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1841, 42. Octavo. Pp. 226. b. t.* [M'Cull. Lit. Pol. Econ., p. 340.] BUDGET (the). Inscribed to the man, who thinks himself minister [George Grenville]. [By David HARTLEY.] The second edition.

London: MDCCLXIV. Quarto. Pp. 23.* [Brit. Mus.]

BUDGET (the) opened. Or, an answer to a pamphlet intitled, A letter from a member of parliament to his friends in the country, concerning the duties on wine and tobacco. [By William PULTENEY, Earl of Bath.]

London: 1733. Octavo.*

BUDLEIGH (the) ballad. A tale of threatened woe and merciful deliverance from the chronicles of the year of our Lord 1845. [By George WIGHTWICK.]

Plymouth, [1845.] Octavo. [Davidson,
Bib. Devon., p. 133.]

BUDS and blossoms of piety, with some fruit of the spirit of love; and directions to the divine wisdom; being a collection of papers written by B. A. [Benjamin ANTROBUS.] Second edition.

London: 1691. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.] BUDS (the) of Parnassus. A collection of original poems. [By John NICHOLS.] 1763. Quarto. [Watt, Bib. Brit. Mon. Rev., xxix. 229.]

BULL (a) graunted by the Pope to Dr. Harding and other, by reconcilement and assoyling of English papistes, to vndermyne faith and allegeance to the quene. With a true declaration of the intention and frutes thereof, and a warning of perils thereby imminent,

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BUNDLE (a) of positions, partly selfevident; partly problematick: raised from occasional meditations. [By George MACKENZIE, Earl of Cromarty.] London: MDCCV. Octavo.* [Adv. Lib.] The "Bundle" consists of, I. A right use of reason, against Atheists, Deists, printed at London in 1705. II. An essay on the nature of a church, n. p. n. d. III. An essay on the nature of Christian societies, call'd churches, n. p. n. d. IV. An essay on the light of reason; and also of faith in its proper notions, as it is infallible with some touches at the origination of man, and of his faculties, n. p. n. d. V. The fountains of the natural or moral law. With the exception of No. I., none of the above articles has a separate title-page.

BURFORD cottage, and its robin red breast. By the author of Keeper's travels. [E. A. KENDAL.]

London 1835. Duodecimo. [W., Brit.
Mus.]

BURIED (the) bride. [By Miss WARD.] London: N. D. Octavo. Pp. vii. 173.* [Bodl.]

BURLESQUE (a) translation of Homer. [By Thomas BRYDGES.] In two volumes. The fourth edition improved. London: 1797. Octavo.* [Bodl.]

The above is a translation of Books I-XII of the Iliad.

BURLESQUE upon burlesque or, the scoffer scoft. Being some of Lucian's Dialogues newly put into English fustian. For the consolation of those who had rather laugh and be merry, than be merry and wise. By one who never transgressed before, nor (if this

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BURNOMANIA:

the celebrity of Robert Burns considered in a discourse addressed to all real christians of every denomination. To which are added, Epistles in verse, respecting Peter Pindar, Burns, &c. [By William PEEBLES.]

Edinburgh: 1811. Duodecimo." [N. and
Q., v. 428.]

BURNS (the) calendar: a manual of Burnsiana relating events in the poet's history, names associated with his life and writings, a concise bibliography, and a record of Burns relics. [By James M'KIE.]

Kilmarnock: MDCCCLXXIV. Quarto. No pagination.* [Adv. Lib.]

BURNS (the) festival. Prize poem recited at the Crystal palace. January 25, 1859. [By Miss CRAIG.] London 1859. Quarto. Pp. 7.* [Bodl.]

BURNYNGE of Paules church in London in the yeare of oure Lord 1561. and the iiii. day of June by lyghtnynge, at three of the clocke, at afternoone, which continued terrible and helplesse unto nyght. [By James PILKINGTON, Bishop of Durham.] Imprinted at London, 1563. Octavo. B. L. No pagination.* [Bodl.]

BURTHEN (the) of Issachar : or, the tyrannicall power and practises of the presbyteriall government in Scotland; in their I. Parochiall Session, II. Presbyterie. III. Provinciall Synods. IV. Generall Assembly. With the articles of presbyterian faith inconsistent with monarchie. Whereby it is evident, that Presbyteriall fingers are heavier than Episcopall loynes; these correcting with a rod, those with a scorpion. And therefore it is not the kingdome and government of Jesus Christ, whose yoake is easie, his burthen light, and his scepter a scepter of righteousnesse. [By John MAXWELL.]

Printed in the yeare 1646. Quarto.* [Adv.
Lib.]

BURTON Wood. In a series of letters. By a lady. [Mrs Cox, née Wight.] In two volumes.

Duodecimo. [European Mag., iii. 120. 162.]

BUSH wanderings of a naturalist; or,

notes on the field sports and fauna of Australia Felix. By an old Bushman. [Horace William WHEELWRIGHT.]

London: 1861. Octavo. Pp. xv. 272.* BUSINESS By a merchant. [Frank CARR, merchant, Newcastle.] Edinburgh 1873. Octavo. Pp. xi. 307.* [Adv. Lib.]

BUSSY D'Ambois: a tragedie: as it hath been often presented at Paules. [By George CHAPMAN.]

London, 1607. Quarto. Pp. 70. b. t.* [Bodl.]

BUSY-BODIES (the); a novel. By the authors of "The odd volume." [Misses CORBETT.] In three volumes.

London, 1827. Octavo.* [Adv. Lib.] BUTCHERS (the) blessing, or the bloody intentions of Romish cavaliers against the city of London above other places, demonstrated by 5. arguments, to the right honourable the Lord Mayor, the sheriffes, and other the religious and worthy inhabitants of the said city. Delivered by way of prologue before a sermon the last publique fast-day. By J. G. John GOODWIN.]

London; 1642. Quarto.* [Bodl.]

BUTLER'S ghost: or, Hudibras. The fourth part. With reflections upon these times. [By Thomas DURFEY.] London, 1682. Octavo. Pp. 188.* [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

BUTTERFLY'S (the) ball. [By William
ROSCOE.]

London [1854?] Octavo. [W., Brit.
Mus.]

[Ascribed also to Thomas Koscoe.]

BUXOM Joan: a burletta, in one act. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-market. [By Thomas WILLET.]

1778. Quarto. [Biog. Dram. Mon. Rev., lix. 159.]

BY loch and land: the circular route of the Caledonian-railway, by Crieff, &c. By the author of 'Round the Grange farm,' 'History and scenery of the Border counties,' &c. [Jean L. WATSON.]

Edinburgh: 1875. Octavo. Pp. 111.* BY still waters A story for quiet hours By Edward Garrett, author of 'Crooked places,' 'Occupations of a retired life,' Premiums paid to experience,' 'The crust and the cake''Seen and heard' etc. [Isabella FYVIE.]

London 1874. Octavo. Pp. 2. b. t. 362.*

BY the Elbe. By Sarah Tytler author of 'Citoyenne Jaqueline' etc. [Henrietta KEDDIE. In three volumes.

London 1876. Octavo.*

BY the loch & river side. [By K. J. FINLAY.]

Edinburgh: 1866. Oblong Folio.*

Consists of thirty-nine etchings, each having the initials K. J. F.

BYGANE times, and late come changes; or, a Bridge Street dialogue in Scottish verse. By the author of Will and Jean. [Hector MACNEILL.]

Edinburgh: 1811. Duodecimo.* BYGONE days in our village. By J. L. W. [Jean L. WATSON.]

Edinburgh: 1864. Octavo.* [Adv. Lib.] BYRON; Salathiel, or the martyrs; and other poems. By Emelia Julia. [Emily BLACKE.]

London, 1855. Octavo. Pp. 143.* [Bodl.]

BYZANTIUM. [By George VENABLES.]

Cambridge: [1830.] Octavo. Pp. 8.

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