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Proposals for publishing by subscription, A liberal translation of the New Testament ; ... By E. Harwood. ...
Date: 1765]- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription, in two volumes octavo, the works complete, In verse and prose, of Robert Merry, A. M. To be delivered on or before the 1st Day of May, 1796. The Subscription one Guinea, To be paid at the Time of Subscribing. Subscriptions will be received by Mess. Cadell and Davies, in the Strand; Mess. Robinsons, Paternoster-Row; and Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly.
Merry, Robert, 1755-1798.Date: 1796]- Books
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The New Shakspeare [sic].
Date: 1792]- Books
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Proposals for publishing in weekly numbers, Mr. Chambers's Cyclopædia ; or, universal dictionary of arts and sciences : ...In four volumes. ...
Chambers, Ephraim, approximately 1680-1740.Date: 1777]- Books
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On the first day of June, 1794, will be published, Price 1s. 6d. No. I. of a new work, to be continued monthly, intituled, The repertory of arts and manufactures.
Date: 1794]- Books
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Proposals for engraving and printing by subscription twenty large prints, on Imperial Paper, Representing the procession ceremonies observ'd at the Time of the Installation of the Knights Companions Of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath: Upon Thursday, June 17, 1725. With the Arms, Names, Titles, &c. of the Knights Companions, and of their Esquires, As they are fix'd up in Henry Viith's Chapel in Westminster-Abbey. By John Pine.
Pine, John, 1690-1756.Date: 1730?]- Books
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New pamphlets just publish'd, and sold by the booksellers in town and country.
Date: 1731?]- Books
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Speedily will be published, in quarto, by subscription, The modes of quotation used by the evangelical writers explained and vindicated. By the Rev. Henry Owen, M.D. F.R.S. Rector of St. Olave, Hart-Street, and Vicar of Edmonton, Middlesex. Subscriptions (at half a guinea each, the full Price of the Work) are received by Mr. Pugh, Spring Gardens; by Mr. Edwards, Clerk of St. Olave's; by Mr. Fletcher at Oxford; by Mr. Merrill at Cambridge; by Mr. Burdon at Winchester; Mr. Eddowes, Shrewsbury; Mr. L. White, or Mr. P. Byrne, Dublin; and by J. Nichols, Printer, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-Street.
Owen, Henry, 1716-1795.Date: 1788]- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription, Poems on several occasions. By the Rev. Mr. Thomas Warton, ...
Warton, Thomas, 1688?-1745.Date: 1746]- Books
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Just published by James Hoey, Junior. Article I. The ladies complete letter writer; teaching the art of inditing letters on overy subject that can call for their attention, as daughers, wives, mothers, relations, friends, acquaintance, or mistresses of families; ...
Hoey, James, active 1759-1781.Date: 1763?]- Books
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On Saturday, May 7, 1791, will be published, No.1. Price six-pence, (to be continued weekly,) of the General Register of philosophy, literature and politics.
Date: [1791]- Books
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General plan for the better relief of the poor. It is intended, with all convenient speed, to publish, and as soon as a sufficient subscription is received, to solicit for an act of Parliament to be passed, to authorise justices of the peace to put into effect, in their several districts. A new and general regulation for the management of the poor, ...
Jones, John, grocer.Date: [1790?]- Books
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The oracle, being calculated for the answering questions in all arts and sciences, either serious, comical, or humerous [sic], both in prose and poetry.
Smith, Marshall.Date: 1715]- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription a novel. Entitled, The happy-unfortunate; or, the female page. In three parts. By Louisa.
Boyd, Elizabeth, active 1730-1744.Date: 1732?]- Books
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, twenty four perspective views of the present state of the most noted abbies, religious foundations, castles, and other remains of antiquity, in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. By Samuel and Nathaniel Buck. ...
Buck, Samuel, 1696-1779.Date: 1737]- Books
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Shakespeare. Mr. Alderman Boydell, Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol, propose to publish by subscription a most magnificent and accurate edition of the plays of Shakespeare, in eight volumes Of the largest Quarto Size, on the finest Royal Atlag Paper, to be fabricated for that Purpose by Mr. Whatman. The Letter-Press will be executed by Mr. Hughs, with a Set of New Types cast by Mr. Caslon. The text to be regulated, and the Literary Part of the Undertaking conducted, By George Steevens, Esq. To accompany this work Messieurs Boydell intend to publish by subscription a series of large and capital prints After Pictures to be immediately painted by the following Artists, from the most striking Scenes in the same Author: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait-Painter to his Majesty, and President of the Royal Academy. angelica kauffman, R.A. Mr. Barry, R. A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy. Mr. Copley, R. A. Mr. Fuseli. Mr. Miller. Mr. Northcote. Mr. Opie. Rev. Mr. Peters, R. A. Mr. Rigaud, R. A. Mr. Romney. Mr. West, R. A. History-Painter to his Majesty. Mr. Wright, &c &c &c. To be engraved by Miss Caroline Watson. Mr. Bartolozzi, Historical Engraver to his Majesty. Mr. Collier. Mess. Facius. Mr. Fittler, Marine Engraver to his Majesty. Mr. Hall. Mr. Haward, A. R. Mr. Heath. Mr. Legatt. Mr. Michel. Mr. Ryder. Mr. Sharpe, &c &c &c. The pictures will be of various Sizes, chiefly as large as Life. As soon as they have all been engraved, they will be hung up in a Gallery built on Purpose, and called the Gallery of Shakspeare.
Date: 1786- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription, The history of England, from the coronation of King William and Queen Mary to the eighth year of the reign of his present Majesty King George II. By J. Templeman, Esq;
Templeman, J.Date: 1734]- Books
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On the first day of April next will be published, and afterwards continued in monthly numbers, price two shillings and sixpence each. A journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts: ... By William Nicolson.
Date: 1797]- Books
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Hume's History of England, with Portraits. On Saturday, May 2, will be Published, Price one shilling, (to be continued Weekly till the whole is completed) No I. Containing Six Sheets of Letter-Press, and a Head of the Author engraved by Collyer, of the History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. By David Hume, Esq; With the Author's last Corrections and Improvements. Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; and sold by T. Longman, No. 39, Paternoster-Row. Conditions. I. The Work will make Eight Volumes in Octavo, handsomely printed on a large Letter and on a Medium Paper. II. Each Number will contain Five or more Sheets, so that the whole may not exceed Forty-Eight Numbers, at One Shilling each. III. In the course of the Work will be given a series of Portraits of the different Sovereigns of England from the Conquest to the Revolution, engraved from original Pictures by Hall, Sherwin, Heath, Collyer, &c. &c. and ornamented with new emblematical Designs by Stothard. IV. In the course of publication will be given an Account of the Life of the Author written by Himself, and a copious Index. V. Most of the Plates are already finished, and Specimens of the Print, Paper, and Engravings, may be seen at the Publisher's. - In order to form a complete History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George the Second, the Proprietors intend to publish, immediately after Mr. Hume's History is completed, in Weekly Numbers, Dr. Smollett's History from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second; and that the Paper, Print, and Portraits shall in every respect correspond with the above Work.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.Date: 1782]- Books
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Proposals for publishing by subscription from the curious and elaborate works of Thomas Simon, Chief Graver of the Mint in the Tower of London, in the reign of King Charles I. The Common Wealth of England, the Ld. Protector Oliver Cromwell, and to the government in the beginning of the reign of King Charles II. a book of these engraved prints in quarto. Drawn and done from the medals, coins, great-seals impressions, now remaining and preserved in the cabinets of the curious. With a description of each plate to be annexed, and some particulars printed of his life and imployment: with some account of his brother Abraham Simon, an excellent modeller in wax.
Vertue, George, 1684-1756.Date: 1753?]- Books
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Books printed for Thomas Cox, at the Lamb under the Royal Exchange.
Cox, Thomas, -1754.Date: 1727]- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription, Voyages and travels in Africa and the West-Indies, from the year 1771, to the year 1779 inclusive. By Henry Smeathman.
Smeathman, Henry, -1786.Date: 1780]- Books
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Sketch of a proposal to make an actual survey and publish an accurate map of the county of Cambridge. By Charles Vancouver.
Vancouver, Charles, active 1765-1813.Date: 1790?]- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription, In two volumes Octavo, A new version of the Paradise lost. In which The Spirit and Stile of the Author, are effectually preserved and successfully imitated; The Beauties of the Original, where stiff or obscure, rendered easy, more intelligible and striking, to the Understanding of the Reader; The weaker Parts of the Poem better supported The Heathen Fables and Improprieties excepted to by Addison, Bentley, Newton, and other Writers, removed or amended; And, The Verses that run one into another, and have too much Continuance, better adapted to the less learned Reader, by endeavouring to end the Sense with the Distich: By which that amazing Work is brought something nearer the Summit of Perfection. With Annotations on the Original Text, (far different from those of any other Writer) To shew the Reasonableness of this new version. By G. S. Green. Price to subscribers Eight Shillings in Sheets; Four Shillings of which is to be paid at the Time of Subscribing, and Four Shillings more on the Delivery of the Books. Subscriptions are taken in by J. Scott, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, London; W. Jackson, Printer; and by the Author opposite All-Souls College, in Oxford; R. Bond, Bookseller in Glocester; and most other Booksellers in England and Wales.
Milton, John, 1608-1674.Date: 1750?]- Books
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From the time that the august monarch of Spain Charles IV. was graciously pleas'd to bestow a pension for life on G. B. Bodoni, ...
Bodoni, Giambattista, 1740-1813.Date: 1793]