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Proposals for publishing, by subscription, a print Christ Church Great Gate, Oxford, form a drawing by W. Delamotte, to be engravec by James Fittler, engraver to His Majesty. Conditions. The size of the print to be fifteen inches and a half wide, by twenty-one inches high. Price of the prints, fifteen shillings; proof impressions, twenty-five shillings. Half to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the remainder on delivering of the prints. A few will be printed in colours, in imitation of the drawing.
Delamotte, William Alfred, 1775-1863.Date: 1800]
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Proposals for publishing a mathematical and philosophical dictionary; Containing an explanation of the terms, an an account of the several subjects. Comprized under the heads mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy, both natural and experimental; with an historical account of the rise, progress and present state of these sciences: also memoirs of the lives and writings of the most eminent authors. Both ancient and modern, who by their discoteries or improvement have contributed to the advancement of them in two large volumes. With many cuts and copper-plates. By Charles Hutton, LL.D. F.R.S. And professor of mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.Date: [1794?]
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, in the course of the next spring, in one volume quarto, accompanied with seventeen plates, an account and explanation of the paintings and other ornaments and decorations, discovered in the month of September last one the walls of the present House of Commons. Including also, besides the history of these decorations and the building itself, a variety of original particulars as to the ancient state of the city of Westminster, and the place and other buildings there, and the principles and history of painting and gothic architecture. By John Sidney Hawkins, Esq.F.A.S. The plates engraven by Mr. John Thomas Smith, from drawings made by himself on the spot.
Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842.Date: [1800]
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, the history and antiquities of Staffordshire. Compiled not only from the MSS. of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttleton , and other valuable collections of Dr. Wilkes, and Rev. T. Feilde; but from actual surveys, extracts from the record-office, the public libraries of Cambridge and Oxford, the British Museum, the Herald's college ...
Shaw, Stebbing, 1762-1802.Date: 1794]
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Proposals for publishing by subscription a complete collection of the works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; printed from the best editions, with considerable improvements and additions from his original manuscripts: particularly letters upon various subjects, written by himself and his friends, and some tracts never before published. To the whole will be prefixed a new account of his life, partly from memoirs drawn up by himself: together with his effects curiously engraven from an original painting, in the possession of Dr. Mead. At the end will be added a complete index.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: 1741]
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Proposals for printing by subscription, the topographical, biographical, and natural history of Gloucestershire: Comprehending the antient and present state of that county.
Rudder, Samuel, 1726-1801.Date: 1767]
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Proposals, for printing by subscription, sermons, on various important subjects, By the Rev. William Holcombe, A.M. canon residentiary of St. Davids, and late Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. In three volumes, octavo. At one Guinea in boards; to be paid at the time of subscribing. The sermons are ready for the Press, and will be printed and delivered as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers can be procured.
Holcombe, William, 1736-1796.Date: [1796]
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Proposals for printing by subscription, in octavo, the Scots antiquarian miscellany. Comprehending the most authentic account of the origin of the Scots, with the boundaries of their kingdom before they conquered the picts;-an account of their ancient kings, and of berigonium (or dunmacsnichain) the ancient chief city of the Scots;-with an account of the Kings of the Isles, and of the Orkncys. Also an account of the kingdom of the picts, of their Kings, monuments of antiquity, &c.;-an account of druid temples, altars, burying-places, groves, &c.;-an account of the Roman Walls, encampments, stations, out-posts, ports, coins, medals, monumental inscriptions, &c. that have been found in Scotland; with an historical and genealogical account of the noble families, and a natural history of the parishes in Scotland. Subscriptions taken in by John Gillies, the publisher; Mess. Elliot, Creech, and Balfour, Edinburgh; Mess. Gillies, Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow; Mr J. Murray, and T. Philipe, London.
Date: 1784]
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Proposals for printing by subscription. A new edition of the description of Leicestershire. Containing matters of antiquity, history, armory and genealogy. By the late William Burton, Esq.
Burton, William, 1575-1645.Date: 1777?]
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Proposals for printing by subscription reliques of Irish poetry: Consisting of heroic tales, odes, elegies, and songs, translated into English verse, with notes explanatory and historical; to which will be subjoined a legendary tale. By Miss Brooke.
Brooke, Charlotte, 1740-1793.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, dedicated to his grace the Duke of Norfolk, Illustrations of British history, biography, and manners, in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Elizabeth, and James I, exhibited in a series of original papers selected from the manuscripts of the noble families of Howard, Talbot, and Cecil; Containing, among a variety of intersteresting pieces, the secret correspondence of Elizaveth, and her ministers. With George, the sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, durig the fifteen years in which Mary Queen of Scots remained in his custody: with numerous notes and observation. By Edmund Lodge, Esq. Pursuivant of Arms, and F.S.A. ornamented with portraits and authographs.
Lodge, Edmund, 1756-1839.Date: 1790]
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Proposals for printing by subscription, a book entitled Nummorum antiquorum scriniis Bodeleianis reconditorum catalogus. Or, A catalogue of all the ancient coins in the cabinet of the Bodleian Library at Oxford. By Francis Wise B.D. fellow of Trinity College.
Wise, Francis, 1695-1767.Date: 1750?]
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Proposals for the continuation of an iconical supplement or figures, to that celebrated botanist Mr. John Ray his universal history of plants. By James Petiver, Fellow of the Royal society, in Aldersgate-street, London.
Petiver, James, 1663 or 1664-1718.Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]
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Proposals for printing by subscription. A large new catalogue of the bishops of the several sees within the kingdom of Scotland, down to the year 1688.
Keith, Robert, 1681-1757.Date: 1753]
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Proposals for publishing by subscription. A new, large, beautiful and most correct map of Middlesex, Essex and Hertfordshire, (and the rest of the counties in England and Wales) by an actual survey and dimensuration: with the coats of arms and seats of the nobility and gentry, as in those or Yorkshire and Northumberland already published by John Warburton Esq; Somerset Herald at Arms and F.R.S.
Warburton, John, 1682-1759.Date: 1720]
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Proposals for publishing, by subscription, a print, representing an interior view of Westminster Abbey, from the east entrance; to be drawn by F. Nash, and engraved in aquatint by G. Hawkins.
Date: 1800]
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, in twenty-four volumes royal octavo, a new edition of a general abridgment of law and equity, Alphabetically digested under proper titles; with notes and references to the whole. By Charles Viner, Esq. founder of the vinerian lecture in the University of Oxford.
Viner, Charles, 1678-1756.Date: [1791]
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, a collection of views, taken on and near the River Rhine, at Aix-La-Chapelle, and the River Maese; By the Rev. John Gardnor: to be engraved in acqua tinta, By R. Dodd. The work to consist of eight numbers; each containing four prints, descriptions of the scenes and objects, and hints of occurrences in the tour. Size of the prints, 20 inches by 17. The price of each number, one guinea to subseribers, coloured, three guineas. Poor impressions, one guinea and half. Subscribers names are received by Mr. Walter bookseller, Charing-Cross; where specimens of the work may be seen. No money required in advance; the number to be paid for on delivery. A list of subscribers will be printed with the work.
Gardnor, John, 1729-1808.Date: 1788]
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, A history of Great Britain, From the revolution to the present time. By G. Gregory, D.D.F.A.S. domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Landaff, and author of essays historical and moral, &c. The work will consist of four volumes quarto, printed in the most elegant manner on the finest vellum paper, and ornamented with historical engravings (in which the portraits of remarkable personages will be preserved), designed and executed by the most eminent artists. Each volume will be published separately, at the moderate price of 1l. 11s. 6d. to be paid on delivery. The price will be necessarily raised to non-subscribers. The first volume will be prepared for the prese with all possible expedition. The names of the subscribers will be received by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard; J. Sewell, Cornhill; J. Debrett, Piccadilly; T. Hookham, New Bond-Street; G. and C. Kearsley, Fleet-Street and at the London Library, Ludgate-Hill.
Gregory, G. (George), 1754-1808.Date: 1792]
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Proposals for printing, by subscribtion, fables, philosophical and moral, in verse.
Date: [1771]
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Proposals for printing by subscription, ancient poems of Ullin, Ossian, Orran, &c. In the original Galic: by John Smith, minister of Kilbrandon.
Date: 1781]
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Proposals for printing by subscription; (instead of an interleav'd Bible, formerly advertis'd;) authentick records concerning the Jewish and Christian religions: in three volumes octavo; with a large map, six foot square. By William Whiston, M.A. sometime professor of the mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1724]
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Proposals for printing, by subscription, a new dictionary of the Welch and English language. In two volumes, octavo. Volume I. to be Welch and English; and the second volume, English and Welch, or the English words followed by the Welch interpretations.
Richards, William, 1749-1818.Date: 1797?]
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Proposals, for publishing a large map of Warwickshire, upon four sheets of atlas paper, from entire new plates, of the same size, and plan, as Beighton's; with modern improvements. Conditions. I. That it shall be put into the hands of one of the best engravers, as soon as a sufficient number are subscribed for. II. That it shall be improved, by delineating the canals, new roads, &c. made since the time when Beighton's map was publish'd. III. The price of the map will be One Guinea; in stretch'd on canvas with rollers, one pound six shillings.-No money will be required till the delivery of the map. To be published by J. Sharp, bookseller and printer in Warwick, where the names of subscribers will be received.- Also at Messrs. Sayer & Bennett, map & print-sellers, Fleet-Street, Mr. Brooke, stationer, Cheapside London; and at most of the booksellers in Warwickshire, and the adjacent counties.
Date: 1785]
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Proposals for printing by subscription annals of the reformation and establihment [sic] of religion; and other various occurrences in the Church of England. In two volumes. During the first twenty three years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. In which period of time there is little of the ecclesiastical history of this nation extant. Wherein accounts are given of our bishops from year to year; and of their cares and diligence in the government of their several sees: and the difficulties and discouragements they often met with in the discharge thereof: the oppositions and endeavours of the Romanists, and other disaffected parties and factions, to undermine the church and its constitution: and what courses were taken with them from time to time; for the safety of the Queen, and the preservation of the church established. Also, what was done in Parliaments, (chiefly with respect to religion) convocations, ecclesiastical commissions, and episcopal visitations. Together with various other matters intermixed, relating to the state of learning in the universities, and to civil and political affairs of remarks; falling with in the aforesaid compass of years; serving to rectify mistakes, and to supply many deficiencies in our histories. Finally, what books of note were published yearly, with some accounts of them. Chiefly collected from original, viz. Papers of state, letters, records, registers, and other authentick Mss. preserved in the publck, as well as private archives, and libraries in this kingdom. With an appendix of near an hundred of those originals, examplisied at length; referred in the foregoing history. By John Strype, M.A.
Strype, John, 1643-1737.Date: 1724?]