Page images
PDF
EPUB

their execution. III. The Surrey demoniack. With all the testimonies and informations taken upon oath relating thereunto. The authorship is acknowledged by Boulton in the preface to the "Vindication," in answer to Dr. Francis Hutchinson, and published in 1722 with the author's

name.

COMPLEAT (the) history of the warrs in Scotland under the conduct of the illustrious and truly-valiant Iames Marquesse of Montrose, General for his majestie Charles 1st. in that kingdome, together with a brief character of him, as also a true relation of his foreign negotiations, landing, defeat, apprehension, tryal, and deplorable death in the time of Charls 2d. Newly corrected and enlarged by an eye-witnesse of all the fore-mentioned passages. [By George WISHART.]

Printed in the year, 1660. Octavo.* [Bodl.] COMPLEAT (a) key to the Non-Juror. Explaining the characters in that play, with observations thereon. By Mr Joseph Gay. [Alexander POPE.] The

third edition.

London: 1718. Duodecimo.

Pp. 25.

Four leaves unpaged. Pagination begins at 5.* [Carruthers' Life of Pope, 2d ed., p. 158.]

COMPLEAT (a) key to the seventh edition of the Dispensary. [By Sir Samuel GARTH.]

London: 1714. Duodecimo.* [Dyce
Cat., i. 328.]

COMPLEAT (the) library: or, news for the ingenious. Containing severall original pieces An historicall account of the choicest books printed in England, and in the forreign journals. Notes on the memorable passages happening in May. As also, the state of learning in the world. To be published monthly. May, 1692. By a London divine, &c. [Richard WOOLEY.]

London, 1692. Quarto. Pp. 2. b. t. 480.* [Bodl.]

COMPLEAT (the) mineral laws of Derbyshire, taken from the originals. I. The High Peak laws, with their customs. II. Stony Middleton and Eame, with a new article made 1733. III. The laws of the manour of Ashforth-i' th'-water. IV. The Low Peak articles, with their laws and customs. V. The customs and laws of the Liberty of Litton. VI. The laws of the Lord

ship of Tidswell. And all their bills of plaint, customs, cross-bills, arrests, plaintiff's case, or brief, with all other forms necessary for all miners and maintainers of mines, within each manour, lordship, or wapentake. [By George STEER.]

London: 1734. Octavo. Pp. vii. 176.* [Upcott, i. 142.]

COMPLEAT (the) office of the Holy
Week, with notes and explications out
of Latin and French. [By Walter
Kirkham BLOUNT.]

London: 1687. Octavo. [W., Lowndes,
Bibliog. Man.]

COMPLEAT (a) treatise of urines, shewing the right method of urinal prognostication, far different from the common practice of quacks and mountebanks. By T. H. [T. HICKES.] Pharmacop. Rustican.

London: 1703. Duodecimo. [W.] COMPLEAT (a) vindication of the licensers of the stage from the malicious and scandalous aspersions of Mr [Henry] Brooke, author of Gustavus Vasa. With a proposal for making the office of licenser more extensive and effectual. By an impartial hand. [Samuel JOHNSON, LL.D.]

London: 1739. Quarto. [W., Brit. Mus.] COMPLETE (a) and final detection of Ad Br [Archibald Bower]; containing a summary view of the evidence formerly produced against him; a confutation of the evasions and subterfuges in his several defences; and many new demonstrations of the fictions of the pretended convert, on the authority of original papers, certificates and attestations, now first published. To which is added, a postscript, in answer to Some very remarkable facts &c. [by John Corpe]; and an appendix containing the original papers. By the author of the Full confutation, &c. [John DOUGLAS, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury.]

London, 1758. Octavo. Pp. 158.* COMPLETE (a) collection of genteel and ingenious conversation, according to the most polite mode and method now used at Court, and in the best In three companies of England. dialogues. By Simon Wagstaff, Esq; [Jonathan SWIFT.]

London: M. DCC. XXXVIII. Octavo.*

COMPLETE (the) confectioner; or the whole art of confectionary. By a person, late apprentice to Messrs Negri and Witten, of Berkley Square. [F. NUTT.]

London: 1789. Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

COMPLETE (the) English farmer; or, a practical system of husbandry, founded upon natural, certain, and obvious principles; in which is comprized a general view of the whole art of agriculture, exhibiting the different effects of cultivating land according to the usage of the old and new husbandry. The whole exemplified by a series of suitable management, from the first apportionment of a farm from the waste, to the time of perfecting it by proper cultivation in every part. To which is added, particular directions for the culture of every species of grain in common use, and a new method of tillage recommended, partaking of the simplicity of the old husbandry, and of all the advantages of the new. Illustrated with plans of the necessary buildings belonging to a farm-house; and an attempt to establish a rule for constructing barns, which may be applied to all dimensions; also accurate delineations of some newly-invented farming instruments. By a practical farmer, and a friend of the late Mr Jethro Tull, author of the Horsehoeing husbandry. [David HENRY.] 1772. [Gent. Mag., June 1792. p. 578-9.] COMPLETE (the) English tradesman, in familiar letters; directing him in all the several parts and progressions of trade. Viz. I. His acquainting himself with business during his apprenticeship. II. His writing to his correspondents, and obtaining a general knowledge of trade; as well what he is not, as well as what he is employ'd in. III. Of diligence and application, as the life of all business. IV. Cautions against over-trading. V. Of the ordinary occasions of a tradesman's ruin; such as expensive living-Too early marrying-Innocent diversionsGiving and taking too much creditLeaving business to servants-Being above business-Entering into dangerous partnerships, &c. VI. Directions in the several distresses of a tradesman, when he comes to fail. VII. Of tradesmen compounding with their debtors, and why they are so particularly severe. VIII. Of tradesmen ruining one another by rumour and

scandal. IX. Of the customary frauds of trade, which even honest men allow themselves to practise. X. Of credit, and how it is only supported by honesty. XI. Directions for book-keeping, punctually paying bills, and thereby maintaining credit. XII. Of the dignity and honour of trade in England, more than in other countries; and how the trading families in England are mingled with the nobility and gentry, so as not to be separated or distinguished. Calculated for the instruction of our inland tradesmen ; and especially of young beginners. [By Daniel DEFOE.]

London: M,DCC, XXVI. Octavo. Pp. xv. 447.*

COMPLETE (the) English tradesman, Vol II. In two parts. Part I. Directed chiefly to the more experienc'd tradesmen; with cautions and advices to them after they [have] thriven and suppos'd to be grown rich, viz. I. Against running out of their business into needless projects and dangerous adventures, no tradesman being above disaster. II. Against oppressing one another by engrossing, underselling, combinations in trade, &c. III. Advices, that when he leaves off his business, he should part friends with the world; the great advantages of it; with a word of the scandalous character of a purse-proud tradesman. IV. Against being litigious and vexatious, and apt to go to law for trifles; with some reasons why tradesmen's differences should, if possible, be all ended by arbitration. Part II. Being useful generals in trade, describing the principles and foundation of the home trade of Great Britain; with large tables of our manufactures, calculations of the product, shipping, carriages of goods by land, importation from abroad, consumption at home, &c. by all of which the infinite number of our tradesmen are employ'd, and the general wealth of the nation rais'd and increas'd. The whole calculated for the use of all our inland tradesmen, as well in the city as in the country. [By Daniel DEFOE.]

London: 1727. Octavo. [Wilson, Life of
Defoe.]

[blocks in formation]

prising instructions for the buying, breeding, rearing, and fattening of cattle. Directions for the choice of the best breeds of live stock. The treatment of their diseases, and the management of cows and ewes, during the critical times of calving and yeaning. The general economy of a grass farm, especially irrigation, or watering of meadows; culture of the best natural and artificial grasses and plants for fodder; various methods of cutting, mixing, and preparing food in severe winters, and seasons of scarcity; the economy and general management of the dairy, including the making, curing, and preservation of butter and cheese, &c. &c. Together with a synoptical table of the different breeds of neat cattle, sheep, and swine. By a Lincolnshire grazier [Thomas Hartwell HORNE, D.D.], assisted by communications from several Yorkshire, Leicester, & Norfolk farmers. Illustrated by engravings.

London: 1805. Octavo. Pp. 2. b. t. 510. [Reminiscences of T. H. Horne, P. 17.]

...

COMPLETE history of Cornwall: part II. being the parochial history. [By William HALS.]

[About 1750.] Folio. Pp. 160.

The first part was never printed. There is no general title-page. [Upcott, i. 80.] COMPLETE (a) history of Spanish America; containing a distinct account of the discovery, settlement, trade, and present condition of New Mexico, Florida, New Galicia, Guatimala, Cuba, Hispaniola, Terra Firma, Quito, Lima, La Plata, Chili, Buenos Ayres, &c. With a particular detail of the commerce with old Spain by the galeons, flota, &c. As also of the contraband trade with the English, Dutch, French, Danes, and Portuguese. Together with an appendix, in which is comprehended an exact description, of Paraguay. Collected chiefly from Spanish writers. [By John Campbell, LL.D.]

London: 1741. Octavo. [Rich, Bib.
Amer., i. 68.]

The Concise History of 1741, (No. 14,)
with a
new title; two more new titles
for the same book were printed in 1747.

COMPLETE (a) history of the boroughs

of Great Britain and the Cinque Ports. [By T. H. B. OLDFIELD.] 2 vols. London, 1794- Octavo. [Athen. Cat., P. 227.]

COMPLETE (a) key to the last new farce [by John Gay] The what d'ye call it. To which is prefix'd a hypercritical preface on the nature of burlesque, and the poets design. [By Benjamin GRIFFIN and Lewis THEOBALD.]

London; 1715. Octavo.*

COMPLETE (a) key to the three parts of Law is a bottomless-pit, and the Story of the St. Alban's ghost. [By William WAGSTAFFE.]

Printed in the year M.DCC.XII. Octavo.* COMPLETE paradigms of the Chaldee verbs regular and irregular. [Edited by R. YOUNG.]

Edinburgh: [1855.] Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

COMPLETE (a) refutation of the false notions on the Messiah &c., printed in a pamphlet against the city of Zion, by John Collins [By C. W. TWORT?] Birmingham: 1830. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

COMPLETE (a) vindication of the Mallard of All-Souls' College, against the injurious suggestions of the Rev. Mr. Pointer, rector of Slapton in the county of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. To the remembrance of the Mallard. [By Benjamin BUCKLER, D.D.] The second edition. London, MDCCLI. Quarto.* [Watt, Bib. Brit.]

COMPLIMENTARY (a) epistle to James Bruce, Esq. the Abyssinian traveller : by Peter Pindar Esq. [John WOLCOTT.] The third edition. London: MDCCXC. Quarto.'

COMPOSITOR'S

*

(the) handbook : designed as a guide in the composing With the practice as to book,

room.

job, newspaper, law, and parliamentary work; the London scale of prices; appendix of terms, etc. [By Thomas FORD.]

London: 1854. Octavo. Pp. viii. 262.* [Adv. Lib.] Preface signed T. F. COMPREHENSION and toleration consider'd; in a sermon [on Gal. II. 5] preach'd at the close of the last century. [By Robert SOUTH, D.D.] London: MDCCXVI. Octavo.* [Bodl.] COMPREHENSION promoted. Whether there be not as much reason, in regard to the ease of the most

sober consciences, to take away the subscription in the Act of Uniformity, as well as the Declaration of assent and consent? [By John HUMFREY.] No separate title. Quarto.*

COMPREHENSIVE Bible, with the various readings and marginal notes, a general introduction, introductions and concluding remarks to each Book, the parallel passages systematically arranged, philological and explanatory notes, also chronological and other indexes [by William GREENFIELD]. London: 1827. Quarto. [Lowndes, Brit. Lib., p. 129.]

COMPREHENSIVE (a) view of the nature of faith, according to the several acceptations in which the term is used in sacred Scripture. By a cordial well-wisher to the cause of universal truth and righteousness. [Priscilla Hannah GURNEY.]

London: 1816. Octavo. 234 sh. [Smith's
Cat. of Friends' books, i. 86.]

COMPRESSED (a) view of the points

to be discussed in treating with the United States of America, A.D. 1814. With an appendix, and two maps. [By Nathaniel ATCHESON.]

1814. Octavo. Some copies in Quarto. [Rich. Bib. Amer., ii. 72.]

COMPROMISE (the): or, faults on both sides. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in LincolnsInn-Fields. By the author of The distressed bride. [John STURMY.] London: 1723. Octavo. Pp. 4. 78. 2.* [Biog. Dram.]

COMPTON friars. A tale of English country life. By the author of " Mary Powell." [Anne MANNING.]

London 1872. Octavo. Pp. viii. 278.*

[blocks in formation]

Wales. The principal performers were the Lord Brackly, Mr. Tho. Egerton, the Lady Alice Egerton. The musick was composed by Mr. Henry Lawes, who also represented the attendant spirit. [By John DALTON, D.D.] The second edition.

London: MDCCXXXVIII. Octavo. Pp. 61.* [Biog. Dram.]

CONA, or the vale of Clwyd, and other poems. [By James GRAY.]

Edinburgh: 1816. Duodecimo. [Steven's History of the High School, Appendix, p. 107.]

CONAUGHT (the) wife. See Connaught, &c.

CONCERNING Christ the spiritual and holy Head over his holy Church and his Church's stedfastness, and confidence, and unity and oneness in him. G. F. [George Fox.]

Printed in the year, 1677. Quarto. Pp. 39.* [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 676.] CONCERNING doubt. A letter to "A Layman," by a clergyman. [Richard TYRWHITT, M.A.]

Oxford & London: 1861. Octavo.* [Bodl.]

CONCERNING doubt. A reply to "A clergyman." By a layman. [Goldwin SMITH, M.A.]

Oxford: 1861. Octavo.* [Bodl.]

[ocr errors]

CONCERNING good morrow, and good-even; the worlds customs but by the light which into the world is come, by it made manifest to all who be in the darkness. G. F. [George Fox.]

London, 1657. Quarto.* [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 653.]

CONCERNING images and idolatry. [By Abraham WOODHEAD.]

Oxford, 1689. Quarto. Pp. 5. b. t. 83.* "This book was never yet published, but printed by Mr Obadiah Walker in the stables belonging to University College, where the greatest part of the edition was seized, but Mr Walker himself, gave this book to Mr Hudson who gave it here." -MS. note in the Bodleian copy.

CONCERNING marriage: how God made them male and female in the beginning, and how he joyned them together, before they were drove from God into the earth, and then the

manner of marriage before the law, and then the marriage in the law, and the marriage among the Christians n the primitive times; and the marriage of the apostate Christians, and Jews and Gentiles, where hardness of heart was, there men put a sunder: but where God joynes together, let none put a sunder, that is as it was in the beginning before man was driven from God into the earth, out of the defiled bed in the dominion, in the unity with all saints, so not to be hid from them. [By George Fox].

London. 1661. Quarto.* [Smith's Cat. of Friends' books, i. 659.] Signed G. F.

CONCERNING some Scotch surnames. [By Cosmo INNES.]

Edinburgh: 1860. Octavo. Pp. 1. b. t. 69.* Dedication signed C. I.

CONCERNING the antiquity of the people of God, called Quakers; their worship; their mother, new and heavenly Jerusalem; their faith, and who is the author and finisher of it; their belief; their way; their original; their hope, distinct from the hope of the hypocrite that perishes; their Gospel; the true ministers; their leader and teacher, and that which gives them knowledge, their mediator; their overseer; the Church of Christ's prayer, and in what; their cross; and their baptism. By G. F. [George Fox.]

[blocks in formation]

CONCERNING the apostate Christians

that think to do miracles by dead men's bones, &c. Of praying to the saints that are dead, and asking counsel of the dead, and praying for the dead. Concerning progatory (sic), and making a God or Christ of the element of bread and wine. Concerning the traditions the Jews taught, which made the word and commandment of God of none effect, and the traditions the apostate Christians teach people to follow, and set up above the Scriptures of truth. How Christ is the true rock and not Peter and that he is the head of the true Church and so to be held by his members. The antiquity of the Cross of Christ, which was and is acknowledged to be the power of God by his true Church. [By George Fox.]

London, 1688. Quarto.* [Smith's Cat, of Friends' books, i. 687.] Signed G. F.

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

CONCERNING this present Cain, in his generation, the unbelieving and wicked heathen, etc. [By Henry GUIFTHAILE.]

London: 1648. Quarto. Pp. 8.

In the British Museum copy is the following note by G. Thomason,-"Writen by Henry Guifthaile ye German Profitt of ye tribe of Juda."

CONCHOLOGIST'S (the) companion; comprising the instincts and constructions of testaceous animals; with a general sketch of those extraordinary productions which connect the vegetable and animal kingdoms. By the author of "Select female biography;" "Wonders of the vegetable kingdom;" &c. &c. [Mary ROBERTS.]

London: 1824. Duodecimo. Pp. xii. 251.* [Brit. Mus.]

[blocks in formation]
« PreviousContinue »