Book industries and trade - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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Athenianism or, the new projects of Mr. John Dunton, author of the essay entitl'd, The hazard of a death-bed-repentance being, six hundred distinct treatises (in prose and verse) written with his own hand; and is an entire collection of all his writings, both in manuscript, and such as were formerly printed. To which is added, Dunton's farewel to printing. In some serious thoughts on those words of Solomon, Of making many Books there is no End, and muc[h] study is a weariness of the flesh. Vol. I. With the author's effigies, to distinguish the original and true copies from such as are false and imperfect. Take care also of being cheated by wooden cuts the right is that which is drawn and 'grav'd by then two celebrated artists, Knight and Vander Gucht. To this work is prefix'd an heroick poem upon Dunton's projects, written by the Athenian Society; with an alphabetical table of the several projects, questions, novelties, poems and characters inserted in this volume[.].
John DuntonDate: [1710]- E-books
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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition for Daniel Midwinter, William Innes, Aaron Ward, and others, ball of London booksellers, and William Elliot writer in Edinburgh their attorney or factor, pursuers, ..
Date: 1747]- E-books
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The book-binder, book-printer, and book-seller confuted Or, The author's vindication of himself, from the calumnies in a paper, industriously dispers'd by one Edlin. Together with some observations on the history of the Bible, as it is at present publish'd by the said Edlin. By the Reverend Mr. Stackhouse, curate of Finchley.
Stackhouse, Thomas, ca. 1680-1752.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- E-books
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A new review, embellished with portraits, and illustrated by biography. Prospectus of the New London review; or, monthly report of authors and books
Date: 1798]