Volume 1

Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature / Samuel Halkett and John Laing.

  • Samuel Halkett
Date:
1926-[1962]
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    A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain A AARON in the wild woods. By Uncle Remus [Joel Chandler Harris]. 8vo. [Cushing’s Init. and Pseud., i., p. 249.] Boston, 1897 ABANDONED. By Louis Zelcoe[L. B. Van Fossen]. Fcap 8vo. [Amer. Cat.] New York, 1901 ABASSAI ; an Eastern novel [from the French of Mile. Fauque], 2 vols. i2mo. [Barbier’s Dictionnaire des Ouvrages A nonymes, i., p. 11.] London, 1759 ABBASSAH, an Arabian tale ; in two cantos. [By B. E. Pote.] 8vo. Pp. 116. [Brit. Mus.] London, 1826 ABBAYE (the) of the Holy Ghost. Here begynneth a matere spekynge of a place that is named the abbay of the Holy Ghost, yl shall be fouded or grouded in a clene conscyence, in which abbaye shall dwelle xxix ladyes ghostly. [By John Alcock, Bishop of Ely.] 4to. [Adv. Lib.] Westmestre [1496 ?] ABBESS (the), a romance. By the author of the Domestic manners of the Americans, etc. [Mrs Frances Trollope, nee Milton]. 3 vols. i2mo. [D.N.B., vol. 57, p. 244.] London, 1833 ABBEY (the) of Ambresbury ; a poem. Part I. [By Samuel Birch.] 4to. [.D.N.B., vol. 5, p. 68.] London, N.D. [1788] Part II. appeared in 1789. ABBEY (the) of Innismoyle : a story of another century. By the author of Early Recollections, etc. [Selina Bun- buryj. Second edition. Fcap 8vo. Pp. 336. [S. J. Brown’s Ireland in Fiction, p. 40.] Dublin, 1829 VOL. I. ABBEY (the) of Kilkhampton ; or, monumental records for the year 1980. Faithfully transcribed from the original inscriptions, which are still perfect, and appear to be drawn up in a stile devoid of fulsome pane¬ gyric, or unmerited detraction ; and compiled with a view to ascertain, with precision, the manners which prevailed in Great Britain during the last fifty years of the eighteenth century. [By Rev. Sir Herbert Croft.] Large 4to. Pp. 75. [D.N.B., vol. 13, p. 209.] London, 1780 The date 1980, near the beginning of the title, prepares the reader for the satirical nature of the contents of the work. This consists of a number of fictitious epitaphs on prominent personages living in 1780 and readily identified at that time. The work was immensely popular: at least fourteen editions appeared. ABBEY (the) of Saint Alban. Some extracts from its early history and a description of its conventual church ; intended chiefly for the use of visitors. [By Henry J. B. Nicholson, D.D.] Second edition. 8vo. Pp. 79. [J. P. Anderson’s Brit. Topography.] London, 1856 Preface signed “ H. J. B. N.” ABBEYCHURCH ; or, self-control and self-conceit. By the author of The Heir of Redclyffe [Charlotte Mary Yonge]. Second edition. 8vo. Pp. vi., 268. London, 1872 In the same volume, and by the same authoress, but with only a half-title, and having a separate pagination, there is “ The Mystery of the Cavern,” pp. 168. A