Volume 1

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

  • Samuel Halkett
Date:
1926-[1962]
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    useful, even to persons of the meanest capacity; in a dialogue between Neophytus, an essentialist clergyman, and Irenaeus, a layman of the Church of England. Second edition, with an appendix. . . . [By Samuel Downes.] 8vo. Pp. vi., 58. [BodL] London, 1722 Preface signed “ S. D.” ABRIDGMENT (an) of the first part of my Ld. Coke’s Institutes ; with some additions explaining many of the difficult cases, and shewing in what points the law has been altered by late resolutions and Acts of Parlia¬ ment. [By William Hawkins.] i2mo. [D. N. B., vol. 25, p. 231.] London, 1711 ABRIDGMENT (an) of the history of the Bible. By the author of a book, entituled, A treatise concerning the causes of the present corruption of Christians, and the remedies thereof [Jean Frederic d’ Ostervald]. i2mo. Pp. 24. [Adv. Lib.\ London, 1715 ABRIDGMENT (an) of the preroga¬ tives of St Ann, mother of the mother of God. With the approbation of the Doctors at Paris ; and thence done into English to accompany the Contempla¬ tions on the life and glory of Holy Mary ; and the Defence of the same ; with some pieces of a like nature. [By William Claggett, D.D.] 4to. Pp. xv., 20. [Jones’ Peck, ii., p. 418.] London, 1688 ABRIDGMENT (an) of the sacred history: being an easy introduction to the reading of the Holy Bible. [By Lady Mayne.] i2mo. Pp. xvii., 124. [Watt’s Bib. Brit.] London, 1770 ABRIDGMENTS of the specifications relating to metals and alloys (except¬ ing iron and steel), A.D. 1623-1859. [By Bennet Woodcroft.] Pt 8vo. London, 1861 ABROAD with the Jimmies: an ac¬ count of a journey through Europe. By Lilian Bell [Mrs A. H. Bogue]. Cr 8vo. [Amer. Cat.\ Boston [Mass.], 1902 ABSALOM and Achitophel; a poem. By John Dryden.] Folio. Pp. 32. Brit. Mus.\. London, 1681 See the next entry ; also a reply under Azaria and Hushai, and a modern parody under A bsolute and A bitofhell. Part II. of Absalom and Achitophel, which appeared in 1682, was more the work of Nahum Tate than of John Dryden. This satire was directed against the Duke of Monmouth, who resembled Absalom in personal beauty, popularity, and shameful treatment of his father; and against the Earl of Shaftesbury, who had already been nicknamed Achitophel, the traitorous adviser of King David and co-conspirator with Absalom. ABSALOM Senior; or, Achitophel transpros’d: a poem. [By Elkanah Settle.] Folio. Pp. 38. \Dyce Cat., i., p. 273.] London, 1682 AB-SA-RA-KA (Home of the Crows). By an officer’s wife [Mrs Margaret Irvin Carrington]. 8vo. [Kirk’s Supplement, i., p. 295.] Philadelphia, 1868 ABSENT (the) man : a farce ; as it is acted by His Majesty’s servants, at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane. [By Isaac Bickerstaff] 8vo. Pp. 36. [Watt’s Bibl. Brit.] London, 1768 ABSENTE reo. By the author of Pro Christo et ecclesia [Lily Doug all]. Cr 8vo. Pp. 376. [Brit. Musi] London, 1910 ABSENTEE ; or, a brief examination into the habits and condition of the people of Ireland. ... By an Officer of the Customs of Ireland . . . [-Symes]. 8vo. Pp. 42. London, 1820 ABSENT-MINDED (the) fairy. By Margaret Vandergrift [Margaret Thomson Janvier]. 8vo. [Kirk’s Supplement, ii., p. 900.] Philadelphia, 1880 ABSENT-MINDED (an) war: being some reflections on our reverses in South Africa, and the causes which have led to them. By a British officer[Captain William Elliot Cairnes]. Post 8vo. [Bond. Lib. Cat.] London, 1901 Wrongly ascribed to Capt. John Milne. ABSOLUTE and Abitofhell. [By Ronald A. Knox.] 8vo. London, 1915 See above, “ Absalom and Achitophel.” ABSOLUTE (the) impossibility of Transubstantiation demonstrated. [By Rev. Samuel Johnson.] 4to. Pp. xv., 54. [Jones’ Peck, ii., p. 367.] London, 1688 ABSOLUTE key to occult science. The Tarot of the Bohemians, the most ancient book in the world, for the exclusive use of Initiates. By Papus [Gerard Encausse]. Translated from the French by A. P. Morton. 8vo. Pp. xiv., 355. [Brit. Mus.] London, 1892 ABSOLUTION. By S. A. W. [Rev. Samuel Abraham Walker]. 8vo. London, 1874 Information by a friend.