A catalogue of the ... library ... of ... Richard Gough ... : Which will be sold ... on ... April 5, 1810 / [Richard Gough].

  • Richard Gough
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    I VI BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. Mr. Watts '^', with whom a treaty was formed ; and a subscription was set on foot, which succeeded beyond my warmest wishes.” In 1767, he was elected Fellow of the Society of- Antiquaries of London; and, by the partiality of the late worthy President, Dr. Milles, Dean of Exeter, was, on the death of- Dr. Gregory Sharpe, Master of the Temple, nominated Director of the same Society, 1771 ; which oliice he held till Dec. 12, 17P7, when he quitted the Society altogether. He was chosen Fellow of the Royal Society of Lon- don 177.5 ; but quitted that Society in 17P;)- [At tiie very early age of eleven, he at,cl}ieved a task that w'ould have reflected credit on any period of life ; which, by the indulgence of his Mother, ajrpeared in print, under the title of “ The History of the Bible,” translated from the French-^, by R. G. Junior, 174b. London, printed in the year 1747.” Of this curious Volume, consisting of l6*0 sheets in folio, no more than 25 copies were printed, as presents to a few par- ticular Friends J ; and, when completed at the press, it is marked, by way of colophon, “ Done at twelve years and a half old.” Another juvenile work was, “ Tlie Customs of the Israelites, translated from the French of the Abbot Fleury, by R. G. 1750,” 8vo.; not printed for sale.] His first regular publication was, without his name, ‘‘The History of Carausius; or an Examination of what has been advanced on that subject by Genebrier and Dr. Stukeley, 1702.” 4to. He opened a correspondence with Mr. Urban in 17^7? with an account of the village of Aldfriston in Sussex (vol. XXXVII. p. 443.) under the signature of D. H. wdiich signature he retained to the last, but not altoge- ther uniformly ; nor is another signature in some later * From a misimclcrstanding between the Draughtsman and the Engraver, Mr. Watts declined his engagement; and the Plate was soon after engraved by tlie late Mr. James Ba.sire, J Piinted at Amsterdam, in 2 vols. folio, \vitl\ ])lates, 1?00. I Mr. Nichols possesses a co])v with Mr. Gough’s corrections in maturer age.