[FAREWELL, -- ] Farrago, for the Author, by Lawton Gilliver, 1733, 8° (title lightly soiled) -- [BRUNT, Samuel.] A Philosophical Amusement upon the Language of Beasts and Birds, London, for T. Cooper, 1740, 8°, second edition (title lightly soiled) -- OCKLEY, Simon (1678-1720), translator. Sentences of Ali; Son-in-Law of Mahomet and His Fourth Successor, London, for Bernard Lintot, 1717, 8° -- [TINDAL, Matthew (1657-1733)] A Copy of the Will of Dr. Matthew Tindal, London, for T. Cooper, 1733, 4° -- [CURLL, Edmund (1675-1747)] Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mathew Tindall, London, for F. Curll, 1733, 4° -- [KING, William (1685-1763)] Elogium Famae Inserviens Jacci Etonensis, sive Gigantis; or, The Praises of Jack of Eton, commonly called Jack the Giant, Oxford, for S. Parker, by W. Owen, 1750, 4° (some contemporary satirical annotations, verso of N3 lightly soiled, lacking final blank [N4]), 6 works in one vol., contemprorary half calf, spine gilt (lightly rubbed); sold not subject to return.

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[FAREWELL, -- ] Farrago, for the Author, by Lawton Gilliver, 1733, 8° (title lightly soiled) -- [BRUNT, Samuel.] A Philosophical Amusement upon the Language of Beasts and Birds, London, for T. Cooper, 1740, 8°, second edition (title lightly soiled) -- OCKLEY, Simon (1678-1720), translator. Sentences of Ali; Son-in-Law of Mahomet and His Fourth Successor, London, for Bernard Lintot, 1717, 8° -- [TINDAL, Matthew (1657-1733)] A Copy of the Will of Dr. Matthew Tindal, London, for T. Cooper, 1733, 4° -- [CURLL, Edmund (1675-1747)] Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mathew Tindall, London, for F. Curll, 1733, 4° -- [KING, William (1685-1763)] Elogium Famae Inserviens Jacci Etonensis, sive Gigantis; or, The Praises of Jack of Eton, commonly called Jack the Giant, Oxford, for S. Parker, by W. Owen, 1750, 4° (some contemporary satirical annotations, verso of N3 lightly soiled, lacking final blank [N4]), 6 works in one vol., contemprorary half calf, spine gilt (lightly rubbed); sold not subject to return.

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Matthew Tindall (1655-1733) was a Catholic who reverted to Protestantism of a somewhat freethinking kind. At his death there was great controversy abuot his supposed will which was commented on by Boswell in his Hebrides as well as Pope.

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