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MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS, 1700-1798 -- The Causes of Scotland's Miseries. A Poem in imitation of the VI. Ode of Horace. Edinburgh: James Watson, 1700. 4° (191 x 154mm). (Soiled, outer margins tattered.) Disbound. 7 copies listed in ESTC. Wing C-1538.
The Ballad of The King shall enjoy his own again: with a learned comment thereupon, at the request of Capt. Silk, dedicated to Jenny Man. By the author of Tom Thumb. London: [s.n.], 1711. 8°. Disbound. ONLY EDITION of this anti-Whig satire. Not in Foxon. -- An Argument proving that the Design of Employing and Enobling Foreigners is a Treasonable Conspiracy. London: for the booksellers, 1717. 8°. Stitched, uncut. The less common of two issues, p. 7 line 2 ending 'Case.' Attributed to Defoe by Moore and others. Furbank and Owens state: 'it is safest to regard his authorship as unproven.' Kress 3013; Moore 359; cf. Goldsmiths' 5400 (third edition). -- [Henry FIELDING (1707-54)]. A Serious Address to the People of Great Britain. London: M. Cooper, 1745. 8°. Disbound and restitched, uncut. FIRST EDITION. Cross III, p. 130; Rothschild 846. -- William SMITH, volunteer. An Authentic Journal of the Expedition to Belleisle. Dublin: H. Saunders and J. Potts, 1761. 8°. Engraved frontispiece map. Disbound. ESTC appears to call for the map to be folding. Only 2 copies of this Dublin edition, and 7 copies of the London edition are recorded. -- Richard GRAFTON (d. ?1572). Vain Boastings of Frenchmen the same in 1386 as in 1798. London: J. Fridden [and others], 1798. 8°. (Lacks half-title.) Stapled. Extracted by Craven Ord from the Chronicles of Richard Grafton; and 30 other tracts, including a collection of 1640's declarations (12) in one box, and a second box of mostly 18th century tracts (10), nearly all disbound. (38)
The Ballad of The King shall enjoy his own again: with a learned comment thereupon, at the request of Capt. Silk, dedicated to Jenny Man. By the author of Tom Thumb. London: [s.n.], 1711. 8°. Disbound. ONLY EDITION of this anti-Whig satire. Not in Foxon. -- An Argument proving that the Design of Employing and Enobling Foreigners is a Treasonable Conspiracy. London: for the booksellers, 1717. 8°. Stitched, uncut. The less common of two issues, p. 7 line 2 ending 'Case.' Attributed to Defoe by Moore and others. Furbank and Owens state: 'it is safest to regard his authorship as unproven.' Kress 3013; Moore 359; cf. Goldsmiths' 5400 (third edition). -- [Henry FIELDING (1707-54)]. A Serious Address to the People of Great Britain. London: M. Cooper, 1745. 8°. Disbound and restitched, uncut. FIRST EDITION. Cross III, p. 130; Rothschild 846. -- William SMITH, volunteer. An Authentic Journal of the Expedition to Belleisle. Dublin: H. Saunders and J. Potts, 1761. 8°. Engraved frontispiece map. Disbound. ESTC appears to call for the map to be folding. Only 2 copies of this Dublin edition, and 7 copies of the London edition are recorded. -- Richard GRAFTON (d. ?1572). Vain Boastings of Frenchmen the same in 1386 as in 1798. London: J. Fridden [and others], 1798. 8°. (Lacks half-title.) Stapled. Extracted by Craven Ord from the Chronicles of Richard Grafton; and 30 other tracts, including a collection of 1640's declarations (12) in one box, and a second box of mostly 18th century tracts (10), nearly all disbound. (38)
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