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Tweddell's (John) Remains, being a selection of his letters; together with his Prolusiones Juveniles: to which is added, some account of the author's journals, MSS., collections of drawings, &c.; and prefixed is a biographical memoir by the editor, Robert Tweddell. 4to. London, 1815.

White's (H. K.) Remains; with an account of his life by Robt. Southey. 3 vols. 8vo. London, 1808-22.

Witherspoon's (John) Works; with life. 9 vols. 12mo. Edinburgh,

1815.

Wotton's (Sir H.) Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, or a collection of lives, letters, and poems; with characters of sundry personages, [edited by Isaac Walton]. 8vo. 8vo. London, 1672.

Wrangham's (Fr.) Works: sermons, dissertations, and translations. 3 vols. 8vo. London, 1816.

Wyatt's (Sir Tho.) Works. (Surrey.)

Young's (Edward) Works. 5 vols. 12mo. London, 1767.

Zouch's (Thos.) Works; with memoir of his life by F. Wrangham. 2 vols. 8vo. York, 1820.

Fables.

Pilpay's Fables. 12mo. London, 1818.

Hitopodesa of Vishnusarum, or amicable instruction; [the fables of Pilpay], translated by Sir W. Jones. (Works, Vol. VÌ.)

Æsopi Fabulæ. (Classics.)

Æsop's Fables; with his life in English, French, and Latin; the English by Th. Philipot, the French and Latin by R. Codrington: with 112 sculptures by Francis Barlow. Folio. London, 1665.

Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists; with life of Esop, and an essay on fable, by R. Dodsley. Small 8vo. Birmingham, Baskerville, 1764.

The Dialogues of Creatures moralysed, applyably and edificatably to every mery and jocunde mater; of late translated out of Latyn into our Englyshe tonge, right profitable to the governaunce of man. Reprinted in black letter; edited by Joseph Haslewood. 4to. Lond.

1816. Dryden's (John) Fables.

Fontaine (Fables de la).

(Works.)

(Euvres, Vols. I. and II.)

Fontaine, Etudes sur la ; ou, notes et excursions littéraires sur ses Fables [par Solvet], précédées de son éloge inédit, par Gaillard. 8vo. Paris, 1812.

Gay's (John) Fables. 2 vols. 8vo. London, Stockdale, 1797.
Select Fables, with cuts; designed and engraved by Thomas and John
Bewick and others, previous to 1784: together with a memoir, and a
descriptive catalogue of the works of Messrs. Bewick. Royal 8vo.
Newcastle, 1820.

Satirical Works.

Dryden's (John) Essay on Satire. (Works, Vols. XIII. and XV.)

Petronii Arbitri Satyricon. (Classics.)

[Arbuthnot (Dr.)], Law is a Bottomless Pit; or, the history of John Bull. [A satire on the war under Marlborough.] (Swift's Works, Vol. VI.)

Barclaii (Jo.) Satyricon, accessit conspiratio Anglicana. 24mo. Elz. Lugd. Bat. 1637.

Erasme, Eloge de la Folie, trad. par M. Guedeville; avec les notes de G. Lister. 12mo. Amsterdam, 1745.

Besides the illustrations from Holbein, this edition has the very spirited woodcuts of Le Sueur the younger worked with the letter-press.

[Evelyn (John)], Mundus Muliebris; or, the ladye's dressing-room unlocked, and her toillette spread, in burlesque: together with the FopDictionary, compiled for the use of the fair sex. (Misc. Works.) [Matthias's (T. J.)] Pursuits of Literature, a satirical poem; with explanatory notes, &c. 8vo. London, 1806.

Pope's (Alex.) Dunciad; with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, the Hypercritics of Aristarchus, and Notes variorum. (Works, Vol. V.) Swift's (Jonathan) True Account of the Battle fought between the ancient and the modern Books in St. James's Library. (Works, Vol. X.) For other satirical writings, see Poetry and Novels.

Proverbs, Apothegms, Ana, &c.

Plutarchus et Diogenes Laertius. (Classics.)

Sentences of Ali, the Son-in-law of Mahomet, translated from the Arabic. (Ockley's History of the Saracens, Vol. II.)

Bacon's (Lord) Collection of Apothegmes, new and old. 18mo. Lond. 1626. (Works, Vol. I.)

Burckhardt's (J. L.) Arabic Proverbs; or, the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians: illustrated from their proverbial sayings current at Cairo, translated and explained. 4to. London, 1830. Erasme (les Apothegmes d'), cest à dire, promptz, sublitz, et sententieulx, ditz de plusieurs royz, chefz darméz, philosophes, et autres, tant Grecz que Latins, translatez de Latin par Ant. Macault. Small 8vo. Paris, 1539.

Kett's (Henry) Flowers of Wit; or, a collection of bon mots, both ancient and modern with biographical and critical remarks. 2 vols. 12mo. London, 1814.

Leigh's (E.) Choice French Proverbs. (Observ. on Rom. Emp.) Nunez (C. H.), Refranes o Proverbios en Romance y Glossò; y la filosofia vulgar de Juan de Mal-lara, I. Parte, que contient mil refranes glossados. 4to. Madrid, 1619.

Oudin (Cesar), Refranes o Proverbios Castellanos. Small 8vo. Paris, 1609.

[Pancoucke (J.)], Dictionnaire Portatif des Proverbes François; avec une explication des étymologies les plus avénées. 8vo. Amst. 1751. [Pancoucke], Encyclopediana; ou, dictionnaire encylopédique des anas. 4to. Paris, 1791.

Peele's (Geo.) Merrie conceited Jests; wherein is shewed the course of his life, how he lived. London [1607].

4to.

Ray's (J.) Collection of Proverbs. 8vo. London, 1738.

Rochefoucauld (Duc de la), Maximes et Réflexions morales; [avec une notice sur le caractère et les écrites de l'auteur, par M. Suard.] 8vo. Paris, de l'Imp. Royale, 1788.

Selden's (John) Table Talk. (Works, Vol. III.)

[Southey's (Robert)] Omniana; or, Hora Otiosiores. 2 vols. 18mo. London, 1812.

[Jenkinson's (Robert)?] Wit's Theatre of the Little World. Small 8vo. London, by J. R. 1599.

Politeuphuia; Wit's Commonwealth, newly corrected and amended. Small 8vo.

London,

Wit's Commonwealth, the II. Part, a treasurie of divine, morall, and philosophicall similes and sentences, generally useful, by Francis Meres. Small 8vo. London, 1634.

Emblems.

Alciati (Andr.) Emblematum Libellus. Small 8vo.

Parisiis, ex offic. C. Wecheli, 1535.

Beza (Theo.) Emblemata. (Icones.)

Editio princeps.

Latour (Charlotte de), le Langage des Fleurs. 18mo. Paris, ———. Peacham's (Henry) Minerva Britannia; or, a garden of heroical devises, furnished and adorned with emblemes and impreses of sundry natures. 4to. Lond. 1612.

Phillips' (Henry) Floral Emblems. 8vo. London, 1825.

Whitney's (Geffrey) Choice of Emblemes and other Devices, Englished and moralized, and divers newly devised. Dedicated to the Earl of Leicester. Both parts, 4to. cuts. Imprinted at Leyden, by F. Raphelingus, 1586.

Epistolary Writings.

See also English Documentary History.

Ciceronis, Phalaridis, Plinii, et Seneca Epistolæ. (Classics.)

Hayley's (W.) Desultory Remarks on the Letters of eminent Persons. (Life of Cowper, Vol. III.)

Letters by eminent Persons in the 17th and 18th centuries, from the originals in the Bodleian and Ashmolean libraries; with biographical and literary illustrations [by P. Bliss]. 3 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1813. Ascham's (Roger) Letters, from the originals, formerly in the custody of Mr. Strype. (Works.)

Atterbury's (Bp. Fr.) Epistolary Correspondence. (Polygraphy.) Atterbury's Private Correspondence with his Friends, in 1725. (Hailes' Scottish Tracts.)

Basire, (the Correspondence of Isaac), Archdeacon of Northumberland, in the Reigns of Charles I. and II.; with a memoir of his life by W. N. Darnell. 8vo. London, 1831.

Bentleii (Ric.) et doctorum Virorum Epistolæ, partim mutuæ accedit R. Dawesii ad J. Taylorem epistola singularis [edidit C. Burney]. 4to. London [privately printed], 1807.

Boyle (Letters from several Persons to the Hon. Robert). (Works, Vol. VI.)

Boileau, Lettres. (Euvres, Vol. IV.)

Burns (Letters to and from Robert). (Works, Vol. II.)

Carter (Mrs. Eliz.), a Series of Letters between her and Miss Talbot, 1741-1770; also her letters to Mrs. Vesey, 1763-1787: edited by Montgomery Pennington. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1808. Chesterfield's (Lord) Letters to his Friends.

(Misc. Works, Vol. II.)

Cowper's (William) Private Correspondence with several of his most intimate friends; now first published from the originals, in the possession of his kinsman John Johnson. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1824.

Deffand's (Marquise du) Letters to Horace Walpole, from 1766 to 1780; to which are added, her letters to Voltaire, 1759 to 1775, 4 vols. 12mo. Lond. 1810.

Dryden's (John) Letters. (Works, Vol. XVIII.)

Dugdale (Letters between Sir W.) and Sir T. Browne. (Browne's Posthumous Works.)

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Fontaine (La), Lettres. (Euvres, Vol. VI.)

Franklin's (Benjamin) Private Correspondence, edited by W. Temple Franklin. (Works, Vols. III. and IV.)

Ganganelli's (Pope Clement XIV.) Letters; to which are prefixed, anecdotes of his life. 4 vols. 12mo. London, 1777.

Garrick's (David) Private Correspondence with the most celebrated Persons of his time; illustrated with notes and a new biographical memoir of Garrick. 2 vols. imp. 4to. London, 1831.

Gibbon (Letters to and from Edward). (Misc. Works, Vols. I. and II.) [Grant's (Mrs.)] Letters from the Mountains, being the real correspondence of a Lady, between 1773 and 1807. 3 vols. 12mo. London, 1807.

Gray (Letters to and from Thos.) (Works, 8vo. Vol. II.)

Grey's (Lady Jane) Letters. (Remains.)

Hartford (Correspondence between Frances, Countess of) and Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret, 1738 to 41. 3 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1806. Johnson (Letters to and from Dr. Sam.); with some poems, edited by H. L. Piozzi. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1788.

Johnson's (Sam.) Selected Letters. (Works, Vol. XII.)

Locke's (John) Familiar Letters

(Works, Vols. IX. and X.)

between him and several of his Friends.

Maintenon (Lettres de Mde. de.) (Mémoires, Vols. VII. to XV.)

Maintenon (Lettres inédités de Mde. de) et Mde. la Princesse d'Ursins. 4 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1826.

Miltoni (Jo.) Epistolæ Familiares. (Prose Works, 4to. Vol. II.; 8vo. Vol. VI.)

Montagu's (Lady Mary Wortley) Letters. (Works, Vols. I. to V.) Montagu's (Eliz.) Letters, with some of those of her Correspondents, edited by Matth. Montagu. 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1809.

Nicolson (Letters, on various subjects, to and from Abp. W.); including the correspondence of several eminent prelates, from 1683 to 1726-7 inclusive; illustrated with literary and historical anecdotes by John Nichols. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1809.

Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk. (Sir W. Scott's Misc. Works.)
Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk. (Biographical Anecdotes.)

Pinkerton's (John) Literary Correspondence, edited from the originals, by Dawson Turner. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1830.

Pope's (Alex.) Literary Correspondence, 1704 to 43. (Works, Vols. VII. to X.)

Racine (Jean), Lettres à ses Amis. (Euvres, Vol. V.)

Ralegh's (Sir W.) Letters. (Works, Vol. VIII.)

Russell's (Lady R.) Letters; to which is added, the trial of Lord William Russell. 8vo. London, 1792.

Seldeni (Jo.) Epistolæ Variæ. (Opera, Vol. II.)

Sevigné (Recueil des Lettres de Mad. de), augmentée d'un précis de la vie de cette femme célèbre, et des réflexions sur ses lettres, par S. J. B. de Vauxcelles [et des nouvelles lettres]. 10 vols. 12mo. Paris,

1801.

Edin. 1811.

Seward's (Anna) Letters, from 1784 to 1807. 6 vols. 12mo. Smith's (Sir J. E.) Correspondence of Linnæus, &c. (Nat. History.) Steele's (Sir Rich.) Epistolary Correspondence, including his familiar letters to his wife and daughters, and fragments of his plays; edited by J. Nichols. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1809.

Sterne's (Laur.) Letters. (Works, Vols. IX. and X.)

Suckling's (Sir John) Letters to eminent Persons. (Works.)

Surrey's (Earl of) Letters. (Works.)

Swift's (Jonathan) Journal to Stella, in Letters. (Works, Vols. II. and III.)

Swift's (Jon.) Epistolary Correspondence, 1691 to 1741. (Works, Vols. XV. to XIX.)

Talbot's (Mrs.) Letters. (Works.)

Tweddel's (John) Letters. (Remains.)

Wakefield's (Gilbert) Correspondence with the late C. J. Fox, in 17961801, chiefly on subjects of classical literature. 8vo. Lond. 1813. Walpole's (Horatio) Letters to Richard West, 1735-42. (Orford's Works, Vol. IV.)

Walpole's (H.) Letters to the Hon. H. S. Conway, Ri. Bentley, Tho. Gray, John Chute, Earl of Strafford, Lady Mary Lepell Hervey, Caroline Campbell, Countess Dowager of Ailesbury, and to Mrs. H. Moore. (Orford's Works, Vol. V.)

Walpole's (H.) Letters to George Montagu, Esq., from 1736 to 1770; now first published from the originals. 4to. London, 1818. (Orford's Works, Vol. VI.)

Warton's (Dr. J.) Letters of eminent Persons. (Life.)

White's (Kirke) Letters. (Works.)

Wyat's (Sir Thos.) Letters to his Son. (Surrey and Wyat's Works.)

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