Texts Godwin Read: Annotated Titles 1788-1836

First Mention	Reference	Author	Title	Date	Notes
10 October 1788	Read the Widow & the Will	Dibdin, Thomas John	The widow and the will	1826	, published as Four legs and two legs. Also printe…
4 November 1788	Second act of Robinson's farce	Robinson, ----	The test of love.	1787
10 March 1789	read Lettre au Roi par M. de Calonne	Calonne, Charles Alexandre de	Lettre adressée au roi par M. de Calonne le 9 février 1789.	1789
5 March 1790	Read for A. R.		New annual register	1784	A. R. is possibly an early abbreviation for George…
13 April 1790	Enchiridion	Epictetus	The encheiridion, or manual.	1503/04	c. 89 or 92 A.D.OR Erasmus, Desiderius Enchiridion…
31 December 1790	Simple Story	Inchbald, Elizabeth	A simple story.	1791
6 September 1790	Read Plato by Spens, 2 dialogues	Plato	The republic of Plato. In ten books, translated from the Greek by H. Spens, D.D. With …	1763	Spens, H. (translator)
8 September 1791	Read Rousseau on Poland	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Considérations sur le gouvernement de la Pologne et sur sa reformation projetée.	1782	WG's sale catalog lists: Rousseau (J. J.) ses Oeuv…
11 September 1791	Contrât social, liv. I.	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Du contrat social, ou principes du droit politique par J. J. Rousseau, citoyen de Genè…	1762	WG's sale catalog lists: Rousseau (J. J.) ses Oeuv…
11 September 1791	Hume Original Contract	Hume, David	Three essays, moral and political: never before published. Which completes the former …	1748	‘Of the original contract' in WG's sale catalog li…
12 September 1791	Part of Hume on Morals	Hume, David	An enquiry concerning the principles of morals.	1751	WG's sale catalog lists: Hume's (David) Essays and…
12 September 1791	of Paley's Philosophy	Paley, William	The principles of moral and political philosophy.	1785	WG's sale catalog lists:Paley's (Archd.) Principle…
12 September 1791	of Mackintosh	Mackintosh, James	Vindiciae Gallicae. Defence of the French Revolution and its English admirers against …	1791	WG's sale catalog lists:Mackintosh's (Sir J.) Defe…
12 September 1791	Taxation no Tyranny	Johnson, Samuel	Taxation no tyranny; an answer to the resolutions and address of the American Congress…	1775
13 September 1791	De l'Homme	Helvétius, Claude-Adrien	De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelle et de son education. Ouvrage posthume de M.…	1773	Listed in WG's sale catalog:Helvetius, de l'Homme,…
13 September 1791	Dix Mille	Xenophon	La retraite des dix mille de Xenophon, ou l'expédition de Cyrus contre Artaxerxes, ave…	1706	Ablancourt, Nicolas Perrot, sieur d' (translator) …
14 September 1791	Inegalité parmi les Hommes	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inegalité parmi les hommes, par Jean Jac…	1755	WG's sale catalog lists: Rousseau (J. J.) ses Oeuv…
15 September 1791	Rollin on Sparta	Rollin, Charles	Histoire ancienne des Egyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des…	1730-38	13 volumes. Translated as: Rollin, Charles The anc…
16 September 1791	Hume on Polygamy & Climate	Hume, David	Essays, moral and political	1742	(originally anonymous) ‘Of polygamy and divorces' …
16 September 1791	Mitford on Sparta	Mitford, William	The History of Greece	1784	. Volume I. WG's sale catalog lists:Mitford's (W.)…
16 September 1791	Priestley versus Reid	Priestley, Joseph	An examination of Dr. Reid's Inquiry into the human mind on the principles of common s…	1774
18 September 1791	Read the Traveller	Goldsmith, Oliver	The traveller, or a prospect of society: a poem inscribed to the Rev. Mr. Henry Goldsm…	1764	If WG read this poem in a collection of Goldsmith,…
19 September 1791	Deserted Village	Goldsmith, Oliver	The deserted village.	1770	If WG read this poem in a collection of Goldsmith,…
19 September 1791	& Retaliation	Goldsmith, Oliver	Retaliation: a poem by doctor Goldsmith. Including epitaphs on the most distinguished …	1774	If WG read this poem in a collection of Goldsmith,…
20 September 1791	Raynal on South America	Raynal, Guillaume Thomas, abbé de	Histoire philosophique et politiques des éstablissemens & du commerce des européens da…	1770	WG's sale catalog lists: Raynal's (Abbe') Histoire…
21 September 1791	Burke on Paraguay	Burke, Edmund	An account of the European settlements in America. In six parts. I. A short history of…	1757	WG's sale catalog lists:Burke's (Edm.) Account of …
22 September 1791	M. R. of Condillac				Unable to identify.
26 September 1791	M. R. of Falconer on Climate				Unable to identify.
27 September 1791	Hume's Essays	Hume, David	Essays, moral and political	1742	(originally anonymous) ‘Of eloquence' in . Volume …
29 September 1791	Hume's Essays	Hume, David	Political discourses.	1752	Possibly one or more of the following: ‘Of commerc…
6 October 1791	Systême Social	Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry, baron d'	Systême social, ou principes naturels de la morale et de la politique. Avec un examen …	1773	. Tome premier.
7 October 1791	Frederic	Frederick II, King of Prussia	Posthumous works of Frederic II. King of Prussia. . . . Trans. Thomas Holcroft from ‘O…	1789	Holcroft, Thomas (translator) Conjecture based on …
13 October 1791	Hist. de mon Tems	Frederick II, King of Prussia	Histoire de mon temps.	1788	Translated as: Frederick II, King of Prussia Holcr…
16 October 1791	Holcroft's Novel	Holcroft, Thomas	Anna St. Ives.	1792	WG is reading Holcroft's manuscript.WG's sale cata…
22 October 1791	Condorcet's Life of Voltaire, en partie	Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de	The life of Voltaire, by the Marquis de Condorcet. To which are added memoirs of Volta…	1790	Translated from: Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas d…
24 October 1791	Dom Chaudon	Chaudon, Louis Mayeul, Dom	Mémoires pour servir á l'histoire de M. de Voltaire. Historical and critical memoirs o…	1786
24 October 1791	Commentaire Histore	Wagniere, Jean-Louis (attributed to)	Commentaire historique sur les ouvres de l'auteur de La Henriade: avec les pièces orig…	1776	Durey de Morsan, Joseph-Marie (attributed to) Chri…
26 October 1791	Villette's Life of Voltaire	Duvernet, Théophile Imarigeon, abbé	La vie de Voltaire, par M***.	1786	See PPW 3: 133: WG's note ‘Vie de Voltaire, par M*…
27 October 1791	Le Mondain	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Le mondain.	1736	?WG's sale catalog lists:Voltaire, Theatre, Henria…
27 October 1791	Appeal to the Old Whigs	Burke, Edmund	An appeal from the new to the old whigs, in consequence of some late discussions in Pa…	1791
28 October 1791	Tucker	Tucker, Josiah	A letter to Edmund Burke, Esq.: member of Parliament for the city of Bristol, and agen…	1775
31 October 1791	Poesies de Voltaire	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Contes et poésies diverses de M. de Voltaire.	1777
1 November 1791	Locke	Locke, John	Two treatises of government: In the former, the false principles and foundation of Sir…	1690
2 November 1791	Burke's Speech 1774.	Burke, Edmund	Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on American taxation, April 19, 1774.	1774
7 November 1791	Pucelle	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	La pucelle d'Orléans, poème héroï-comique.	1755
8 November 1791	Burke's Speech 1775	Burke, Edmund	The speech of Edmund Burke, Esq.; on moving his resolutions for conciliation with the …	1775
9 November 1791	Sillery, Leçons	Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de	Leçons d'une gouvernante a ses élèves, ou, Fragments d'un journal: qui a été fait pour…	1791
10 November 1791	Price on Morals	Price, Richard	A review of the principal questions and difficulties in morals; particularly those rel…	1758
10 November 1791	Preface to Marmontel	Marmontel, Jean-François	Contes moraux,par M. Marmontel; suivis d'une Apologie du théatre.	1761	Translated as: Marmontel, Jean-François Denis, C. …
11 November 1791	Common Sense	Paine, Thomas	Common sense, addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting su…	1776	(published anonymously) Philadelphia 1776 London: …
21 November 1791	Read the Widow	Genlis, Stephanie Félicité, comtesse de	Widow of Sarepta	1786	Holcroft, Thomas (translator) in Théâtre á l'usage…
21 November 1791	Temple du Gout	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Le temple du gout.	1733
24 November 1791	Pentateuch		Pentateuch. redaction of diverse sources in 4th century B.C.; edited by the Jewish Mas…	1597	Conjecture that WG reads the Pentateuch rather tha…
25 November 1791	Dictionnaire Philosophique	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Dictionnaire philosophique, portative.	1764
26 November 1791	Joshua		Joshua.	1597	Compiled and edited c. 609 B.C. and edited again i…
2 December 1791	Bossuet	Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne	Discours sur l'histoire universelle a Monseigneur le Dauphin pour expliquer la suite d…	1681	Translated as: Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne An univers…
2 December 1791	P. Pindar's Remonstrce	Pindar, Peter (John Wolcot)	The Remonstrance. To which is added, an Ode to my ass: also, The magpie and robin, a t…	1791
5 December 1791	Montesquieu	Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de	De l'esprit des loxi, ou Du rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution de…	1748
5 December 1791	Hume	Hume, David			Unable to identify title.
6 December 1791	Johnson's Origin of Evil	Johnson, Samuel	A free inquiry into the nature and origin of evil	1757	Review of Soame Jenyns's in The Literary Magazine,…
11 December 1791	Metronomanie, Act 1 {.}	Piron, Alexis	La métromanie, ou Le poëte, comédie en vers et en cinq actes.	1738
13 December 1791	Livy, speeches of Junius and Torquatus	Livy (Titus Livius)	Ab Urbe Condita	1708	; also called Annales. (From the Founding of the C…
13 December 1791	Speeches, Soho school				Unable to identify.
13 December 1791	Speech of Marius in Sallust	Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)	Bellum Iugurthinum. (The War with Jugurtha)		chapter lxxxv41 B.C.
15 December 1791	Courses de Tempé	Piron, Alexis	Les courses de Tempé.	1734
15 December 1791	Analyse de la Rep. de Platon				Unable to identify.
19 December 1791	Read Law on Perfection	Law, Edmund, bishop of Carlisle	Considerations of the world with regard to the theory of religion.	1745
21 December 1791	Read Cymon	Garrick, David	Cymon, a dramatic romance. As performed at the Theatres Royal Drury Lane and Covent Ga…	1767	Arne, Michael (music) The play was revived, perfor…
26 December 1791	Consult Price on Liberty	Price, Richard	Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the jus…	1776	OR Price, Richard Additional observations on the n…
3 January 1792	Read Rights of Man 18	Paine, Thomas	The rights of man, being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution.	1791	Probably Part 1, since WG later records moving on …
3 January 1792	Burke's Reflections, <Costive> 28 pages	Burke, Edmund	Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies i…	1790
7 January 1792	Read Anacharsis, 53 pages	Cloots, Anacharsis	La république universelle, ou, Adresse aux tyrannicides.	1783	This is probably the text WG is reading, since he …
11 January 1792	Parr's Dedication to Hurd	Parr, Samuel	Dedication of Two tracts of a Warburtonian, from Tracts: by Warburton and a Warburtoni…	1789
12 January 1792	Epistle to Hogarth	Churchill, Charles	An epistle to William Hogarth.	1763
13 January 1792	Churchil; Night,	Churchill, Charles	Night: an epistle to Robert Lloyd. By C. Churchill.	1760
13 January 1792	Conferences	Churchill, Charles	The conference: a poem.	1763
13 January 1792	Farewel	Churchill, Charles	The farewell:a poem. By C. Churchill.	1764
16 January 1792	Read Protesilas en Télémaq[ ]	Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-	Les avantures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse; ou, Suite du quatrième livre de l'Odyssée d…	1699
18 January 1792	Read the Rosciad	Churchill, Charles	The Rosciad.	1761
19 January 1792	the Candidate	Churchill, Charles	The candidate: a poem. By C. Churchill.	1764
21 January 1792	Isabella	Garrick, David	Isabella; or, The fatal marriage. A play. Altered from Southern. As it is now performi…	1757	Southerne, Thomas
24 January 1792	Read the Biter	Rowe, Nichola	The biter: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by Her Maje…	1705	s
26 January 1792	Read < > the Author,	Churchill, Charles	The author: a poem.	1763
26 January 1792	Independence,	Churchill, Charles	Independence: a poem. Addressed to the minority.	1764
26 January 1792	Apology	Churchill, Charles	Apology, addressed to the critical reviewers. By C. Churchill.	1761
26 January 1792	& Jane Shore	Rowe, Nicholas	The tragedy of Jane Shore.	1714
26 January 1792	Begin Oedipus Tyrannus	Sophocles	Oedipus Tyrannus. (Oedipus the King)		conjectured 430s or 420s B.C.
27 January 1792	Read Gotham, B. I.	Churchill, Charles	Gotham: a poem.	1764	(Books 1-3)
27 January 1792	Begin Tasso, Canto 6	Tasso, Torquato	Gerusalemme liberata. (Jerusalem Delivered)	1581	WG's sale catalog lists the following:Tasso's Jeru…
3 February 1792	Read Mirabeau, 60 pages	Mirabeau, Gabriel-Honoré de Riquetti, comte de	Lettres originales de Mirabeau, écrites du donjon de Vincennes, pendant les années 177…	1792	4 volumes. OR Mirabeau, Gabriel-Honoré de Riquetti…
7 February 1792	Prophecy of Famine	Churchill, Charles	The prophecy of famine: a Scots pastoral.	1763
16 February 1792	Paine, Pt II, 88 pages	Paine, Thomas	Rights of man. Part the second. Combining principle and practice. By Thomas Paine	1792	… WG's sale catalog lists:Paine's (Tho.) Political…
17 February 1792	Porson, 180 pages …	Porson, Richard	Letters to Travis, in answer to his defence of the three heavenly witnesses, I John V.…	1790	Of Porson's various works, this one seems the only…
20 February 1792	Road to Ruin	Holcroft, Thomas	Road to ruin.	1792
20 February 1792	Read the West Indian	Cumberland, Richard	The West Indian: a comedy. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.	1771
28 February 1792	Coriolanus, 3 acts	Shakespeare, William	The tragedy of Coriolanus.	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
1 March 1792	Barlow's advice, 47 pages	Barlow, Joel	Advice to the privileged orders, in the several states of Europe, resulting from the n…	1792	Part 1.
6 March 1792	begin Philoctetes	Sophocles	Philoctetes		first produced in 409 B.C.
7 March 1792	Hume on National Characters	Hume, David	Three essays, moral and political: never before published. Which completes the former …	1748	‘Essay on national characters' in WG's sale catalo…
7 March 1792	Burke on Ireland, 57 pages	Burke, William	A letter from the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, M.P., to Sir Hercules Langrishe, Bart., M.P…	1792
7 March 1792	Hume on self love	Hume, David	An enquiry concerning the principles of morals	1751	part 1 of section ii. WG's sale catalog lists: Hum…
8 March 1792	read the Baviad	Gifford, William	The Baviad: a paraphrastic imitation of the first satire of Persius.	1791
9 March 1792	Read the Duellist	Churchill, Charles	The duelist: a poem in three books.	1764
9 March 1792	Richard II, 2 acts	Shakespeare, William	The tragedy of King Richard the Second.	1597	QuartoWG's sale catalog lists several editions of …
9 March 1792	Story of Mrs Wolstencraft	Wollstonecraft, Mary	Original stories from real life: with conversations, calculated to regulate the affect…	1788	OR Wollstonecraft, Mary Mary, a fiction. 1788 WG's…
11 March 1792	Read Wakefield	Wakefield, Gilbert	Memoirs of the life of Gilbert Wakefield, B.A., late fellow of JesusCollege, Cambridge…	1792	Conjecture based on WG's later reading of Wakefiel…
13 March 1792	Rights of Kings, 12 pages	Cuninghame, William, of Enterkine	The rights of kings.	1791	OR Pindar, Peter (John Wolcot) The rights of kings…
14 March 1792	Discontents, 40 pages	Burke, Edmund	Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents.	1770
16 March 1792	Bentham, introd. & 19 pages	Bentham, Jeremy	A fragment on government; being an examination of what is delivered, on the subject of…	1776	OR Bentham, Jeremy An introduction to the principl…
17 March 1792	Epistle to Lonsdale	Pindar, Peter (John Wolcot)	A commiserating epistle to James Lowther, Earl of Londsdale and Lowther, Lord Lieut. a…	1791
20 March 1792	Henry IV, 1 act	Shakespeare, William	The history of Henry the Fourth.	1598	First QuartoWG's sale catalog lists several editio…
22 March 1792	Conspiracy of Kings	Barlow, Joel	The conspiracy of kings: a poem: addressed to the inhabitants of Europe, from another …	1792
24 March 1792	Read Poetry Professors,	Churchill, Charles	Poetry professors	1779	in The poetical works: in three volumes: with the …
24 March 1792	Dedication,				Possibly the dedication to the edition of Charles …
24 March 1792	Journey,	Churchill, Charles	The journey: a fragment. By C. Churchill.	1765
24 March 1792	Observer, 4 papers	Cumberland, Richard	The observer, being a collection of moral, literary and familiar essays	1786	. Editions were published in , 1787-81, 1788-90, 1…
25 March 1792	Mercier's Road to Ruin	Holcroft, Thomas	The road to ruin.	1792	Louis-Sebastien Mercier is a well-known French pla…
27 March 1792	Priestley on Birm. Riot	Priestley, Joseph	An appeal to the public, on the subject of the riots in Birmingham: to which are added…	1791
2 April 1792	Read Rogers's Sermons	Rogers, John	Twelve sermons preached upon several occasions: By John Rogers	1730	… OR Rogers, John Nineteen sermons on several occa…
3 April 1792	Sceptic, 3 cantos	Holcroft, Thomas	Human happiness, or, The sceptic: a poem, in six cantos.	1783	?
5 April 1792	Begin Antigone	Sophocles	Antigone.		between 450 and 440 B.C.
5 April 1792	Read Henry IV, P. II, 1 act	Shakespeare, William	The second part of Henry the Fourth.	1600	QuartoWG's sale catalog lists several editions of …
5 April 1792	Collins's Remarks	Collins, Anthony	A letter to the learned Mr. Henry Dodwell; containing some remarks on a (pretended) de…	1707	OR Collins, Anthony A dissertation on liberty and …
5 April 1792	Begin the Andrian	Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)	Andria. (The Woman of Andros)		166-160 B.C.
6 April 1792	Read Clarke's 1st Defence	Clarke, Samuel	A defence of an argument made use of in a letter to Mr Dodwel, to prove the immaterial…	1707
9 April 1792	Conscious Lovers, 2 acts	Steele, Richard	The conscious lovers.	1722	(dated 1723)
11 April 1792	Ranger, act. 1	Silvester, ----	Ranger in wedlock; or, The amiable mistake.	1788	date of first production (Little Haymarket) Ranger…
14 April 1792	Edwards, 6 pages	Edwards, Jonathan	An essay on the nature of true virtue.	1778
17 April 1792	App. to Price on Morals	Price, Richard	A review of the principal questions in morals. Particularly those respecting the origi…	1787
17 April 1792	Twelfth Night;	Shakespeare, William	Twelfth night, or What you will.	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
17 April 1792	Antony, act 1	Shakespeare, William	The tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra.	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
18 April 1792	Collins's Reply	Collins, Anthony	A reply to Mr. Clark's Defence of his letter to Mr. Dodwell. With a postscript relatin…	1707
18 April 1792	Clarke's 2nd Defence	Clarke, Samuel	A second defense of an argument made use of in a letter to Mr Dodwel, to prove the imm…	1707
18 April 1792	Use of Reason	Watts, Isaac	Logick: or, the right use of reason in the enquiry after truth. With a variety of rule…	1725	OR Collins, Anthony Essay concerning the use of re…
19 April 1792	Eunuch, act. 1	Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)	Eunuchus. (The Eunuch)		160-166 B.C.
19 April 1792	Henry V, act 1	Shakespeare, William	The life of Henry the Fifth.	1600	QuartoWG's sale catalog lists several editions of …
20 April 1792	Collins's Reflections, 24 pages	Collins, Anthony	Reflections on Mr. Clark's Second defence of his letter to Mr. Dodwell…	1707
24 April 1792	Tempest	Shakespeare, William	The tempest.	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
25 April 1792	Read Friendship in Fashion, 3 acts	Otway, Thomas	Friendship in fashion, as it is acted at his royal highness the Duke's Theatre.	1678
26 April 1792	Secret Hist. of Cha. II, 30 pages	Author unknown	Secret history of the last four monarchs of Great Britain, Part 2: The secret history …	1690
30 April 1792	Burnet's Own Times, 200 pages	Burnet, Gilbert	Bishop Burnet's history of his own time. v. 1 From the restoration of King Charles II,…	1724-1734	Burnet, Sir Thomas (editor) (2 volumes)
1 May 1792	Ludlow, 10 pages	Ludlow, Edmund	Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Esq.	1698
2 May 1792	Hume, 40 pages	Hume, David	Philosophical essays concerning human understanding. By the author of the Essays moral…	1748	AND/OR Hume, David An enquiry concerning the princ…
4 May 1792	Fugitive, 2 acts	Shapter, Thomas	The fugitive; or, Happy recess, a dramatic pastoral, in two acts.	1790
5 May 1792	Venice Preserved, 3 acts	Otway, Thomas	Venice preserv'd; or, a plot discovered. As it is acted at the Duke's Theatre.	1681	or 1682
6 May 1792	Read Geddes on slavery	Geddes, Alexander	An apology for slavery; or, Six cogent arguments against the immediate abolition of th…	1792
7 May 1792	Barlow, 58	Barlow, Joel	Advice to the privileged orders, in the several states of Europe, resulting from the n…	1792	Part 1. OR Barlow, Joel The conspiracy of kings: a…
8 May 1792	Gulliver, 7 pages	Swift, Jonathan	Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver…	1726
10 May 1792	Burke on Natural Society	Burke, Edmund	A vindication of natural society; or, A view of the miseries and evils arising to mank…	1756	WG's sale catalog lists the following:Burke's Vind…
12 May 1792	Paley, 53 pages	Paley, William	The principles of moral and political philosophy.	1785	Conjecture based on WG's reading of this text in 1…
14 May 1792	Discours sur l'Homme, 2 parties	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Les discours sur l'homme	1768	in La Henriade, en dix chants, précédée, accompagn…
16 May 1792	Wakefield's Memoirs, 170 pages	Wakefield, Gilbert	Memoirs of the life of Gilbert Wakefield, B.A., late fellow of JesusCollege, Cambridge…	1792
18 May 1792	Loi Naturelle, 2 parties	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Poëmes sur le désastre de Lisbonne et sur la loi naturelle avec des préfaces, des note…	1756
18 May 1792	Parr's Sequel, 168 pages	Parr, Samuel	A sequel to the printed paper lately circulated in Warwickshire by the Rev. Charles Cu…	1792
18 May 1792	Paine's Letter to the Const. Society				Unable to identify separate publication.WG's sale …
20 May 1792	read Poeme sur Lisbonne	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Poëmes sur le désastre de Lisbonne et sur la loi naturelle avec des préfaces, des note…	1756
22 May 1792	Orphan, acts 1 & 2	Otway, Thomas	The orphan; or, the unhappy marriage.	1680
23 May 1792	Steel on Punctuation	Steel, David	Elements of punctuation; containing remarks on an Essay on punctuation; and critical o…	1786
26 May 1792	Fair Penitent, act 1	Rowe, Nicholas	The fair penitent.	1703
30 May 1792	Douglas, 1 act	Home, John	Douglas, a tragedy. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Covent Garden. P…	1756
8 June 1792	Lettres sur les Animaux, 168 pages	Leroy, Charles Georges	Lettres sur les animaux.	1768
8 June 1792	History of a Creole, 116 pages	Author unknown (by a Creole)	The fortunate transport; or, the secret history of the life and adventures of the cele…	1748	(part 1); 1750 (part 2/complete work)
10 June 1792	Read Parr's Irenopolis	Parr, Samuel	A letter from Irenopolis to the inhabitants of Eleutheropolis; or, A serious address t…	1792
10 June 1792	Paine's Letter to Dundas	Paine, Thomas	Letter to the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Dundas, from Thomas Paine, author of The …	1792	OR Paine, Thomas A letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas,…
12 June 1792	Read the Political Dialogue	Pasquinell, ----, Signor [pseudonym]	Crowns and sceptres, useless baubles: a political dialogue; ça ira, ça ira.	1792	OR Author unknown An impartial and political dialo…
13 June 1792	Wolstencraft, 169 pages	Wollstonecraft, Mary	Vindication of the rights of woman.	1792	Conjecture based on WG's other reading during this…
15 June 1792	Read Wyvil, 42 pages	Wyvill, Christopher	A defence of Dr. Price and the reformers of England.	1792
16 June 1792	Eloise, Vol. 4, 56 pages; Vol. 5, 74 pages	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Julie: ou, la nouvelle Héloïse	1761	original edition titled Lettres de deux amans, hab…
21 June 1792	Read Price, 21 pages			1783	Insufficient information to identify the specific …
21 June 1792	Country Girl	Garrick, David	The country girl: a comedy, (altered from Wycherley) as it is acted at the Theatre Roy…	1766
22 June 1792	Read the Agreeable Surprise	O'Keeffe, John	The agreeable surprise.	1781
23 June 1792	Read Collins on Human Liberty	Collins, Anthony	A philosophical inquiry concerning human liberty and necessity.	1717
23 June 1792	Priestley	Priestley, Joseph	A philosophical inquiry concerning human liberty. By Anthony Collins, Esq. Republished…	1790	Conjecture based on Godwin's other reading at this…
28 June 1792	Read Hume on causation, &c., 22 pages	Hume, David	Philosophical essays concerning human understanding. By the author of the Essays moral…	1748	Although there is no section explicitly titled ‘ca…
29 June 1792	Read Watson on Time, 80 pages	Watson, William	A treatise on time.	1785
30 June 1792	Burke on Oeconomy, 14 pages	Burke, Edmund	Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., member of Parliament for the city of Bristol, on present…	1780
5 July 1792	Barrow's Ma. Lectures, 22 pages on space	Barrow, Isaac	The usefulness of mathematical learning explained and demonstrated: being mathematical…	1734
8 July 1792	Burke's Speech at Bristol, 12 pages	Burke, Edmund	A speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. at the Guildhall, in Bristol, previous to the late elec…	1780
9 July 1792	Junius, 270 pages	Francis, Philip, sir (attributed to)	The letters of Junius.	1770-74	WG's sale catalog lists: Junius' Letters, with cop…
11 July 1792	Burke on the Sublime, 26 pages	Burke, Edmund	A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.	1757
15 July 1792	Hume's Dialogues, 35 pages	Hume, David	Dialogues concerning natural religion. By David Hume, Esq.	1779	WG's sale catalog lists: Hume's (David) Essays and…
22 July 1792	Hume's Hist. of Religion, 10 pages	Hume, David	Four dissertations, part I.	1757	‘The natural history of religion' in Included in t…
23 July 1792	Love's Labour Lost, 4 acts	Shakespeare, William	Love's labour lost.	1598	QuartoWG's sale catalog lists several editions of …
23 July 1792	Spence's Magliabechi	Spence, Joseph	A parallel; in the manner of Plutarch: between a most celebrated man of Florence; and …	1758
25 July 1792	Measure for Measure, acts 1 & 2	Shakespeare, William	Measure for measure.	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
26 July 1792	Midsummer Nights, 2 ½ acts	Shakespeare, William	A midsummer night's dream.	1600	QuartoWG's sale catalog lists several editions of …
27 July 1792	Merchant of Venice, 1 ½ acts	Shakespeare, William	The comical history of the merchant of Venice, or otherwise called the Jew of Venice.	1600	QuartoWG's sale catalog lists several editions of …
28 July 1792	Much Ado, 3 acts	Shakespeare, William	Much ado about nothing.	1600	QuartoWG's sale catalog lists several editions of …
30 July 1792	Read Rowe's Life of Shakespeare	Rowe, Nicholas	The works of Mr. William Shakespear: in six volumes. Adorn'd with cuts, revis'd and co…	1709
30 July 1792	Pope's [Preface]	Pope, Alexander	The works of Shakespear.	1725	Preface to
30 July 1792	Johnson's Prefaces	Johnson, Samuel	The plays of William Shakespeare: in ten volumes, with the corrections and illustratio…	1773	1778 second edition WG's Diary for this date says:…
30 July 1792	Malone's Chronology	Malone, Edmund	An attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays of Shakespeare were written	1778	, in The plays of William Shakespeare, with notes …
31 July 1792	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Shakespeare, William	The two gentlemen of Verona.	1623	First Folio WG's sale catalog lists several editio…
1 August 1792	Stuart, 137 pages	Stuart, Gilbert	A view of society in Europe, in its progress from rudeness to refinement: or, inquirie…	1778
6 August 1792	Cibber's Richard, 3 acts	Shakespeare, William	The tragical history of King Richard III. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal.	1700	Cibber, Colley (adaptor)
7 August 1792	Essay on Falstaff	Morgann, Maurice	An essay on the dramatic character of Sir John Falstaff.	1777	OR Richardson, William Essays on Shakespeare's dra…
8 August 1792	Merry Wives	Shakespeare, William	The merry wives of Windsor.	1602	First QuartoWG's sale catalog lists several editio…
8 August 1792	Henry 6 I, 1 ½ acts	Shakespeare, William	The tirst part of Henry the Sixth.	1623	First Folio WG's sale catalog lists several editio…
9 August 1792	Lear	Shakespeare, William	The history of King Lear.	1607-8	First QuartoOR Shakespeare, William The tragedy of…
10 August 1792	Henry 6 II	Shakespeare, William	The second part of Henry VI.	1594	Quarto, under the title of The first part of the c…
11 August 1792	Henry 6 III	Shakespeare, William	The Third Part of Henry the Sixt.	1595	Octavo and 1600 Quarto under the title The true tr…
12 August 1792	Richard, 2 1/3 < > acts	Shakespeare, William	The tragedy of King Richard the Third.	1597	QuartoOR Shakespeare, William The tragedy of King …
13 August 1792	Henry 8, acts 1 & 2	Shakespeare, William	The famous history of the life of Henry the Eight.	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
15 August 1792	Julius Caesar, 3 acts	Shakespeare, William	The tragedy of Julius Caesar.	1623	First Folio WG's sale catalog lists several editio…
16 August 1792	Vie de Franklin, 28 pages	Franklin, Benjamin	Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin écrits par lui meme, et addressés a son…	1791	Gibelin, Jacques (translator)
20 August 1792	Prospects on the Rubicon, 22 pages	Paine, Thomas	Prospects on the Rubicon: or, an investigation into the causes and consequences of the…	1787	WG's sale catalog lists:Paine's (Tho.) Political W…
20 August 1792	Johnson's Life of Milton	Johnson, Samuel	Life of Milton.	1779-1781	in Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the wor…
20 August 1792	Toland's do, 30 pages	Toland, John	Life of Milton.	1698
21 August 1792	Chronology of Milton				Unable to identify.
21 August 1792	Woolston, 40 pages	Woolston, Thomas	Discourses on the miracles of our saviour, in view of the present controversy between …	1727-29
21 August 1792	Castle of Indolence, B. 1	Thomson, James	Castle of indolence. An allegorical poem. Written in imitation of Spenser.	1748
24 August 1792	Confessions, Part II, 92 pages	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Seconde partie des Confessions	1789	in Second Supplément á la Collection des Oeuvres d…
25 August 1792	Rousseau on Miracles, 37 pages	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Emile, ou de l'éducation, par J.-J. Rousseau, citoyen de Genève.	1762	Rousseau discusses miracles in Book IV of Emile. W…
25 August 1792	Dedication to the Republic, 22 pages				Unable to identify.
26 August 1792	As you Like it, 2 ½ acts	Shakespeare, William	As you like it.	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
28 August 1792	Rêveries, 33 pages	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire	1782	in Oeuvres posthumes de J.-J. Rousseau . . . ou Re…
29 August 1792	Read his journal [Jardine's]				Unable to identify.
29 August 1792	Cooper's Reply, 66 pages	Cooper, Thomas	A reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Com…	1792
30 August 1792	Nouvelles Lettres, 84 pages	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Nouvelles lettres de J.-J. Rousseau.	1789	Conjecture based on the fact that WG is reading a …
30 August 1792	Lettre à d'Alembert, 88 pages	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Jean Jacques Rousseau citoyen de Genève à M. D'Alembert, de l'Académie Françoise, de l…	1758	WG's sale catalog lists: Rousseau (J. J.) ses Oeuv…
4 September 1792	La Tactique	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	La Tactique. Pièce de vers de M. de Voltaire envoyée de Ferney par l'auteur a M. l'abb…	1773	de Voisenon le 30 novembre 1773.
4 September 1792	Borghesi's ms		An essay on civil government; or, society restored	1793	In her annotation to a letter by WG to Alexander J…
5 September 1792	Apocalypse, 34 pages		Book of Revelation		92-96 A.D.
7 September 1792	Rabaud's History, 105 pages	Rabaut, Jean-Paul	The history of the revolution of France	1792	White, James (translator) . Translated from the Fr…
8 September 1791	Patriot	Johnson, Samuel	The patriot. Addressed to the electors of Great Britain.	1774	(published anonymously)
8 September 1791	False Alarm	Johnson, Samuel	The false alarm. A defense of the conduct of the House of Commons towards John Wilkes.	1770
13 September 1792	Price par Mira., 16 pages	Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de	Considérations sur l'ordre Cincinnatus, ou imitation d'un pamphlet anglo-américain, pa…	1784	Translated as: Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquett…
16 September 1792	read the Liar	Anonymous	The liar: a comedy. In three acts.	1763
16 September 1792	Mably sur l'Amérique, 60 pages	Mably, Gabriel Bonnot, abbé de	Observations sur le gouvernement et les lois des États-Unis de l'Amerique, par M. l'ab…	1784
17 September 1792	Major Cartwrights pamphlet	Cartwright, John	A summary of a treatise by Major Cartwright, entitled The people's barrier against und…	1780	?OR Cartwright, John Letters to the deputies of th…
20 September 1792	Mably on Legislation, 26 pages	Mably, Gabriel Bonnot, abbé de	De la législation, ou Principes des lois par l'abbé de Mably.	1776
20 September 1792	Paley on War, 26 pages	Paley, William	The principles of moral and political philosophy.	1785	‘Of war, and of military establishments,' Book VI,…
20 September 1792	Jockey Club, 22 pages	Pigott, Charles	The Jockey Club, or a sketch of the manners of the age.	1792	Probably part the first, since the page count coin…
23 September 1792	Hobhouse; 75 pages	Hobhouse, Benjamin	A treatise on heresy, as cognizable by the spiritual courts. And an examination of the…	1792
26 September 1792	Rousseau à Malesherbes, 36 pages	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Lettres nouvelles de J.-J. Rousseau sur le motif de sa retraite à la campagne adressée…	1780	WG's sale catalog lists: Letters to Malesherbes, 1…
27 September 1792	Article, Fondation				Unable to identify.
1 October 1792	Odes of Importance	Pindar, Peter (John Wolcot)	Odes of importance, &c. To the shoemakers. To Mr. Burke. To irony. To Lord Lonsdale. T…	1792
2 October 1792	La Politique Naturelle, abrége, ça & la, 12 pages	d' Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron	La politique naturelle, ou Discours sur les vrais principes du gouvernemen, par un anc…	1773
3 October 1792	De la Maniére d'E. l'Hist., 26 pages	Mably, Gabriel Bonnot, abbé de	De la manière d'écrire l'histoire, par m. l'Abbé de Mably.	1783
3 October 1792	Hume's Essays, Pt I, Essays 2, 3, 4	Hume, David	Essays, moral and political.	1741	(originally anonymous) Essays, moral and political…
4 October 1792	Hume, Pt I, Essay 5: do on commerce, &c., 28 pages	Hume, David	Essays, moral and political.	1741	(originally anonymous) Essays, moral and political…
4 October 1792	Charlemagne, M., 50 pages	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Abregé de l'histoire universelle, depuis Charlemagne, jusques á Charlequint (sic). Par…	1753	OR Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet Essay sur l'his…
7 October 1792	Eloge de Montesquieu, 50 pages	D'Alembert, Jean de Rond	Eloge de Monsieur de Montesquieu, a la suite duquel on trovera: l'analyse de l'esprit …	1756	OR Lavaux, ---- Briquet, abbé de Éloge de Montesqu…
11 October 1792	Anecdotes of Chatham, Vol. 1, minus speeches	Almon, John	Anecdotes of the life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: and of the prin…	1792
13 October 1792	Plutarch's Cimon, 32 pages	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
13 October 1792	Sur les Grecs, 96 pages	Mably, Gabriel Bonnot, abbé de	Observations sur les Grecs.	1749
15 October 1792	Plutarch, Themistocles, 26 pages	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
16 October 1792	Logan, 121 pages	Logan, John	Elements of the philosophy of history, part first.	1781	Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord OR Log…
16 October 1792	Paine on the Proclamation, 17 pages	Paine, Thomas	Letter addressed to the addressers, on the late proclamation.	1792	WG's sale catalog lists: Paine's (Tho.) Political …
17 October 1792	Annual Register, 20 pages	Burke, Edmund	The annual register, or, A view of the history, politics, and literature for the year…	1758-1791	Dodsley, J.
18 October 1792	Barlow to the Convention, 47 pages	Barlow, Joel	A letter to the national convention of France: on the defects in the constitution of 1…	1792
19 October 1792	Wolcot's More Money	Pindar, Peter (John Wolcot)	More money! or, odes of instruction to Mr. Pitt: with a variety of other choice matter…	1792
20 October 1792	Aristides, 41 pages	Plutarchus (Plutarch)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
25 October 1792	Introduction to Smith's Thucydides, 39 pages	Thucydides	The history of the Peloponnesian war, translated from the Greek of Thucydides. In Two …	1753	Smith, William (translator)
27 October 1792	Flowers of the Jacobins, 42 pages	Anonymous	Flowers of the Jacobins, containing biographical sketches of the characters at present…	1792
29 October 1792	Price on the Am. Revoln, 85 pages	Price, Richard	Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of making it a…	1784
30 October 1792	Beccaria, 78 pages	Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di	Dei delitti e delle pene.	1764	Translated as: Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di An es…
1 November 1792	the Massacre	Inchbald, Elizabeth	The massacre, taken from the French; a tragedy of three acts in prose.	1792
4 November 1792	Pericles, Plutarch, 34 pages	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
10 November 1792	Versorand, 276 pages	de la Solle, Henri-François	Mémoires de Versorand.	1750	Translated as: de la Solle, Henri-François Hill, J…
13 November 1792	Ogilvie, 95 pages	Ogilvie, William (originally, anonymous)	An essay on the right of property in land, with respect to its foundation in the law o…	1781
18 November 1792	Holcroft's ms	Holcroft, Thomas			Not yet identified.
18 November 1792	Burke, six October, 14 pages	Burke, Edmund			Unable to identify.
20 November 1792	Holcroft's Chap. of Necessity	Holcroft, Thomas			Unable to identify title.
5 December 1792	Marriage à la mode	Dryden, John	Marriage a-la-mode. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal. Written by John Dry…	1673
5 December 1792	Duenna, 2 acts	Sheridan, Richard Brinsley	The duenna or double elopement, a comic-opera. As performed at the Theatre Royal in Co…	1775	Linley, Thomas (music) ?OR Badini, Carlo Francesco…
12 December 1792	Mably, sur l'Ordre Naturel, 22 pages	Mably, Gabriel Bonnot, abbé de	Doutes proposés aux philosophes économists sur l'ordre naturel et essentiel des sociét…	1768
14 December 1792	Hume on Refinement, 12 pages	Hume, David	Essays, moral and political	1742	(originally anonymous) ‘Of simplicity and refineme…
21 December 1792	School for Scandal, acts 4 & 5	Sheridan, Richard Brinsley	The school for scandal.	1780	Probably a pirated edition.
3 January 1793	Bibliotheque de l'Homme Public	Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de	Bibliothèque de l'homme public; ou Analyse raisonnée des principaux ouvrages françois …	1790	Peyssonel, Charles de Le Chapelier, Isaac R.
3 January 1793	Utopia	More, Sir Thomas	Utopia.	1516	WG's sale catalog lists: More's (Sir T.) Works, bl…
8 January 1793	reads his pamphlet	Barry, James	A letter to the Right Honourable the President, vice-presidents, and the rest of the n…	1793
9 January 1793	Benev. Quixote, 150	Purbeck, Jane (published anonymously)	William Thornborough, the benevolent Quixote. In four volumes.	1791
10 January 1793	Read Pol. Justice, 18 pages	Godwin, William	An enquiry concerning political justice and its influence on general virtue and happin…	1793	WG is reading the manuscript.
12 January 1793	Read Dunstan	Godwin, William	St. Dunstan.		unpublishedWG is reading the manuscript (now in th…
14 January 1793	Pamphlet by an Old Whig	Author unknown	The present state of the British constitution, deduced from facts. By an old Whig	1793	. Of approximately 11 possible titles by ‘an old W…
24 January 1793	H. Tooke's Trial	Tooke, John Horne Tooke	The trial (at large) of John Horne, Esq., upon an information filed ex officio by His …	1777	Gurney, Joseph This is the most recent of three pu…
24 January 1793	Vaughan on War, 78 pages	Vaughan, Benjamin	The essence of the calm observer, on the subjects of the concert of princes, the disme…	1792-1793
27 January 1793	read the Amorous Baronet	Lorraine Conti, Louise-Marguerite de	Intrigues of love: or, The amours and gallantries of the French court, during the reig…	1689	Sadleyr, Sir Edwine, baronet
28 January 1793	Fox's pamphlet	Fox, Charles James	Mr Fox's speech at the opening of Parliament.	1793	OR Fox, Charles James A letter from the Rt. Hon. C…
30 January 1793	McIntosh to Pitt	Mackintosh, Sir James	A letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt, on his apostacy from the cause of parli…	1792
30 January 1793	Virgil, vs 198	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)	Georgics.	1793-02	29 B.C. See diary -03 ‘End of B. IV.' Since Georgi…
30 January 1793	Hume's Essays, IV, V, 8 pages	Hume, David	Essays, moral and political.	1741	Essays, moral and political were incorporated into…
31 January 1793	Dehors Trompeurs, actes 1 & 2	Boissy, Louis de	Les dehors trompeurs, ou l'homme du jour, comédie de Monsieur de Boissy, représentée p…	1740
1 February 1793	Embarras du Choix, actes 1 & 2	Boissy, Louis de	L'embarras du choix. Comédie, en cinq actes, in vers.	1742
8 February 1793	Ecole des Maris, act 1	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	L'école des maris: comédie de I.B.P. Molière: representée sur le Théatre du Palais Roy…	1661	; first performed 1661 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
9 February 1793	Sallust, 5 pages	Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)	Bellum Catilinae. (The War with Catiline)	1677	Alternative titles: Catilina, Bellum Catiniarium D…
12 February 1793	Ecole des Femmes, acts 1, 2, 3	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	L'escole des femmes, comédie.	1663	; first performed 1662 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
16 February 1793	Les Facheux	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Les Fâcheux, comédie.	1662	; first performed 1661 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
17 February 1793	Etourdi, acts 1 & 2	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	L'estourdy;ou, Les contre-temps: comédie: representée sur le Theatre du Palais Royal.	1663	WG's sale catalog lists: Moliere, ses Oeuvres, 7 v…
21 February 1793	Read the Amorous Cynic	Holcroft, Thomas	Love's frailties, or, Precept against practice.	1794	WG was reading this work in manuscript.
23 February 1793	Horace, Odes 1 & 2	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)	Odes.	1792-1812	23 B.C. Books I-III; c. 13 B.C. Book IVWG's sale c…
25 February 1793	Cicero in Catilinam, Orat. I, §. 1 & 2	Cicero, Marcus Tullius	In Catilinum (Speech against Lucius Sergius Catilina)		Speech delivered 63 B.C.
26 February 1793	Voltaire's Life of Molière	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Vie de Molière, avec des judgemens sur ses ouvrages.	1739
27 February 1793	Middleton, 76 pages	Middleton, Conyers	The history of the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero: By Conyers Middleton.	1741	WG's sale catalog lists: Middleton's Life of Cicer…
27 February 1793	Lettres Chinoises, Volt., 30 pages	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Lettres choinoises, indiennes et tartars. A Monsieur Paw, par un Benedictin, avec plus…	1776
27 February 1793	Vie de Molière, Anon., 80 pages	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Oeuvres	1784	Unable to locate.Possibly contained in a collected…
2 March 1793	[Co?]cu Imaginaire	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Sganarelle, ou Le cocu imaginaire. Comedie. Avec les arguments de chaque scene.	1660	; first performed 1660
3 March 1793	Man as he is, p. 38	Bage, Robert	Man as he is. A novel. In four volumes.	1792
12 March 1793	Consult documents				Unable to identify.
13 March 1793	Pro Rabirio	Cicero, Marcus Tullius	Pro C. Rabirio Postumo Oratio. (The Speech on Behalf of Gaius Rabirius Postumus)		Speech delivered 54 B.C.
17 March 1793	De Bello Civili, §. 106	Caesar, Gaius Julius	Bellum Civile. (The Civil Wars)		c. 48-44 B.C.
18 March 1793	Epist. I	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)	Epistularum. (Epistles)	1792-1812	20 B.C. Book IWG's sale catalog lists two editions…
19 March 1793	Turgot, p. 182-189	Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de	Vie de M. Turgot.	1786	OR Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, baron de l'Aulne R…
21 March 1793	Pro S. Roscio, §. 1, 2, 3, 4	Cicero, Marcus Tullius	Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino. (In defence of Sextus Roscius of Ameria)		Speech delivered 80 B.C.
25 March 1793	Franklin's Miscellanies ms, passim	Franklin, Benjamin	Miscellanies, moral and instructive, in prose and verse.	1787	Moore, Milcah Martha (compiler) Ralling, John (als…
26 March 1793	Vertot, Tom. III, p. 71-131	Vertot, René Aubert de Vertot, abbé de	Histoire des révolutions arrivés dans le gouvernement de la République romaine	1719	. 3 volumes. Translated as: Vertot, René Aubert de…
27 March 1793	Suetonius, J. C. §. 1-6	Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus)	De vita Caesarum. (Lives of the Caesars)		119-22 A.D. or earlier
27 March 1793	Crucius's Roman Poets, ça et la	Crusius, Lewis	The lives of the Roman poets.	1726-1732
31 March 1793	Pictet to Woronzoff, p. 10				Unable to identify.
1 April 1793	Horace, A. P., 239	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)	Ars poetica (The art of poetry)	1792-1812	in Epistularum. (Epistles) probably 23-20 B.C. WG'…
5 April 1793	Horace, Sat. III, vs. 103	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)	Sermonum. (Satires)	1792-1812	probably 35 B.C.WG's sale catalog lists several ed…
4 April 1793	Rollin's Rom. Hist. p. 30	Rollin, Charles	The roman history from the foundation of Rome to the battle of Actium; that is, to the…	1739-50	Crevier, Jean Baptiste Louis Translated from: Roll…
8 April 1793	Philosophie de l'Hist., p. 28	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	La philosophie de l'histoire. Par feu l'abbe Bazin.	1765
10 April 1793	Hooke, p. 101	Hooke, Nathaniel	The Roman history, from the building of Rome to the ruin of the Commonwealth. Illustra…	1738-41	WG's sale catalog lists a later edition: Hooke's (…
10 April 1793	Plutarch, Life of Romulus, 39 pp	Plutarchus (Plutarch)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
11 April 1793	Count Fathom, p. 186	Smollett, Tobias	The adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom.	1753
15 April 1793	Mort d'Adam	Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb	La mort d'Adam: tragedie; traduite de L'Allemand.	1758	Translated from: Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb Der…
15 April 1793	Mysterious Mother	Walpole, Horace	The mysterious mother: a tragedy. By Mr. Horace Walpole.	1768
15 April 1793	Religious Courtship, p. 170-264	Defoe, Daniel	Religious courtship: being historical discourses, on the necessity of marrying religio…	1722
16 April 1793	Mort d'Abel, Chant I & III	Gessner, Salomon	La mort d'Abel, poème en cinq chants, traduit de l'allemand de M. Gessner, par M. Hube…	1760
17 April 1793	Roderic Random	Smollett, Tobias	The adventures of Roderick Random. In two volumes. By Dr. Smollett.	1780	Harr. = printed for Harrison and co. as volume 2 i…
19 April 1793	½ Winter's Tale	Shakespeare, William	The winter's tale.	1623	FolioWG's sale catalog lists several editions of S…
19 April 1793	½ Othello	Shakespeare, William	The tragedy of Othello the Moore of Venice	1603-4	; 1622 First Quarto; 1623 First FolioWG's sale cat…
19 April 1793	Britannicus, 3 acts	Racine, Jean	Britannicus, tragédie.	1670	; first performed 1669
21 April 1793	scenes of Shylock				Unable to identify.
22 April 1793	Trenck the Pandour, 112 pages	Trenck, Franz, Freiherr von	Memoirs of the life of the illustrious Francis Baron Trenck, sometime Lord of the Bed-…	1747
25 April 1793	Andromaque, acts 1 & 2	Racine, Jean	Andromaque, tragédie.	1668	; first performed 1667
26 April 1793	Preface to Knolles's Turks	Knolles, Richard	The generall historie of the Turkes, from the first beginning of that nation to the ri…	1603	WG's sale catalog lists: Knolles' (Rich.) General …
27 April 1793	Hume's Henry 8, 2 chaps, perfuncte	Hume, David	The history of England, under the House of Tudor: comprehending the reigns of K. Henry…	1759	Later published in: Hume, David The history of Eng…
28 April 1793	Fatal Curiosity, act 1	Lillo, George	The fatal curiosity. A true tragedy of three acts. As it is acted at the New Theatre i…	1737	OR Mackenzie, Henry The shipwreck: or, fatal curio…
28 April 1793	consult Wanley on Man	Wanley, Nathaniel	The wonders of the little world: or, a general history of man. In six books. Wherein b…	1678
29 April 1793	God's Revenge, p. 24	Reynolds, John	The triumphs of Gods revenge, against the crying, and execrable sinne of murther.	1621	OR Wall, Thomas God's revenge against the enemies …
2 May 1793	Herman d'Una, p. 104				Unable to identify.
9 May 1793	Moliere, Marriage Forcé	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Le marriage forcé: comédie.	1668	; first performed 1664 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
10 May 1793	Athalie, actes 1 & 2	Racine, Jean	Athalie: tragédie. Tirée de l'ecriture sainte. Par M. de Racine.	1691	; first performed 1691
13 May 1793	Per. Pickle, p. 28	Smollett, Tobias	The adventures of Peregrine Pickle.	1751
17 May 1793	Man of Feeling, p. 175-201	Mackenzie, Henry	The man of feeling.	1771
21 May 1793	Grandison, 56 pages	Richardson, Samuel	The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters published from the origin…	1753-54
27 May 1793	Duplicity	Holcroft, Thomas	Duplicity: a comedy. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, in Covent Garden. By Tho…	1781	.
29 May 1793	Gamester, acts 1, 2, 3	Centlivre, Susanna	The gamester: a comedy.	1705	Prologue by N Rowe; adaptation of either Destauche…
1 June 1793	Noble Peasant	Holcroft, Thomas	The noble peasant: a comic opera, in three acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, in…	1784
3 June 1793	Timon, act 1	Shakespeare, William	The life of Timon of Athens.	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
4 June 1793	Charles 12, p. 67	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suède, par M. de V***.	1731
6 June 1793	Mrs Barbauld's Sermon.	Barbauld, Anna Letitia	Civic sermons to the people. NumberI. Nay, why even of yourselves, judge ye not what i…	1792
8 June 1793	Humphry Clinker, p. 137	Smollett, Tobias	The expedition of Humphry Clinker.	1771
10 June 1793	Old Bachelor, acts 1, 2, 3	Congreve, William	The old batchelor. A comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal. By Their Majesties s…	1693
13 June 1793	Epod. 1	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)	Epodon. (The Epodes)	1792-1812	c. 29 B.C.WG's sale catalog lists:Horatius (3 copi…
13 June 1793	Hugh Trevor, ms, p. 206	Holcroft, Thomas	The adventures of Hugh Trevor.	1794
14 June 1793	Roubigné, p. 194	Mackenzie, Henry	Julia de Roubigné: a tale. In a series of letters. Published by the author of The man …	1777
15 June 1793	Gardiner				Unable to identify.
15 June 1793	Double Dealer, 4 acts	Congreve, William	The double-dealer: a comedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by Their Majesties servants. …	1694
15 June 1793	Consult Mahomet	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet le Prophète, tragédie, par M. de Voltaire.	1743	Conjecture based on WG's interest in drama and rec…
17 June 1793	Jonathan Wild	Fielding, Henry	The life of Jonathan Wild the great. By Henry Fielding, Esq.	1782	NM = printed for Harrison and co. as volume 9 in a…
18 June 1793	Cecilia, Vol. V, p. 218-256	Burney, Frances (Mrs. D'Arblay)	Cecilia, or Memoirs of an heiress, by the author of Evelina.	1782
19 June 1793	Launcelot Greaves, p. 72	Smollett, Tobias	The life and adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves. By Dr. Smollett. In two volumes.	1782	NM = printed for Harrison and co. as volume 9 in a…
19 June 1793	Sent. Journey, p. 11	Sterne, Laurence	A sentimental journey through France and Italy.	1768
21 June 1793	Yorick, p. 38	Sterne, Laurence	The sermons of Mr. Yorick	1760	[first title page]; Sermons by Laurence Sterne, A.…
22 June 1793	Tartuffe, act 1	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Le Tartuffe, ou L'imposteur: comédie par J.-B. P. de Molière.	1669	; first performed 1664 WG's sale catalog lists:Mol…
23 June 1793	Jasper Wilson, p. 86	Wilson, Jasper (James Currie)	A letter, commercial and political, addressed to the Rt. Honble. William Pitt, in whic…	1793
24 June 1793	Sethos, p. 45	Terrasson, Jean	Sethos, histoire ou vie tirée des monumens anecdotes de l'ancienne Egypte. Traduit d'u…	1731
25 June 1793	Horace, C. S.	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)	The odes, epodes, and carmen seculare of Horace, translated into English prose … toget…	1712	WG's sale catalog lists:Horatius (3 copies) Edinb.…
25 June 1793	Nonjuror, acts 1, 2/2	Cibber, Colley	The non-juror: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesty's servant…	1718
26 June 1793	Misantrope, acts 1 & 2	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Le misanthrope, comédie, par J.-B. P. de Molière.	1667	; first performed 1666 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
28 June 1793	Double Gallant, 4 acts	Cibber, Colley	The double gallant: or, the sick lady's cure. A comedy. As it is acted at the Queen's …	1707
29 June 1793	Oedipe, 4 acts	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Oedipe, tragédie. Par Monsieur de Voltaire.	1719	WG's sale catalog lists:Voltaire, Theatre, Henriad…
30 June 1793	Mariamne, act 1	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Hérode et Mariamne: tragédie. Représentée pour la première fois le 6 mars 1723.	1725	WG's sale catalog lists:Voltaire, Theatre, Henriad…
3 July 1793	Phedre, Act 1	Racine, Jean	Phèdre et Hippolyte: tragédie par M. Racine.	1677	; first performed 1677
3 July 1793	Gen. Lee, p. 70	Lee, Charles	Memoirs of the life of the late Charles Lee, Esq. lieutenant-colonel of the forty four…	1792
9 July 1793	Roxana, p. 120	Defoe, Daniel	The fortunate mistress: or, a history of the life and vast variety of fortunes of Made…	1724
11 July 1793	Crisis, No. 1 & 2	Paine, Thomas	The American crisis.	1776	Number I-IV WG's sale catalog lists only: Paine's …
11 July 1793	Horne to Ashburton	Tooke, John Horne	A letter to Lord Ashburton, from Mr. Horne, occasioned by last Tuesday's debate in the…	1782
12 July 1793	Freinsheim's 2. C., Ch. 1	Freinsheim, Johann, and others	C. Cornelii Taciti opera quae exstant. Integris Beati Rhenani, Fulvii Ursini, M. Anton…	1721	. 2 volumes. WG's sale catalog lists: Tacite Opera…
13 July 1793	Voltaire's Charles Edward	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Précis du siècle de Louis XV, par M. de Voltaire.	1769	Chapters XXIV and XXV
13 July 1793	Countess of Nithisdale			1716	Unable to identify.WG's sale catalog lists only: N…
13 July 1793	Ascanius, p. 30	Griffiths, Ralph	Ascaniu; or, the young adventurer; a true history. Translated from a manuscript privat…	1746	Burton, John (also attributed to)
13 July 1793	Horne <a> to Dunning, p. 20	Tooke, John Horne	A letter to John Dunning, Esq. By Mr. Horne.	1778	WG's sale catalog lists: Tooke's (Jo. Horne) Lette…
14 July 1793	Behaviour of Lovat, 28 pp	Author unknown	A candid and impartial account of the behaviour of Simon Lord Lovat, from the time his…	1747
15 July 1793	Journal of the Chevalier, 80 pp	Burton, John	A genuine and true journal of the most miraculous escape of the young Chevalier, from …	1749
15 July 1793	Orleans, Vol. IV, p. 36 [+16, Penderel]				Unable to identify.
16 July 1793	Paysan Parvenu, p. 102	Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de	Le Paysan parvenu, ou, Les Memoires de M***.	1734
18 July 1793	Rom. of ye Forest, p. 147	Radcliffe, Ann Ward	The romance of the forest: interspersed with some pieces of poetry. By the authoress o…	1791
19 July 1793	Curtius, Lib. III, §. 1, 2, 3	Curtius, Quintus	Actes of the great Alexander, trans. by Jo. Brende.	1561	WG's sale catalog lists: Curtius's (Quintus) Acts …
20 July 1793	Locke on H. U., Vol. 1, p. 67-81	Locke, John	An essay concerning humane understanding. In four books.	1790	WG's sale catalog lists: Locke's Essay concerning …
25 July 1793	Figaro	Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de	Le marriage de Figaro.	1784	Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de OR Holcroft…
26 July 1793	Court of Augustus, p. 38	Blackwell, Thomas	Memoirs of the court of Augustus. By Thomas Blackwell…	1753-55	This work was continued and finished by John Mills…
27 July 1793	Heir at Age, notes	Colman, George	The heir at law; a comedy in five acts.	1790	Unable to identify.This could be a manuscript that…
31 July 1793	Philipa I, §. 1-9				Unable to identify.
11 August 1793	Crevier's Augustus, p. 62	Crevier, Jean Baptiste Louis	The history of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine. By Mr. Crevier, … Tran…	1655-61	Translated from: Crevier, Jean Baptiste Louis Hist…
12 August 1793	Parr on Education	Parr, Samuel	A discourse on education and on the plans pursued in charity-schools.	1786
15 August 1793	Desmond, p. 187	Smith, Charlotte Turner	Desmond. A novel, in three volumes. By Charlotte Smith.	1792
16 August 1793	Boccaccio, una novella	Boccaccio, Giovanni	The decameron.	1349-52	?WG's sale catalog lists: Decameron, 2 vol., 1527,…
22 August 1793	Eryphile, 4 acts	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Eriphile, tragédie de M. de Voltaire, représentée par les comédiens ordinaries du roi,…	1779	[sic]. WG's sale catalog lists:Voltaire, Theatre, …
22 August 1793	Peripatetic, 40 pages	Thelwall, John	The peripatetic; or, Sketches of the heart, of nature and society; in a series of poli…	1793	[pseud.], supposed to be written by himself.
23 August 1793	Thelwal on Vitality, 40 pages	Thelwall, John	An essay towards a definition of animal vitality, read at the theatre, Guy's Hospital,…	1793
24 August 1793	Day of Reckoning				Unable to identify.
26 August 1793	Des Lettres de Cachet, p. 29	Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, comte de	Enquiries concerning letters de cachet, the consequences of arbitrary imprisonment, an…	1787	Translated from: Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti…
26 August 1793	Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 3 acts	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Le bourgeois-gentilhomme, comédie-ballet, donné par le Roy a toute sa cour dans le cha…	1671	; first performed 1670 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
28 August 1793	miss Williams, Vol. III, 286; Vol. IV, p. 170	Williams, Helen Maria	Letters from France: containing a great variety of interesting and original informatio…	1793
30 August 1793	Dryden, Sigismunda	Boccaccio, Giovanni	Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer…	1700	John Dryden ‘Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccac…
30 August 1793	La Fontaine, 2 contes	La Fontaine, Jean de	Contes et nouvelles en vers de M. de La Fontaine.	1665	WG's catalog lists only: La Fontaine, Contes et Fa…
30 August 1793	Treachery, no crime: 160 pages	Pigott, Charles	Treachery no crime, or the system of courts. Exemplified in the life, character, and l…	1793
30 August 1793	Thelwal's Howard, 28 ps	Thelwall, John	Sketch of the life of John Howard.	1790
31 August 1793	Flower & Leaf	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The flower and the leaf; or, The lady in the arbour. A vision.	1700	Dryden, John in Fables ancient and modern; transla…
1 September 1793	Scapin, act 1	Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin	Les fourberies de Scapin, comédie.	1671	; first performed 1671 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
3 September 1793	Battle of Barnet				Unable to identify.
3 September 1793	Dandin, act 1	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	George Dandin ou le Mari confondu. Comédie de Monsieur de Molière.	1669	; first performed 1668 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
6 September 1793	Wife of Bath	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury Tales.	1390	‘The Wife of Bath Her Tale' in composed s; first p…
13 September 1793	Cleveld, p. 38	Cleveland, John	The life and entertaining adventures of Mr. Cleveland, natural son of Oliver Cromwell.…	1734-1735	OR Cleaveland, John Poems. 1653-54 WG's sale catal…
18 September 1793	Dryden, Honoria	Boccaccio, Giovanni	Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer…	1700	Dryden, John ‘Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace' …
19 September 1793	Psyche, acte 1	Moliére, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Psiche, tragedie-ballet.	1671	; first performed 1671
20 September 1793	Bolingbroke, P. W., p. 24	Bolingbroke, Henry Saint-John	The philosophical works of … Henry St. John, Lord viscount Bolingbroke. In 5 volumes.	1754
20 September 1793	Dryden, Cymon	Boccaccio, Giovanni	Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer…	1700	Dryden, John ‘Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace' i…
21 September 1793	Femmes Savantes, act 1	Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin	Les femmes scavantes, comédie, par J.-B. P. Molière.	1672-73	; first performed 1672 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
23 September 1793	Pourceaugnac, act 1	Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin	Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, comédie	1670	; first performed 1669 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
28 September 1793	Amorous Cynic, 2 acts	Holcroft, Thomas	Love's frailties, or, Precept against practice.	1794	(Also known as Amorous cynic, a comedy in 5 acts.)…
30 September 1793	David Simple, p. 21	Fielding, Sarah	The adventures of David Simple: containing an account of his travels through the citie…	1744
4 October 1793	Juvenal, Sat. I, vs. 31	Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis)	Iuvenalis Saturae. (The Satires of Juvenal)	1623	c. 100 A.D.WG's sale catalog lists:Juvenalis et Pe…
4 October 1793	Jack Shepherd, &c	Anonymous	The surprising lives and adventures of Jack Shepherd, and Jonathan Wild.	1720	s OR possibly WG is reading from a collection, suc…
7 October 1793	Consult Howard on Prisons	Howard, John	The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an a…	1777
9 October 1793	Lives of the Convicts, 100 pages	Anonymous	Select trials for murders, robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, frauds, And other Offenc…	1734-5	A subsequent edition uses the same title but a lat…
11 October 1793	Cath. Hayes, &c., 60 pp.	Anonymous	Select trials for murders, robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, frauds, And other Offenc…	1793-10	Unable to identify separate work. Possibly WG cont…
19 October 1793	Le Sicilien	Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin	Le sicilien: ou l'amour peintre, comédie, par J.-B. P. de Molière.	1668	; first performed 1667 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
21 October 1793	Sheppard, 37 pp.	Defoe, Daniel	The history of the remarkable life of John Sheppard, containing a particular account o…	1724	OR Anonymous Authentic memoirs of the life and sur…
25 October 1793	Nithisdale	Stewart, Sir James	Naphtali, or, The wrestlings of the Church of Scotland for the Kingdom of Christ conta…	1793-07	Possibly a continuation of WG's reading from -13.O…
25 October 1793	Cha. Edward, p. 39	Anonymous	The Wanderer [Prince Charles Edward] or, surprizing escape … Containing a series of re…	1747
25 October 1793	Cha. Price, pp. 56	Anonymous	An authentic account of forgeries and frauds of various kinds committed by that most c…	1786	OR Anonymous Memoirs of a social monster; or, The …
26 October 1793	Marguerite d'Anjou, p. 68	Prévost, Antoine-François, abbé	Histoire de Marguerite d'Anjou, reine d'angleterre.	1740
8 November 1793	Moore's Journal, p. 236	Moore, John	A journal during a residence in France: From the beginning of August, to the middle of…	1793
8 November 1793	Life of Foley, p. 145	Anonymous	The life and amours of Lady Ann F-l-y, developing the whole of her intrigues, from the…	1782
11 November 1793	Bentham on Govt, p. 123	Bentham, Jeremy	A fragment on government; being an examination of what is delivered, on the subject of…	1776
13 November 1793	Gallery of Portraits, 50 pp	Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de	Gallery of portraits of the National Assembly, supposed to be written by Count de Mira…	1790	Translated from: Luchet, Jean-Pierre-Louis de (att…
20 November 1793	Turgot, sur les Grains, p. 38	Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, baron de l'Aulne	Lettres sur les grains ecrites à M. l'abbé Terray, contrôleur general.	1771
20 November 1793	Condorcet, Vie de Turgot: p. 56	Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de	Vie de M. Turgot.	1786
22 November 1793	Bentham on Usury, p. 128.	Bentham, Jeremy	Defence of usury: shewing the impolicy of the present legal restraints on the terms of…	1787	WG's sale catalog lists:Bentham's Defence of Usury…
23 November 1793	Calonne sur les Grains	Calonne, Claude-François de	Essai d'agriculture, en forme d'entretiens: sur la nature & la progression des pepiniè…	1779
23 November 1793	N. A. R., 1791, p. 40		The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature, f…	1792
23 November 1793	Read mrs D'Arblay	Burney, Frances (Mrs. d'Arblay)	Cecilia, or Memoirs of an heiress, by the author of Evelina.	1782	Conjecture based on WG's reading vol. 5 of this no…
26 November 1793	Burke to a Member of N. A.	Burke, Edmund	A letter from Mr. Burke, to a member of the National Assembly: in answer to some objec…	1791
26 November 1793	Turgot au dr Price	Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, baron de l'Aulne	Observations on the importance of the American revolution and the means of making it …	1784	‘Letter from M. Turgot to the author [i.e. Richard…
27 November 1793	Epicaris, p. 120	Le Noble, Eustache	Epicaris, suite des histories secrètes des plus fameuses conspirations.	1698
28 November 1793	Jacqueline le B., p. 60	La Roche-Guilhem, Anne de	Jacqueline de Bavière, comtesse de Hainaut, nouvelle historique, par Mlle La Roche-Gui…	1707
29 November 1793	Stuart's Reformation, p. 132	Stuart, Gilbert	The history of the establishment of the reformation of religion in Scotland.	1780
3 December 1793	Muir's Trial, pp. 160	Muir, Thomas	An account of the trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. younger, of Huntershill, before the High …	1793
5 December 1793	Life of Franklin, p. 102	Franklin, Benjamin	Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin écrits par lui meme, et addressés a son…	1791	Gibelin, Jacques (French translator) Godwin probab…
9 December 1793	Bayle sur la Comete, p. 20	Bayle, Pierre	Pensées diverses, écrits á un docteur de Sorbonne, a l'occasion de la cométe qui parut…	1683
11 December 1793	Political Progress, pp. 71	Callender, James Thomson	The political progress of Britain: or, An impartial account of the principal abuses in…	1792	.
14 December 1793	Fortune's Frolics, < > acts 1, 2, 3	Allingham, John Till	Fortune's Frolic, a farce.	1799	; first performed 1799 The title closest in date t…
20 December 1792	Johnson's Lives, p. 102	Johnson, Samuel	Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the English poets.	1779-81	WG's sale catalog lists: Johnson's (S.) Lives of E…
24 December 1793	Life of Defoe, pp. 71				Unable to locate a title of this page length.
26 December 1793	Colonel Jack, p. 204	Defoe, Daniel	The history and remarkable life of the truly honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd C…	1722
31 December 1793	Gerald's pamphlet, p. 47.	Gerrald, Joseph	A convention the only means of saving us from ruin: in a letter addressed to the peopl…	1793
9 January 1794	Advice to an Author, p. 39	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of	Soliloquy, or, Advice to an author.	1710
11 January 1794	Pathetic Odes	Pindar, Peter (John Wolcot)	Pathetic odes: The Duke of Richmond's dog Thunder, and the widow's pigs, a tale; The p…	1794	.
21 January 1794	Hawles, pp. 50	Hawles, Sir John	The English-mans right: a dialogue between a barrister at law and a jury-man: plainly …	1680	Possibly: This work is only 40 pages in length, bu…
22 January 1794	Wyvil to Pitt, pp. 37	Wyvill, Christopher	A letter to the Right Hon. William Pitt by the Rev. Christopher Wyvill, late chairman …	1793
23 January 1794	Savage, p. 65	Johnson, Samuel	An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.	1744	Included in The works of Richard Savage, Esq., son…
27 January 1794	Inchbald's Romance	Inchbald, Elizabeth	Nature and art.	1796	WG is reading the manuscript.
11 February 1794	Trois Imposteurs, p. 65		Traité des trois imposteurs.	1768	Lucas, Jean Maximilien (attributed to)Vroes, Jean …
11 February 1794	Life of Wharton, pp. 54	Wharton, Philip, duke of	The life and writings of Philip, late duke of Wharton: in two volumes.	1731-1732	Carew, Sir William Includes: Mitchell, John Memoir…
13 February 1794	Characteristics, Vol. II, p. 39	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of	Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times: in three volumes.	1711	WG's sale catalog lists: Shaftesbury's Characteris…
13 February 1794	Wharton's Works, p. 51	Wharton, Philip, duke of	The life and writings of Philip, late duke of Wharton: in two volumes.	1731-1732	Carew, Sir William
21 February 1794	Brissot, p. 23			1794-02	Unable to determine which of Brissot's many works …
23 February 1794	Brissot aux Commettans, p. 24	Brissot, Jacques-Pierre, de Warville	J.-P. Brissot, deputé du département d'Eure et Loire, à ses commettans, sur la situati…	1792	or 1793 Translated as: Brissot, Jacques-Pierre, de…
24 February 1794	Udolpho, p. 114	Radcliffe, Ann Ward	The mysteries of Udolpho, a romance; interspersed with some pieces of poetry.	1794
6 March 1794	Mallet du Pan, pp. 112	Mallet du Pan, Jacques	Considérations sur la nature de la révolution de France, et sur les causes qui en prol…	1793	Translated as: Mallet du Pan, Jacques Consideratio…
13 March 1794	History of Brissotins, pp. 68	Desmoulins, Camille	The history of the Brissotins, or, Part of the secret history of the revolution, and o…	1794	Translated from: Desmoulins, Camille Histoire des …
14 March 1794	Rockm Party	Godwin, William	A defence of the Rockingham party.	1783	WG may be reading his own pamphlet.OR the followin…
17 March 1794	Thelwal on spies, perfunctorie	Thelwall, John	Political lectures (no. 1) On the moral tendency of a system of spies and informers, a…	1794	474. Thelwal on Fasts 1794-03-22Unable to identify…
23 March 1794	Modrec, p. 70	Thelwall, John	The Rock of Modrec, or, the Legend of Sir Eltram: an ethical romance translated from a…	1792
26 March 1794	Gow, p. 29	Defoe, Daniel	An account of the conduct and proceedings of the late John Gow alias Smith, captain of…	1725	… OR Defoe, Daniel The history and lives of all th…
28 March 1794	Margt p. 82	Margarot, Maurice	The trial of Maurice Margarot: before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on t…	1794	Ramsey, William
29 March 1794	Tocsin, pp. 58	Guffroy, A. B. J.	Le tocsin: sur la permanence de la garde nationale, sur l'organisation des municipalit…	1789	OR Stewart, John, the Traveller The tocsin of Brit…
31 March 1794	Crombie on Necessity, ça & la	Crombie, Alexander	An essay on philosophical necessity.	1793
5 April 1794	Eaton's Trial, pp. 62	Eaton, Daniel Isaac	The trial of Daniel Isaac Eaton: before Lloyd Lord Kenyon, and a special jury, in the …	1793	(65 p.)OR Eaton, Daniel Isaac The trial of Daniel …
6 April 1794	Chevalier, p. 21	Couvray, Jean-Baptiste Louvet de	Une année de la vie du Chevalier de Faublas.	1786-1787	WG reads the preceding item on 1794-06-26. Here he…
10 April 1794	Female Jockey Club, ça & la	Pigott, Charles	The female jockey club; or, A sketch of the manners of the age.	1794
11 April 1794	Bathos, p. 25	Pope, Alexander	Peri bathous: or, Martinus Scriblerus, his treatise of The art of sinking in poetry.	1727
12 April 1794	Scriblerus, p. 51	Pope, Alexander	Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works, and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus.	1741	in The works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in prose (2 vo…
14 April 1794	Williams	Williams, John Henry, vicar of Wellsbourn	Two sermons on the public fasts of April 1793, and February 1794.	1794
16 April 1794	John Bull, p. 30	Arbuthnot, John	Law is a bottomless-pit exemplify'd in the case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nichola…	1712	According to the ‘John Bull' article in the Encycl…
21 April 1794	Age of Reason, Paine, p. 20	Paine, Thomas	The age of reason. Being an investigation of true and of fabulous theology. By Thomas …	1794	WG's sale catalog lists:Paine's (Tho.) Theological…
23 April 1794	Clarissa, 34 ps	Richardson, Samuel	Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady: comprehending the most important concerns o…	1747-1748
24 April 1794	Letter to M. P., p. 52	Bentley, Thomas Richard	A Letter to a member of the House of Commons, upon the meeting of Parliament.	1794	Conjecture based on date and subject.
24 April 1794	miss Williams, Vol. I, p. 161	Williams, Helen Maria	Letters written in France in the summer 1790, to a friend in England: containing various …	1790
5 May 1794	Lettres Persanes, p. 52	Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de	Lettres persanes.	1721
7 May 1794	Reynolds, Discourse I	Reynolds, Joshua	Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the President.	1778
13 May 1794	Williams, Vol. II	Williams, Helen Maria	Letters from France, containing many new anecdotes realting to the French Revolution, …	1792
13 May 1794	Dumourier, 50 pp.	Dumouriez, Charles François du Périer	Mémoire du général Dumouriez.	1794	OR the translation: Dumouriez, Charles François du…
20 May 1794	Wakefield v. Paine, pp. 58	Wakefield, Gilbert	An examination of The age of reason: or an investigation of true and fabulous theology…	1794
21 May 1794	Gerald's Defence, pp. 57	Gerrald, Joseph	The defence of Joseph Gerrald, on a charge of sedition, before the High Court of Justi…	1794
24 May 1794	Life of Smollet, pp. 30	Smollett, Tobias	Plays and poems written by T. Smollett, M. D. With memoirs of the life and writings of …	1777	The only life of Smollett at this time was publish…
24 May 1794	Regicide, act 1	Smollett, Tobias	The regicide, or, James the First, of Scotland, a tragedy.	1749
27 May 1794	Farce by Smollet	Smollett, Tobias	The reprisal, or, The tars of old England, a comedy of two acts, as it is performed at…	1757
31 May 1794	Thelwal on Prosecutions, pp. 30	Thelwall, John	Political lectures (no. 2) Sketches of the history of prosecutions for political opini…	1794
7 June 1794	Hume on Populousness, p. 32	Hume, David	Political discourses. By David Hume, Esq.	1753	‘Of the populousness of antient nations' in Incorp…
15 June 1794	Judicial Astrology, act 1				Unable to identify.
20 June 1794	Knights's Landscape, Book 1 & 2	Knight, Richard Payne	The landscape, a didactic poem: In three books. Addressed to Uvedale Price, Esq. By R.…	1794
26 June 1794	Faublas, p. 92	Couvray, Jean-Baptiste Louvet de	Une année de la vie du Chevalier de Faublas.	1786-1787	OR one of the following titles in the series: Six …
26 June 1794	Fabre d'Eglantine	Fabre d'Églantine, Philippe-François-Nazaire	Opinion de Ph.-Fr.-Na. Fabre-Églantine, député de Paris, sur l'appel au peuple, relati…	1793	OR Fabre d'Églantine, Philippe-Francois-Nazaire Le…
26 June 1794	Merry's Ode	Merry, Robert	Ode for the fourteenth of July, 1791, the day consecrated to freedom being the anniversary …	1791
27 June 1794	First Report secrecy	House of Commons	The first and second report, from the Committee of Secrecy, together with their append…	1795
2 July 1794	Read T. Gracchus	Gracchus [pseudonym]	An appeal to Britons. By a friend.	1794	Considering the many titles signed ‘Gracchus' duri…
8 July 1794	Amitié Trompée, 66 pages	Maradan, Claude-François (editor)	L'Amitié trompée; ou, Lettres du comte de Saint-Julien, traduit d'anglois, sur la seco…	1788
9 July 1794	Hume on Tragedy, 10 pp.	Hume, David	Four dissertations. By David Hume, Esq.	1757	‘Of tragedy' in Later incorporated into Essays mor…
9 July 1794	Dryden's Ovid, 12 pages	Dryden, John	Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer…	1700	Conjecture based on WG's earlier reading of Fables…
19 July 1794	Hume, Standard of Taste, 24 pp.	Hume, David	Four dissertations. By David Hume, Esq.	1757	‘Of the standard of taste' in Later incorporated i…
20 July 1794	Hume, Phil. Sects, p. 12	Hume, David	Essays, moral and political	1742	Possibly the essays on ‘The Epicurean,' ‘The Stoic…
14 July 1794	Rambler, 9 Nos	Johnson, Samuel	The Rambler … In four volumes. Embellished with elegant frontispieces …	1749-1751	‘Published semi-weekly from Mar. 20, 1750 to Mar. …
19 July 1794	Smith's Moral Sentiments, p. 60	Smith, Adam	The theory of moral sentiments, or, An essay towards an analysis of the principles by …	1759
21 July 1794	Virgil, Lib. VII, vs. 211	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)	Aeneis. (The Aeneid)	1787	left unfinished at Virgil's death in 19 B.C.WG's s…
24 July 1794	Scotish Songs, ça & la	Ritson, Joseph (compiled by)	Scotish songs: in two volumes.	1794	Conjecture. Of three possible titles, this one is …
24 July 1794	Wakefield to York, pp. 33	Wakefield, Gilbert	Remarks on the general orders of the Duke of York to his army, on June 7, 1794.	1794	This title does not quite match WG's notation, whi…
25 July 1794	Lequinio, p. 13	Lequinio, J. M.	Opinion de Lequinio sur le jugement de Louis XVI.	1792	Various titles by Lequinio would match WG's curren…
30 July 1794	Montesq. sur le Gout, pp. 46	Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de	Essai sur le goût dans des choses de la nature et de l'art.	1757
3 August 1794	P. of S., act 1				Unable to identify.
5 August 1794	Darwin, p. 13	Darwin, Erasmus	Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life.	1794-1796	Darwin, Robert Waring WG's sale catalog lists:Darw…
6 August 1794	Sicilian Romce, p. 100	Radcliffe, Ann Ward	A Sicilian romance.	1790
8 August 1794	Ghost, B. I	Churchill, Charles	The ghost.	1762
15 August 1794	Indian Queen	Dryden, John	The Indian queen.	1665	Howard, Sir Robert First printed as a work of Howa…
15 August 1794	On Dramatic Poesy, p. 38	Dryden, John	Of dramatick poesy, an essay.	1668
19 August 1794	Indian Emperor, acts 1, 2, 3, 4	Dryden, John	The Indian emperour, or, The conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Being the sequel to …	1667
19 August 1794	Mandeville, p. 92	Mandeville, Bernard	The fable of the bees: or, private vices, publick benefits.	1714	WG reads more than one volume (see 1794-09-11) of …
30 August 1794	Lucan, 182	Lucan	Bellum civile, or Pharsalia.	1631-33	composed 61-65 A.D. ten books; left unfinished at …
5 September 1794	K John, acts 1 and 2		The life and death of King John.	1623	Shakespeare, William FolioWG's sale catalog lists …
19 September 1794	Hume on evil, pp. 39	Hume, David	An enquiry concerning the principles of morals.	1751	‘Why utility pleases' (discussion of malice), chap…
19 September 1794	Hamlet, acts 1 & 2	Shakespeare, William	The tragicall historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke.	1603	: Ling and Trundell Quarto (first known edition, t…
20 September 1794	Christie, pp. 115	Christie, Thomas	Letters on the revolution of France, and on the new constitution established by the Na…	1791	Part 1 (i.e. vol. 1). Conjecture based on WG's int…
22 September 1794	Candide, p. 115	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Candide, ou l'Optimisme.	1759
23 September 1794	Macbeth, act 1	Shakespeare, William	The tragedy of Macbeth	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
24 September 1794	V. Lettres Phil., p. 27	Brissot de Warville, Jacques-Pierre (now attributed to)	Lettres philosophiques sur saint Paul, sur sa doctrine politique, morale et religieuse…	1783	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet (formerly attribut…
25 September 1794	Hartley, 29 pages	Hartley, David	Observations on man: his frame, his duty and his expectations, in two parts.	1749	WG's sale catalog lists: Hartley's (David) Observa…
25 September 1794	Voltaire, Romans, p. 71	Voltaire, François Marie Arouet	Recueil des Romans de M. de Voltaire, contenant Babouc, Memnon, Micromegas, Le Songe d…	1764
29 September 1794	Jenni, p. 34	Voltaire, François Marie Arouet	Histoire de Jenni, ou le Sage et l'Athée, par M. Sherloc. Traduit par M. de La Caille.	1775
1 October 1794	Goudman, pp. 34	Voltaire, François Marie Arouet	Les oreilles du comte de Chesterfield et le chapelain Goudman.	1765-1776	in Nouveaux mélanges philosophiques, historiques, …
8 October 1794	Treatise of Hum. Nature, p. 31	Hume, David	Treatise of Human Nature: being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of rea…	1739	. WG's sale catalog lists: Treatise of Human Natur…
4 December 1794	Read H's Defence, pp. 92	Holcroft, Thomas	A narrative of facts, relating to a prosecution for high treason, including the addres…	1795	WG probably read this in manuscript.
18 December 1794	Read Faucet's War	Maurice, comte de Saxe	Reveries, or, Memoirs upon the art of war. Trans. by Sir William Fawcett.	1757
28 December 1794	Read H's Letters	Holcroft, Thomas	A narrative of facts, relating to a prosecution for high treason, including the addres…	1795	WG probably read this in manuscript.
11 January 1795	Ht to Windham	Holcroft, Thomas	A letter to the Right Honourable William Windham on the intemperance and dangerous ten…	1795
14 January 1795	do Narrative, p. 78	Holcroft, Thomas	A narrative of facts, relating to a prosecution for high treason, including the addres…	1795
21 January 1795	Walker's Pamphlet, pp. 161	Walker, Thomas	A review of some of the political events which have occurred in Manchester, during the…	1794
21 January 1795	Thelwal's Poems, pp. 32	Thelwall, John	Poems written in close confinement in the tower and Newgate, under a charge of high tr…	1795
23 January 1795	King versus Paine	King, John	Mr. King's speech, at Egham, with Thomas Paine's letter to him on it, and Mr. King's r…	1793	OR The 10th edition of the above title. With the a…
10 February 1795	Lauderdale, p. 124	Maitland, James, earl of Lauderdale	Letters to the peers of Scotland.	1794
16 February 1795	Halhed, pp. 40	Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey	Testimony of the authenticity of the prophecies of Richard Brothers, and of his missio…	1795
16 February 1795	King on the Peace, p. 30	King, John	Thoughts on the difficulties and distresses in which the peace of 1783, has involved t…	1783
17 February 1795	Belsham's Geo. III, p. 40	Belsham, William	Memoirs of the reign of George III. to the session of Parliament ending A.D. 1793.	1795
26 February 1795	Schiller, p. 60-84	Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von	Die Räuber: ein Schauspiel.	1781	Translated as: Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedric…
4 March 1795	Brothers, ça & la	Brothers, Richard	A revealed knowledge of the prophecies and times. Book the first. Wrote under the dire…	1794	OR Brothers, Richard A revealed knowledge of the p…
13 March 1795	Life of Geo. Gordon, pp. 137	Holcroft, Thomas	Anecdotes of the life of Lord George Gordon.	1780
15 March 1795	Williams on Pol Liberty, p. 80	Williams, David	Letters on political liberty.	1782
20 March 1795	Henry, p. 200	Birch, Thomas	The life of Henry Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I. Compiled chiefly from h…	1760	WG's Diary shows that he reads 4 volumes.WG's sale…
27 March 1795	Live to Mend				Unable to identify.
2 April 1795	Trial of Gilham, pp. 113	Gillham, James	The trial of James Gillham, an attorney, for demanding and receiving of Lord Falkland,…	1795
4 April 1795	Paley on Contentment, pp. 22; Preface, pp. 33	Paley, William	Reasons for contentment: addressed to the labouring part of the British public.	1792	The Preface might be another item by Paley, such a…
9 April 1795	Virgil, Ecl. 1 & 2	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)			Eclogae (Eclogues)composed 42-37 B.C.
11 April 1795	H M W's Letters, p. 102	Williams, Helen Maria	Letters from France: containing a great variety of interesting and original informatio…	1793	WG could be reading either volume 3 or volume 4 of…
11 April 1795	New Ann. Reg. 1793, p. 39		The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature fo…	1794
20 April 1795	Secrecy, V. I & II	Fenwick, Eliza	Secresy; or, The ruin on the rock. By a woman…	1795	(3 volumes)
21 April 1795	Jo. Andrews, p. 40	Fielding, Henry	The history of the adventures of Joseph andrews, and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams: …	1742
23 April 1795	Gibbon on Virgil, pp. 56	Gibbon, Edward	Critical observations on the sixth book of the Aeneid.	1770
2 May 1795	Hermippus, p. 48	Cohausen, Johann Heinrich	Hermippus redivivus, sive Exercitatio physico-medica curiosa de methodo rara ad cxv an…	1742	Translated as: Anon. (Johann Heinrich Cohausen) Ca…
25 May 1795	Necromancer, passm	Rich, John	The vocal parts of an entertainment, called the Necromancer or Harlequin Doctor Faustu…	1723	OR Kahlert, Karl Friedrich (aka Lawrence Flammenbe…
26 May 1795	Deserted Daughter	Holcroft, Thomas	The deserted daughter, a comedy.	1795
4 June 1795	Planetes, p. 62	Northmore, Thomas	Memoirs of Planetes, or, A sketch of the laws and manners of Makar.	1795
5 June 1795	Holy Trio				Unable to identify.
6 June 1795	Sketches of Society, p. 50	Costigan, Arthur William	Sketches of society and manners in Portugal. In a series of letters from Arthur Willia…	1787	OR Thelwall, John The peripatetic; or, sketches of…
19 June 1795	Condorcet, 56 pp.	Condorcet, Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de	Reflexion d'un citoyen sur la revolution de 1788.	1788	OR Condorcet, Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, mar…
24 June 1795	Hume, V. 6, p. 480-535	Hume, David	The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688. …	1762	This was the first edition to collect all six volu…
26 June 1795	Watson on a Material World, p. 67				Unable to identify.
26 June 1795	Clarendon, Vol. III, p. 44	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, earl of	The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641: with t…	1702-4	OR Clarendon, Edward Hyde, earl of Scrope, Richard…
27 June 1795	Bol. to Windham, p. 30	Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, viscount	A letter to Sir William Windham. II. Some reflections on the present state of the nati…	1753
28 June 1795	Berkeley on Hum. Knowledge, p. 34	Berkeley, George, bishop of Cloyne	A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge. Part 1. Wherein the chief cau…	1710	WG's sale catalog lists: Berkeley's (Bp.) Principl…
28 June 1795	Life of Warburton, p. 70	Hurd, Richard	A discourse, by way of general preface to the quarto edition of Bishop Warburton's wor…	1794
1 July 1795	Dissertation on Parties, p. 46	Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, viscount	A dissertation upon parties: in several letters to Caleb D'Anvers, Esq.	1733-34
3 July 1795	Middleton's Misc, p. 109	Middleton, Conyers	The miscellaneous works of Conyers Middleton, D. D. Containing all his writings, except the Life of …	1752
3 July 1795	Mistake	Vanbrugh, Sir John	The mistake.	1706	Translation and adaptation of Molière's ‘Le dépit …
5 July 1795	Gesner's Isagoge, Pref, pp. 18	Gesner, Johann Matthias	Gesneri Primae Lineae in eruditionem universalem nominatim Philologiam, Historiam, et …	1760	2nd edition.
8 July 1795	Burke, Pt. V, pp. 32	Burke, Edmund	A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.	1757	OR Burke, Edmund An account of the European settle…
11 July 1795	Dumouriez on France, p. 60	Dumouriez, Charles François du Périer	Memoires du général Dumouriez écrits par lui-même.	1795	WG's Diary indicates that he read a 4-volume work.…
13 July 1795	Taming the Shrew, act 1, 2, 3	Shakespeare, William	The taming of the shrew.	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
18 July 1795	Moore on the Fr. Revolution, p. 52	Moore, John	A view of the causes and progress of the French revolution.	1795
21 July 1795	La Cite Roland, p. 131				Unable to identify.
24 July 1795	Sorcerer, pp. 210	Wächter, Leonard	The sorcerer: a tale. From the German of Veit Weber.	1795
24 July 1795	Barlow to the Piedmontese, pp. 48	Barlow, Joel	A letter, addressed to the people of Piedmont, on the advantages of the French Revolut…	1795
1 August 1795	Louvet's Narrative, pp. 239	Couvray, Jean-Baptiste Louvet de	Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May, 1793. Wi…	1795	Translated from: Couvray, Jean-Baptiste Luvet de Q…
3 August 1795	Paine's First Principles, p. 39	Paine, Thomas	Dissertation on the first principles of government.	1795	WG's sale catalog lists:Paine's (Tho.) Political W…
7 August 1795	Princesse de Babylone, p.69	Voltaire, François Marie Arouet	La princesse de Babilone.	1768
9 August 1795	Taureau Blanc, pp. 60	Voltaire, François Marie Arouet	Le Taureau blanc, traduit du syriaque par Dom Calmet.	1794
9 August 1795	Berenice, acts 1 & 2	Corneille, Thomas	Berenice: tragédie.	1659	WG's sale catalog lists: Corneille, Chef d'Oeuvres…
20 August 1795	Butler's Sermons, p. 42	Butler, Joseph	Fifteen Sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel upon the following subjects: upon humane …	1726	OR Butler, Joseph Six sermons preached upon public…
5 September 1795	N A R, 1794 p. 16		The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature, f…	1795
7 September 1795	Riouffe, pp. 80	Riouffe, Honoré	Mémoires du'un détenu, pour servir a l'histoire de la tyrannie de Robespierre.	1794
11 September 1795	Conflict, acts 1, 2, 3	Brand, Hannah	The conflict; or, love, honour, and pride	1798	in her Plays and poems. Unable to locate earlier p…
11 September 1795	Cooper, p. 4[8?]	Cooper, Thomas	Some information respecting America, collected by Thomas Cooper…	1794	Conjecture.
14 September 1795	Primitive Wife	Inchbald, Elizabeth	Wives as They Were, Maids as They Are	1797	‘The primitive wife and modern maid: a comedy in f…
15 September 1795	Letter to P. of W., pp. 82	Miles, William Augustus	A letter to the Prince of Wales, on a second application to parliament to discharge de…	1795
21 September 1795	Oroonoko	Behn, Aphra	Oroonoko, or, The royal slave.	1688	OR Southerne, Thomas Oroonoko, a tragedy. As it is…
22 September 1793	Parr v. Coombe, p. 30	Parr, Samuel	Remarks on the statement of Dr. Charles Combe. By an occasional writer in the British …	1795
3 October 1795	Tribune, ça & la	Thelwall, John	The Tribune: a periodical publication, consisting chiefly of the political lectures of…	1795-1796	The 3-volume collection of 1795-1796 contains Thel…
9 October 1795	Cymbeline	Shakespeare, William	Cymbeline, King of Britain.	1623	First FolioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
10 October 1795	Gregory's Imp History, p. 162	Anon. [George Gregory]	An history of the Christian Church from the earliest periods to the present time.	1790	Conjecture based on available titles.
13 October 1795	Sieyes, pp. 62	Sieyès, Emmanuel-Joseph, abbé	Aperçu d'une nouvelle organisation de la justice et de la Police en France. Par M. l'A…	1790
13 October 1795	Garat, p. 72	Garat, Dominique-Joseph, comte	Mémoires sur la révolution, ou Exposé de ma conduite dans les affaires et dans les fon…	1795
10 November 1795	Hume's Eliz, pp. 20	Hume, David	A history of England, under the House of Tudor: Comprehending the reigns of K. Henry V…	1759	Later published in: Hume, David The history of Eng…
11 December 1795	Caleb Williams, Vol. I; Vol. II, p. 36	Godwin, William	Things as they are; or, The adventures of Caleb Williams.	1794
21 December 1795	Prejugés à la Mode				Unable to identify.
29 December 1795	Calonne, p. 24	Calonne, Claude-François de	Essai d'agriculture, en forme d'entretiens: sur la nature & la progression des pepiniè…	1779	Conjecture that WG is reading the same title he re…
31 December 1795	Gunter Brown, pp. 128				Unable to identify.
7 January 1796	Thelwal's Preface	Moyle, Walter	Democracy Vindicated: an essay on the constitution and government of the Roman state, …	1796	Thelwall, John .
19 January 1796	Rabelais, p. 10	Rabelais, François	Les oeuvres de M. François Rabelais, docteur en medecine: Contenant cinq livres, de la…	1558	The five books were published separately between 1…
25 January 1796	Wolstencraft's Travels, p. 78	Wollstonecraft, Mary	Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.	1796
4 February 1796	Hartley à Priestley, p. 14	Hartley, David	Hartley's theory of the human mind, on the principle of the association of ideas, with…	1775	Priestley, Joseph WG's sale catalog lists:Hartley'…
5 February 1796	Mably sur les Romains, p. 16	Mably, Gabriel Bonnot, abbé de	Observations sur les Romains.	1751
8 February 1796	Twiss, pp. 172	Twiss, Richard	A trip to Paris in July and August, 1792.	1793
8 February 1796	Horsley to the Magdalens, pp. 20	Horsley, Samuel	The enjoyments of the future life, and the true notion of Christian purity, a sermon, …	1795
10 February 1796	Young's Travels, p. 8	Young, Arthur	Travels during the years 1787, 1788 and 1789 undertaken more particularly with a view …	1792
13 February 1796	Angelina, p. 60	Robinson, Mary	Angelina; a novel, in Three Volumes. By Mrs. Mary Robinson, Author of Poems, Vancenza,…	1796
15 February 1796	Yorke's Trial, p. 72	York, Henry Redhead;	The trial of Henry Yorke for a conspiracy, &c. before the Hon. Mr. Justice Rooke at th…	1795	Ramsey, William
16 February 1796	Groenvelt, p. 24	Groenvelt, Henry Frederic Groenvelt [pseudonym]	Letters: containing an account of the late revolution in France, and observations on t…	1792	Dumont, Etienne Romilly, Samuel (translator) Scarl…
21 February 1796	Morgan, pp. 45	Morgan, William	Facts addressed to the serious attention of the people of Great Britain respecting the…	1796
21 February 1796	Polignac, pp. 62	Polignac, Diane, comtesse de	Mémoires sur la vie et la caractere, de Mme. la duchesse de Polignac. Avec des anecdot…	1796
24 February 1796	Burke's Letter, pp. 80	Burke, Edmund	A letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a noble lord, on the attacks made u…	1796
2 March 1796	Life of Brissot, pp. 94	Brissot, Jacques-Pierre, de Warville	The life of J. P. Brissot, deputy from Eure and Loire, to the National Convention.	1794
3 March 1796	Hermsprong, Vol. I	Bage, Robert	Hermsprong, or Man as he is not. A novel.	1796
7 March 1796	O'Connor's Speech, pp. 32	O'Connor, Arthur	Speech of Arthur O'Connor, esq. in the House of Commons of Ireland, Monday, May 4th, 1…	1795
9 March 1796	Means to Prevent a Revolution, p. 34	O'Connor, Arthur	The measures of ministry to prevent a revolution, are the certain means of bringing it…	1794
9 March 1796	Hayes's MS	Hays, Mary	Memoirs of Emma Courtney. In two volumes.	1796	WG is reading Volume I of this novel in May 1796. …
19 March 1796	Moore, p. 93	Moore, John	A journal during a residence in France: From the beginning of August, to the middle of…	1793	ORMoore, John A view of the causes and progress of…
25 March 1796	Ami du Roi, &c	Touloubre Montjoie, Christophe Félix Louis Ventre de la	L'ami du roi, des Français, de l'ordre et sur-tout de la vérité.	1790-2
26 March 1796	Mounier, &c	Mounier, Jean-Jacques (aka Jean Joseph)	Adolphe, ou principes élémentaires de politiques et résultats de la plus cruelle des e…	1795	Quite possibly this author and one of the followin…
26 March 1796	Coleridge's Conciones, p. 34	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	Conciones ad populum.	1795
28 March 1796	Thelwal to Burke, p. 70	Thelwall, John	Sober reflections on the seditious and inflammatory letter of the Right Hon. Edmund Bu…	1796	OR Thelwall, John The rights of nature, against th…
30 March 1796	A A's Comedy			1796	Unable to identify.WG wrote to Amelia Alderson on …
1 April 1796	Qu'est-ce, p. 17	Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph, abbé	Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-Etat?	1789
6 April 1796	Stoddart, pp. 59				Unable to identify.
12 April 1796	Sicilian Lover	Robinson, Mary	The Sicilian lover, a tragedy in five acts.	1796
17 April 1796	R's Poems	Robinson, Mary	Poems by Mrs. Robinson. Volume the second.	1793	A new edition was printed in 1795.Conjecture based…
25 April 1796	Ami des Loix, actes 1 & 2	Laya, Jean Louis	L'ami des loix; comédie en cinq actes, en vers. Représentée par les comédiens de la na…	1793
27 April 1796	Gibbon's Memoirs, p. 98	Gibbon, Edward	Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With memoirs of his life and writings, …	1796	Sheffield, John Holroyd, earl of (editor)
28 April 1796	St Meard, pp. 61	Saint-Meard, François de Jourgniac	Mon agonie de trente-huit heures, ou, Récit de ce qui m'est arrivé, de ce que j'ai vu …	1792
29 April 1796	Hollis on Scepticism, pp. 37	Hollis, John	Sober and serious reasons for scepticism: as it concerns revealed religion, in a lette…	1796
1 May 1796	Watson v. Paine, p.68	Watson, Richard	An apology for the Bible in a series of letters, addressed to Thomas Paine, author of …	1796
2 May 1796	Victim of Mag. Delusion, Vol. I	Tschink, Cajetan	The victim of magical delusion: or, The mystery of the revolution of P—L: a magico-pol…	1795	Will, Peter (translator)
5 May 1796	Henrietta Courtney, Vol. I	Hays, Mary	Memoirs of Emma Courtney. In two volumes	1796	. It is likely that WG miswrote the title, since n…
12 May 1796	Paine on Finance, pp. 44	Paine, Thomas	The decline and fall of the English system of finance.	1796
14 May 1796	Louvet a Robe, pp. 55	Couvray, Jean-Baptiste Louvet de	À Maximilien Robespierre, et à ses royalistes	1792
16 May 1796	Hayley's Life of Milton, p. 30	Hayley, William	The poetical works of John Milton, with a life of the author by William Hayley.	1794-1797	Hayley's ‘Life…' appears in the first volume, issu…
19 May 1796	Ghost Seer, pp. 242	Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von	Der Geisterseher: eine interessante Geschichte aus den Papieren des Grafen von O****. …	1788	Translated as: Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedric…
20 May 1796	Defensio pro P. A., p. 3	Milton, John	Ioannis Miltoni angli Pro populo Anglicano defensio contra Clavdii anonymi, alias Salm…	1651	WG's sale catalog lists: Miltoni pro Populo Anglic…
20 May 1796	Samson Agonistes	Milton, John	Paradise regain'd, a poem in IV books: to which is added Samson Agonistes.	1671	WG's sale catalog lists: Paradise Regained, &c. fo…
20 May 1796	Paysan Parvenu, Pt I	Marivaux, Pierre de	Le Paysan parvenu, ou les Mémoires de M***.	1735
21 May 1796	Paradise Regained	Milton, John	Paradise regain'd: a poem in IV books: to which is added Samson Agonistes.	1671	WG's sale catalog lists: Paradise Regained, &c. fo…
31 May 1796	Tickel's Elegy	Tickell, Thomas	The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; …	1761	This edition is apparently the first to contain Ti…
31 May 1796	Pleasures of Memory, Pt I	Rogers, Samuel	The pleasures of memory, a poem in two parts.	1792
1 June 1796	Virg{in} Unmasked, p. 84	Fielding, Henry	An old man taught wisdom, or, The virgin unmask'd, a farce, as it is perform'd by His …	1735
2 June 1796	Wolstencraft's Comedy		Memoirs of the author of a Vindication of the rights of woman	1798	Unable to identify. In ( ), WG writes, ‘In January…
3 June 1796	Milton's Prose, çala	Milton, John	The works of Mr. John Milton.	1697	This title contains only the English prose works.W…
4 June 1796	Theodore Cyphon	Walker, George	Theodore Cyphon: or, The benevolent Jew. A novel in three volumes. By George Walker.	1796
9 June 1796	Ovid, Met. I, 415	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)	Metamorphoses.	1626	Composed 2 B.C.-8 A.D.WG's sale catalog lists:Ovid…
19 June 1796	The Modern Arria	Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian	The modern Arria; a tragedy in five acts. Translated from the German of F. M. Klinger.	1795
20 June 1796	Benincasa, p. 84	Benincasa, Bartholomew	Journal d'un voyage neutre, depuis son depart de Londres pour Paris, le 18 Nov., 1795,…	1796
23 June 1796	Dunlap's Archers	Dunlap, William	The archers, or, Mountaineers of Switzerland, an opera in three acts: to which is subj…	1796
25 June 1796	Pol. Justice, p. 95	Godwin, William	Enquiry concerning political justice and its influence on morals and happiness.	1796	This second edition of PJ actually appeared 26 Nov…
3 July 1796	Elegant Enthusiast, Vol. I	Beckford, William	Modern novel writing; or, The elegant enthusiast; and interesting emotions of Arabella…	1796
6 July 1796	Beddoes on < > Pitt, p. 52	Beddoes, Thomas	Essay on the public merits of Mr. Pitt.	1796
7 July 1796	Ireland, cl	Ireland, Samuel	Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakespe…	1796	OR Ireland, Samuel An investigation of Mr. Malone'…
7 July 1796	British Album, do	Topham, Edward	The British album, containing the poems of Della Crusca [Robert Merry], Anna Matilda […	1790	2nd edition The first edition was published under …
7 July 1796	Lexiphanes, p. 50	Campbell, Archibald	Lexiphanes: a dialogue; imitated from Lucian, and suited to the present times; with a …	1767
8 July 1796	Beddoes on Brown, p. 100	Brown, John	The elements of medicine of John Brown.	1795	Beddoes, Thomas (editor) Beddoes wrote a biographi…
12 July 1796	Roscoe, p. 66	Roscoe, William	The life of Lorenzo de' Medici called the Magnificent.	1795	WG reads at least two volumes of this work. No oth…
17 July 1796	Grammont, p. 72	Hamilton, Anthony, count	Memoirs of the life of Count de Grammont: containing, in particular, the amourous intr…	1714	Translated from:Hamilton, Antoine Mémoires de la v…
24 July 1796	Camilla, p. 20	Burney, Frances (Mrs. D'Arblay)	Camilla: or, A picture of youth.	1796
29 July 1796	Maiden Aunt, acts 1, 2, 3				Unable to locate a play by this title.
3 August 1796	Mary, p. 90	Wollstonecraft, Mary	Mary, A Fiction.	1788	WG's sale catalog lists:Mary, a Fiction 1788.
5 August 1796	Conspiration de d'Orleans, p. 143	Couvray, Jean-Baptiste Louvet de	A la Convention nationale, et a mes commettans, sur la conspiration du 10 mars et la f…	1793	OR Couvray, Jean-Baptiste Louvet de La verité sur …
8 August 1796	Iron Chest	Colman, George, the younger	The iron chest, a play in three acts.	1796
9 August 1796	La Reine Fantasque, pp. 32	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	La reine fantasque, conte cacouac par Mr. R. C. de G	1758	. impression clandestineOR Rousseau, Jean-Jacques …
16 August 1796	Fiesco, p. 70	Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von	Fiesco, or, The Genoese conspiracy: a tragedy.	1796	Noehden, Georg Heinrich (translator) Stoddart, Sir…
18 August 1796	Cousin de Mahomet, Vol. I	Fromaget, Nicolas	Le cousin de Mahomet.	1750
2 September 1796	Mogul Tale	Inchbald, Elizabeth	The mogul tale or, the descent of the balloon. A farce. As it is acted at the Theatre-…	1788
4 September 1796	Heautontimorumenos, act 1, 2/2	Terence	Heautontimorumenos. (The self-tormentor)		composed 166-160 B.C.
4 September 1796	Life of Parsons, pp. 76	Bellamy, Thomas	The life of Mr. William Parsons, comedian. Written by Thomas Bellamy. To which are add…	1795	698. Life of David, p. 58 1796-09-05 Ellwood, Thom…
8 September 1796	Terence, Adelphi, acts 1, 2	Terence	Adelphi.		(The brothers) composed 166-160 B.C.
13 September 1796	Terence, Phormio, act 1	Terence	Phormio.		composed 166-160 B.C.
20 September 1796	Terence, Hecyra, acts 1, 2, 3	Terence	Hecyra.		(The mother-in-law) composed 166-160 B.C.
24 September 1796	Monk, p. 114	Lewis, Matthew G.	The monk, a romance.	1796
29 September 1796	Conduite de la Genlis, p. 32	Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de	Précis de la conduite de Madame de Genlis depuis la révolution: Suivi d'une lettre à M…	1796
2 October 1796	Conjuration de Robespièrre, p. 66	Galart de Montjoie, ----	Histoire de la conjuration de Maximilien Robespierre.	1795
4 October 1796	Bryant on Troy, p. 80	Bryant, Jacob	A dissertation concerning the war of Troy, and the expedition of the Grecians, as desc…	1796	.
6 October 1796	Ruines, p. 33	Volney, Constantin François Chasseboeuf de	Les ruines, ou Méditation sur les révolutions des empires.	1707	Although there are several titles that begin ‘ruin…
9 October 1796	Shrine of Bertha, p. 155	Robinson, Mary Elizabeth	The shrine of Bertha; a novel, in a series of letters.	1794
14 October 1796	Edward, p. 200	Author unknown	Edward. A novel. In two volumes. Dedicated (by permission) to Her Majesty.	1774	OR Author unknown Edward and Sophia. A novel. In t…
17 October 1796	Confederacy, act 1	Vanbrugh, Sir John	The confederacy, a comedy; as it is acted at the Queen's theatre in the Haymarket; by …	1705	D' Ancourt, Florent Carton Englished version of d'…
18 October 1796	Boswel's Life of Johnson, p. 100	Boswell, James	The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numero…	1791	.
19 October 1796	Way of the World, acts 1 & 2	Congreve, William	The way of the world, a comedy. As it is acted at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields …	1700
20 October 1796	Regicide Peace, pp. 131	Burke, Edmund	Two letters addressed to a member of Parliament, on the proposals for peace with the r…	1796
24 October 1796	Love for Love, acts 1 & 2	Congreve, William	Love for love, a comedy. Acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields by His …	1695
6 November 1796	A A, act 1				Unable to identify.
10 November 1796	Avare, act 1	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	L'Avare: comédie, par I. B. P. Molière.	1669	; first performed 1668 WG's sale catalog lists: Mo…
25 November 1796	Marchmont, p. 70	Smith, Charlotte Turner	Marchmont: a novel.	1796
30 November 1796	Crusoe, p. 35	Defoe, Daniel	The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who l…	1719	.
30 November 1796	Locke, &c	Locke, John	Two treatises of government: In the former, the false principles and foundation of Sir…	1690	Conjecture based on WG's reference in The Enquirer…
3 December 1796	Lowth, &c.	Lowth, Robert	Short Introduction to English Grammar: with Critical notes.	1762	Conjecture based on WG's reference in The Enquirer…
5 December 1796	Hooker, &c	Hooker, Richard	Of the laws of ecclesiastical politie, eight bookes.	1594-1648	Spencer, John (editor) books i-viii 1661-2 books v…
13 December 1796	Cowley	Cowley, Abraham	The history of the Royal-Society of London	1647	Many possible works, but a poem by Abraham Cowley,…
13 December 1796	Temple	Temple, Sir William	Miscellanea. The third part. containing I. An essay on popular discontents. II. An ess…	1701	WG refers to the first essay in this third part of…
13 December 1796	Tillotson	Tillotson, John	Of sincerity towards God and man. Sermon the first. Preach'd at Kingston July 29, 1694…	1712	This sermon is published in The Works of the most …
13 December 1796	Sprat	Sprat, Thomas	The history of the Royal-Society of London, for the improving of natural knowledge.	1667
17 December 1796	Addison	Addison, Joseph	The Spectator.	1711-6	(3 March December 1712 and 18 June 1714-20 Decembe…
20 December 1796	Tom Jones	Fielding, Henry	The history of Tom Jones, a foundling.	1749
20 December 1796	Don Sebastian, acts 1, 2, 3	Dryden, John	Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, a tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royal.	1690
23 December 1796	Smollet	Smollett, Tobias			This item is the only mention of Smollett in this …
26 December 1796	Italian, p. 83	Radcliffe, Ann Ward	The Italian, or, The confessional of the black penitents. A romance	1797	. This item may have appeared in 1796 with 1797 pu…
29 December 1796	Ireland junr, pp. 43	Ireland, William Henry	Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakespe…	1796	The papers etc. in this collection are a ‘forgery'…
2 January 1797	Constant Couple	Farquhar, George	The constant couple, or, A trip to the Jubillee, a comedy, acted at the Theatre Royal …	1700
8 January 1797	Fawcet's Poems	Fawcett, Joesph	Poems, by Joseph Fawcett. To which are added Civilized war, before published under the…	1798
1 January 1797	De Sevrac, p. 184	Robinson, Mary	Hubert de Sevrac a romance, of the eighteenth century; by Mary Robinson, … In three vo…	1797-01-01	1796
12 January 1797	Wt v. Burke, p. 60	Wollstonecraft, Mary	A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; …	1790
15 January 1797	Iniquity of Bank, p. 33	Anderson, William	The iniquity of banking, or, Bank notes proved to be an injury to the public and the r…	1797
16 January 1797	Chalmers on Shakespear, p. 84	Chalmers, George	An apology for the believers in the Shakespeare-papers [forged by W. H. Ireland]: whic…	1797
21 January 1797	Wrongs of Woman, p. 56.	Wollstonecraft, Mary	The wrongs of woman	1798	Godwin, William (editor) in Memoirs and posthumous…
23 January 1797	Mandeville on Hyp, p. 32	Mandeville, Bernard	A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call'd the hypo in m…	1711
24 January 1797	Paine to Washington, pp. 76	Paine, Thomas	Letter to George Washington, president of the United States of America on affairs publ…	1796
24 January 1797	Ireland senr, pp. 48	Ireland, Samuel	Mr. Ireland's vindication of his conduct, respecting the publication of the supposed S…	1796	Identified among the various Ireland publications …
26 January 1797	Cibber's Apology, p. 89	Cibber, Colley	An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian, and late patentee of the Theat…	1740	WG's sale catalog lists:Cibber's (Coll.) Apology, …
6 February 1797	Old Clothes-man	Dibdin, Charles	The old cloaths man	1799	. (musical score)
7 February 1797	Fatal Dowry	Massinger, Philip Massinger	The fatal dowry: a tragedy.	1632	Field, Nathan
12 February 1797	Erskine's pamphlet, p. 26	Erskine, Thomas, baron	A view of the causes and consequences of the present war with France.	1797
13 February 1797	Burke versus Fox, pp. 94	Burke, Edmund	Two observations on the conduct of our domestick parties, with regard to French politi…	1797	.
15 February 1797	Les Cinq Hommes, p. 20	Despaze, Joseph	Les cinq hommes.	1796
17 February 1797	Fawcet's Elegies	Fawcett, Joseph	The art of war. A poem. By Joseph Fawcett. The second edition: to which is added, a wa…	1795	OR Fawcett, Joseph War elegies. 1798
21 February 1797	Ht's Comedy	Holcroft, Thomas	He's much to blame: a comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent …	1798	OR Holcroft, Thomas Knave, or not? a comedy in fiv…
4 March 1797	Vaurien, p. 96	Disraeli, Isaac	Vaurien; or, Sketches of the times: exhibiting views of the philosophies, religions, p…	1797
7 March 1797	Albernitz, Vol. I				Unable to identify.
14 March 1797	Paine's Agrarian, pp. 38	Paine, Thomas	Agrarian justice opposed to agrarian law and to agrarian monopoly, being a plan for me…	1797	Philadelphia; reprinted in London. ‘First publishe…
16 March 1797	Le Fataliste, p. 58	Diderot, Denis	Jacques le fataliste et son maître.	1796	(published posthumously)
25 March 1797	Religieuse, p. 86	Diderot, Denis	La religieuse.	1796	(published posthumously)
12 April 1797	Task, Bk I	Cowper, William	The task, a poem, in six books. To which are added, by the same author, An epistle to …	1785	OR Cowper, William Poems. 2 vols. 1782-1785 The se…
5 May 1797	Compere Matthieu, p. 38	Du Laurens, Henri-Joseph	Le compere Matthieu ou les bigarrures de l'esprit humain.	1772
3 June 1797	Canterbury Tales by Lee, p. { }	Lee, Harriet	Canterbury tales for the year 1797.	1797	Lee, Sophia, author of ‘The Chapter of Accidents'
7 June 1797	Hobbes's Human Nature, p. 14	Hobbes, Thomas	Humane nature: or, The fundamental elements of policie. Being a discoverie of the facu…	1650	WG's sale catalog lists:Hobbes' (T.) Moral and Pol…
10 June 1797	Life of Hobbes, pp. 20	Hobbes, Thomas	The life of Mr. Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury, written by himself in a Latine poem and no…	1680	(Translated from Thomas Hobbesii Malmesburiensis v…
11 June 1797	Leviathan, p. 14	Hobbes, Thomas	Leviathan; or, The matter, forme, and power of a common-wealth, ecclesiasticall and ci…	1651	WG's sale catalog lists:Hobbes' (T.) Moral and Pol…
11 June 1797	Logique par Condillac, p. 30	Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de	La logique; ou, Les premiers développements de l'art de penser, ouvrage élémentaire, q…	1780
11 June 1797	Bailly, sur les Sciences, p. 50	Bailly, Jean Sylvain Bailly	Lettres sur l'origine des sciences, et sur celle des peuples de l'Asie: Adressées à m.…	1777	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet
22 June 1797	Rulhière, p. 114	Rulhière, Claude Carloman de	Histoire, ou anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie en l'année, 1762. Par Mr. De Rulhiè…	1797	Translated as: Rulhière, Claude Carloman de The hi…
24 June 1797	Darwin's §. of Instincts, pp. 50	Darwin, Erasmus	Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life	1794	Darwin, Robert Waring Volume 1, section XVI ‘Of In…
25 June 1797	J Wallace, p. 77	Bage, Robert	James Wallace. A novel, by the author of Mount-Henneth, Barham-Downs, and The fair Syr…	1788
1 July 1797	Vaughan's Letters	Vaughan, Benjamin Vaughan (anonymous)	Letters, on the subject of the concert of princes, and the dismemberment of Poland and…	1793
3 July 1797	Idomenée, act 1	Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de	Idoménée, tragédie	1706	(par P. de Crébillon). WG's sale catalog lists:Cre…
8 July 1797	Fair Syrian, p. 200	Bage, Robert	The fair Syrian: a novel.	1787
9 July 1797	Hau Kiou Choaan, p. 36	Percy, Thomas (editor and translator)	Hau kiou choaan; or, The pleasing history.	1761	Wilkinson, James (translator)
10 July 1797	Phædrus, Fab. 1-12	Phaedrus	Phaedri Augusti liberti fabularum Aesopiarum		(The Aesopic Fables of Phaedrus the Freedman of Au…
13 July 1797	Cabal & Love	Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von	Kabale und Liebe	1781	in Die Räuber. Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genu…
26 July 1797	Azemia, p. 150	Beckford, William	Azema, a descriptive and sentimental novel; interspersed with pieces of poetry.	1797
29 July 1797	Ambitious Vengeance	Merry, Robert	Ambitious vengeance; a tragic-drama. In three acts	1788	in Poetry of the world vol. 1 pp. 113-164. also in…
30 July 1797	Werter, Vol. I	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	The sorrows of Werter: a German story.	1779	Graves, Richard (translation attributed to) Malthu…
3 August 1797	Metastasio, p. 15	Metastasio, Pietro	Poesie.	1716	NapoliOR Metastasio, Pietro Antonio Domenico Buona…
5 August 1797	Pains of Memory	Merry, Robert	The Pains of memory. A poem.	1796
7 August 1797	Gregory's Comparative View, p. 82	Gregory, John	A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world.	1765
7 August 1797	Rhadamiste, act 1	Crébillon, Claude-Proper Jolyot de	Rhadamiste et Zénobie, tragédie par M. de Crébillon.	1711	WG's sale catalog lists:Crebillon, ses Oeuvres, 2 …
13 August 1797	Pyrology, p. 60	Okely, William	Pyrology, or, the connexion between natural and moral philosophy: with a short disquis…	1797
14 August 1797	Pursuits of Literature, çl	Mathias, Thomas James	The pursuits of literature, or what you will: a satirical poem in dialogue. Part the f…	1794
17 August 1797	Bruce, p. XLVI				Unable to identify.
17 August 1797	Chaumière Indienne, p. 41	Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de	La chaumière indienne.	1791
14 September 1797	Barbauld on Devotion, p. 22	Barbauld, Anna Letitia	Devotional pieces, compiled from the Psalms and the Book of Job: to which are prefixed…	1775
15 September 1797	Purley, p. 50	Tooke, John Horne	Epea pteroenta. Or, the diversions of Purley. Part I. By John Horne Tooke.	1786	WG's sale catalog lists:[Tooke] Diversions of Purl…
23 September 1797	Wt's Letters	Wollstonecraft, Mary	Memoirs and posthumous works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.	1798	Godwin, William (editor) Letters in Contents of th…
5 October 1797	Original Stories, p. 54	Wollstonecraft, Mary	Original stories from real life: with conversations, calculated to regulate the affect…	1788
12 October 1797	Mergez	Author unknown	Relation de l'enlevement de Messieurs Semonville, Maret, Montgeroux, Mergez, Trasostri…	1793	Conjecture based on part of the title.
27 October 1797	I's Letters		Memoirs and posthumous works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.	1798	Probably Mary Wollstonecraft's letters to Gilbert …
31 October 1797	Cave of Fancy	Wollstonecraft, Mary	Extract of the cave of fancy	1798	Godwin, William (editor) in Memoirs and posthumous…
16 November 1797	Macaulay on Education, p. 50	Macaulay, Catharine	Letters on education, with observations on religious and metaphysical subjects. By Cat…	1790
21 November 1797	Peregrine Proteus, p. 64				Unable to identify.
23 November 1797	Victim of Prejudice, p. 56	Hays, Mary	The victim of prejudice. In two volumes.	1799	WG was reading this novel in manuscript.
2 December 1797	Rasselas, p. 88	Johnson, Samuel	The Prince of Abissinia. A tale. In two volumes.	1759	‘Rasselas' was not added to the title until a 1768…
3 December 1797	Johnson's Beauties, p. 44	Johnson, Samuel	The beauties of Johnson: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and m…	1781
4 December 1797	Paine to Erskine	Paine, Thomas	A letter to the Honourable Thomas Erskine on the prosecution of Thomas Williams, for p…	1797
5 December 1797	Wt on the Fr. Revolution, p. 82	Wollstonecraft, Mary	An historical and moral view of the origin and progress of the French Revolution and t…	1794	There was no subsequent volume.
6 December 1797	Burke's Letter to the Sheriffs of B, p. 38	Burke, Edmund	A letter from Edmund Burke, Esq; one of the representatives in Parliament for the city…	1777
7 December 1797	Bentham's Law of Escheat, pp. 158	Bentham, Jeremy	Supply without burthen, or, Escheat vice taxation: being a proposal for a saving in ta…	1795
8 December 1797	Vie de Pascal, p. 28	Perier, Gilberte	La vie de Monsieur Pascal.	1684
10 December 1797	Lyttleton's Letters, çl		Letters from a Persian in England, to his friend at Ispahan	1735	Lord George Lyttelton , 2nd ed. (earliest publicat…
12 December 1797	Connoisseur, p. 43	George Colman	The connoisseur	1754	Thornton, Bonnell . (no. 1 Jan. 31, ) – no. 140 (S…
16 December 1797	Cleomenes, acts 1 & 2	Dryden, John	Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. A tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal. Written …	1692	Southerne, Thomas (completed the fifth act of the …
18 December 1797	King Arthur	Dryden, John	King Arthur, or, the British worthy a dramatick opera: perform'd at the Queens Theatre…	1691	Purcell, Henry (composer)
18 December 1797	Fairy Queen, Canto I.	Spenser, Edmund	The faerie queene. Disposed into twelue books, fashioning XII. morall vertues.	1590	WG's sale catalog lists:Spenser's Faerie Queene, T…
19 December 1797	Love Triumphant, acts 1, 2, 3	Dryden, John	Love triumphant; or, Nature will prevail. A tragi-comedy. As it is acted at the Theatr…	1694
26 December 1797	Dangers of Indecision				Unable to identify.
26 December 1797	Theodosius	Lee, Nathaniel	Theodosius, or, the force of love. A tragedy, acted by Their Royal Highnesses servants…	1680	Purcell, Henry (composer)
28 December 1797	Lee's Brutus, act 1	Lee, Nathaniel	Lucius Junius Brutus, father of his country.	1681
1 January 1798	Burke's 3rd Letter, p. 34	Burke, Edmund	A third letter to a member of the present Parliament, on the proposals for peace with …	1797
1 January 1798	Rival Queens, acts 1, 2, 3	Lee, Nathaniel	The rival queens, or, The death of Alexander the Great. Acted at the Theatre Royal by …	1677
2 January 1798	Burke's Memorials, p. 40	Burke, Edmund	Three memorials on French affairs. Written in the years 1791, 1792 and 1793 (Hints for a memorial to…	1797
9 January 1798	M'Cormick, pp. 383	M'Cormick, Charles	Memoirs of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke.	1797
13 January 1798	Reynolds, p. 14	Reynolds, Joshua	Seven Discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the President.	1778	Possibly WG rereads this item read 7 May 1794.OR R…
16 January 1798	Paley's Evidences, p. 98	Paley, William	A view of the evidences of Christianity, in three parts.	1794
19 January 1798	Price on the Picturesque, p. 122	Price, Uvedale	An essay on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and the beautiful; and on th…	1794
19 January 1798	Massacre of Paris, acts 1, 2, 3	Lee, Nathaniel	The massacre of Paris: a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal by Their Majesti…	1690
21 January 1798	Bourgeoises à la Mode	D'Ancourt, Florent Carton	Les bourgeoises à la mode, comédie.	1693
24 January 1798	Benj. Benton, p. 36				Unable to identify.
2 February 1798	Castle Spectre	Lewis, Matthew G.	The castle spectre, a drama in five acts.	1798
8 February 1798	Knave or Not, p. 56	Holcroft, Thomas	Knave or Not? A comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. B…	1798
16 February 1798	Bowles's Sonnets	Bowles, William Lisle	Fourteen sonnets, elegiac and descriptive: written during a tour.	1789	This is the earliest of several editions, with var…
16 February 1798	D'Alembert, ça la	D'Alembert, Jean de Rond	Éloge de Monsieur de Montesquieu, a la suite duquel on trovera: L'analyse de l'esprit …	1756	Possibly WG rereads the preceding item, read on 7 …
11 March 1798	Errors of Innocence, p. 86	Lee, Harriet	The errors of innocence, in five volumes.	1786
13 March 1798	Rd Landaff, pp. 42	Watson, Richard	An address to the people of Great Britain.	1798	, 2nd edition
14 March 1798	Bn Constant, pp. 90	Constant, Benjamin, de Rebecque	Des Reactions Politiques.	1796	OR Constant, Benjamin De la force du gouvernement …
29 March 1798	Inquisitor	Holcroft, Thomas	The inquisitor, a play in five acts.	1798	Unzer, Johann Christoph
6 April 1798	Examination, pp. 60	Green, Thomas	An examination of the leading principles of the new system of morals.	1798	Conjecture based on subject and page match.
9 April 1798	Ana. Review	Christie, Thomas (until early 1796)	The Analytical review; or History of literature, domestic and foreign, on an enlarged …	1788-99
9 April 1798	Huron	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	L'Ingénu, histoire véritable tirée des manuscrits du père Quesnel.	1767	Second edition appeared in 1767 with the following…
11 April 1798	Watteville's Switzerland çl	Watteville, Alexandre-Louis de	Histoire de la Confederation helvetique.	1754
21 April 1798	E Oliver, p. 252; Vol. II, p. 102	Lloyd, Charles	Edmund Oliver.	1798
22 April 1798	Joan of Arc, Book I	Southey, Robert	Joan of Arc: an epic poem.	1796
29 April 1798	Robertson, çl	Robertson, William	The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI. till his…	1759	OR Robertson, William The history of the reign of …
3 May 1798	Julie, p. 76	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Julie: ou, la nouvelle Héloïse	1761	original edition titled Lettres de deux amans; Hab…
7 May 1798	Fabliaux, çl	Marie de France	Fabliaux ou contes, du XIIe et du XIIIe siecle, traduits ou extraits d'après divers ma…	1778	Legrand d'Aussy, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Legrand (edi…
8 May 1798	Stella	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Stella, ein Schauspiel für Liebende in fünf Akten.	1775	Translated as: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Stella,…
12 May 1798	Chrysal, p. 128-234	Johnstone, Charles	Chrysal; or The adventures of a guinea. Wherein are exhibited views of several strikin…	1760
13 May 1798	Donomar, p. 136	Bouterwek, Friedrich (anonymous)	Count Donamar or, errors of sensibility: a series of letters, written in the time of t…	1797	Translated from: Graf Donamar: Briefe, geschrieben…
16 May 1798	Ovid, Ep. 1	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)	Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from Pontus)		Composed 12-16 A.D.
18 May 1798	Yorke's pamphlet	Yorke, Henry Redhead	A letter to the reformers.	1798	OR Yorke, Henry Redhead On the means of saving our…
19 May 1798	Horrid Mysteries, Vol. I	Grosse, Carl, marquis	Horrid mysteries a story; from the German of the Marquis of Grosse.	1796	Will, P. (translator)
22 May 1798	Two Emilys, p. 350	Lee, Sophia	The two Emilys; a tale.	1798
25 May 1798	Armstrong	Armstrong, William	The shortness and uncertainty of human life.	1794	Unable to identify with certainty.Possibly the pre…
26 May 1798	Proby, pp. 80	Proby, William C.	Modern philosophy and barbarism; or, a comparison between the theory of Godwin, and th…	1798
20 June 1798	Cellini, p. 28	Cellini, Benvenuto	The life of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine artist. Containing a variety of curious an…	1771	Nugent, Thomas (translator) WG's sale catalog list…
24 June 1798	Young Philosopher, Vol. I	Smith, Charlotte Turner	The young philosopher: a novel.	1798
2 July 1798	Remedium, Lib. I	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)	Remedia amoris. (The remedy of love)		c. 1 B.C. – 2 A.D.
5 July 1798	Ovid, Ars < > Amandi, p. 6:	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)	Ars Amatoria		or Artis Amatoria.e (The art of love) c. 1 B.C.
6 July 1798	Shenstone, çl	Shenstone, William	The works in verse and prose of William Shenstone, Esq.: most of which were never befo…	1764	Conjecture that WG is reading in a volume of colle…
13 July 1798	Hume, Essays 15, 16, 17, 18, 23	Hume, David	Essays, moral and political.	1741	(originally anonymous) Essays, moral and political…
14 July 1798	Tristia, El. 1, 2, 3.	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)	Tristia		Composed 8-12 A.D.
15 July 1798	Paul & Virginie, p. 45	Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de	Paul et Virginie.	1788	Translated as: Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri Bernard…
19 July 1798	Zaïre, act 1	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Zayre, tragedie: Representée a Paris aux mois d'aoust, novembre & decembre 1732.	1733	WG's sale catalog lists:Voltaire, Theatre, Henriad…
19 July 1798	Alcuin, p. 77	Brockden Brown, Charles Brockden	Alcuin: a dialogue.	1798	Smith, E. H.
28 July 1798	Ovid, Amores, El. 1-8	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)	Amores		The preface to this work is dated c. 25 B.C.; the …
28 July 1798	Pinkerton's Enquiry	Pinkerton, John	An enquiry into the history of Scotland.	1789
3 August 1798	Fenwick, pp. 124	Fenwick, John	Observations on the trial of James Coigly, for high-treason: together with an account …	1798
4 August 1798	Derry, pp. 57				Unable to identify.
5 August 1798	Essay on Population, p. 248	Malthus, Thomas R.	An essay on population, as it affects the future improvement of society. With remarks …	1798	WG's sale catalog lists:Malthus's (T. R.) Essay on…
8 August 1798	Ovid, Fasti, p. 8	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)	Fasti		Completed c. 8 A.D.
9 August 1798	Bisset's Life of Burke, p. 266	Bisset, Robert	The life of Edmund Burke comprehending an impartial account of his literary and politi…	1798
10 August 1798	O'Connor, p. 32	O'Connor, Arthur	State of Ireland.	1798
18 August 1798	Rousseau on Lisbon, pp. 31	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Lettre de J. J. Rousseau à Monsieur de Voltaire, le 18. aout 1756.	1759	(On Voltaire's Poèmes sur le désastre, de Lisbonne…
20 August 1798	Monroe, pp. 76	Monroe, James	A view of the conduct of the executive, in the foreign affairs of the United States, c…	1797	Philadelphia; 1798 London: reprinted for J. Ridgwa…
20 August 1798	Talleyrand, &c				Unable to identify.
23 August 1798	Théâtre d'Education, p. 54	Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de	Théâtre pour servir a l'éducation.	1780	Translated as: Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité comtesse…
23 August 1798	Buffon, p. 52	Buffon, George Louis le Clerc, comte de	Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi.	1749-1767	WG's sale catalog lists: Buffon, Histoire Naturell…
1 September 1798	Cléry, p. 66	Cléry, Jean-Baptiste	Journal de ce qui s'est passe a la tour du temple pendant la captivite de Louis XVI, r…	1798	Translated as: Cléry, Jean-Baptiste A journal of o…
1 September 1798	Anti-Jacobin, çl	Gifford, William (editor)	The Anti-jacobin, or, weekly examiner.	1797-1798	(no. 1-36 Nov. 20, 1797 – July 9, 1798)A two-volum…
3 September 1798	Buffon, Cheval, p. 10	Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc	The natural history of the horse. To which is added that of the ass, bull, cow, ox, sh…	1762	This is a translation of selections from volume 4 …
5 September 1798	Erot., p. 154				Unable to identify.
7 September 1798	Irish Report	Ireland Parliament. House of Commons.	The report from the secret committee of the House of Commons with an appendix: printed…	1798	Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, viscount (On the Iris…
18 September 1798	Don Carlos, pp. 327	Otway, Thomas	Don Carlos Prince of Spain. A tragedy. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. Written by Tho. Ot…	1676	OR Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Dom Ka…
20 September 1798	Sandford, p. 230	Day, Thomas	The history of Sandford and Merton, a work intended for the use of children.	1783-1789	Conjecture.
20 September 1798	Delectus, p. 40	Wakefield, Gilbert	Tragoediarum delectus Hercules furens, Alcestis, Euripideae: et Trachineae, Sophoclea:…	1794
23 September 1798	Escarbagnas	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas, comèdie.	1684	; first performed 1672 WG's sale catalog lists:Mol…
25 September 1798	Warton on Pope, p. 100	Warton, Joseph	An essay on the writings and genius of Pope.	1756
28 September 1798	Précieuses Ridicules	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Les précieuses ridicules, comédie, représentée au Petit Bourbon.	1660	WG's sale catalog lists:Moliere, ses Oeuvres, 7 vo…
29 September 1798	Amphitryon, acte 1	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Amphitryon, comédie, par J.-B. P. de Molière.	1668	WG's sale catalog lists:Moliere, ses Oeuvres, 7 vo…
30 September 1798	Dryden's do, acts 1, 2, 3	Dryden, John	Amphitryon, or, the two Socias, a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal.	1690
1 October 1798	Robbers, p. 60	Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von	Die Räuber: ein Schauspiel.	1781	Translated as: Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedric…
6 October 1798	Vicar of Wakefield, p. 19	Goldsmith, Oliver	The vicar of Wakefield.	1757
9 October 1798	Savary sur l'Egypte, p. 202	Savary, Claude Etienne	Lettres sur l'Égypte, où l'on offre le parallèle des moeurs anciennes & modernes de se…	1785
10 October 1798	Gibbon, Vol. IX, p. 354-380	Gibbon, Edward	The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.	1776-88	WG's sale catalog lists:Gibbon's (Ed.) History of …
19 October 1798	Hoole's Orlando Abridged, Bk I, II	Ariosto, Lodovico	The Orlando of Ariosto, reduced to XXIV books; the narrative connected, and the storie…	1791	Hoole, John (translator)
3 November 1798	Merope, actes 1, 2, 3/2	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	La Mérope française, avec quelques petites pièces de literature.	1744
5 November 1798	Indians in England	Kotzebue, August von	The Indians in England.	1796	Wells, Henry W. (translator) Translated from: Kotz…
14 November 1798	May, p. 5	May, Thomas	The heir: a comedy.	1622	first publcation Later published in Select collect…
15 November 1798	Otway's Don Carlos, acts 1, 2, 3	Otway, Thomas	Don Carlos Prince of Spain. A tragedy. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. Written by Tho. Ot…	1676
18 November 1798	Biographia Dramatica	Baker, David Erskine	The companion to the play-house: or, An historical account of all the dramatic writers…	1764	The 2nd and 3rd editions were issued under ‘Biogra…
19 November 1798	Robison, p. 271		Proofs of a conspiracy against all the religions and governments of Europe, carried on…	1797	Robison, John
22 November 1798	Lucretius, 102	Lucretius	De rerum natura		(On the nature of things) Lucretius died 55-51 B.C…
24 November 1798	Clement Arnold, p. 32				Unable to identify.
30 November 1798	Barruel, p. 26	Barruel, Augustin, abbé	Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinisme	1797	. Volumess. 1-4. Conjecture based on topic and num…
7 December 1798	Beniowski	Kotzebue, August von	Count Benyowsky; or, The conspiracy of Kamtschatka. A tragi-comedy in five acts. Trans…	1798	Render, W. (translator) Translated from: Kotzebue,…
12 December 1798	Bajazet, actes 1, 2	Racine, Jean	Bajazet; tragédie.	1672	; first performed 1672
15 December 1798	Mithridate, actes, 1, 2	Racine, Jean	Mithridate.	1673	; first performed 1673?
19 December 1798	Iphigénie, acte 1	Racine, Jean	Iphigénie.	1675	; first performed 1674
22 December 1798	Elfrida	Mason, William	Elfrida. A dramatic poem.	1752	also published 1796 with the subtitle: written on …
23 December 1798	Caractacus	Mason, William	Caractacus. A dramatic poem. Written on the model of the ancient Greek tragedy. By the…	1759	also published in 1796
23 December 1798	Brantome, çala	Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de	Oeuvres du seigneur de Brantome.	1740	OR Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Mém…
25 December 1798	Sully, çala	Sully, Maximilien de Bethune, duc de	Mémoires des sages et royalles oeconomies d'estat, domestiques, politques et militaire…	1688
27 December 1798	Jardine, cala				Unable to identify.
29 December 1798	Hereford's Spain, çala	Hereford, Charles John Ann	The history of Spain, from the establishment of the colony of Gades by the Phoenicians…	1793
1 January 1799	Siege of Damascus	Hughes, John	The siege of Damascus: a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, b…	1720
2 January 1799	Irene	Johnson, Samuel	Irene: A Tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane	1749	. OR Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet Irène, tragéd…
5 January 1799	Tancred, acte 1	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Tancrede: tragédie, en vers croisés et en cinq actes: représentée par les comediens fr…	1761	WG's sale catalog lists a later collection of Volt…
9 January 1799	Orphelin de la Chine, actes 1, 2	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	L'Orphelin de la Chine, tragédie représentée pour la première fois à Paris, le 20 août…	1755	WG's sale catalog lists a later collection of Volt…
15 January 1799	Swinburne, çala	Swinburne, Henry ( 1743)	Travels in the two Sicilies by Henry Swinburne, Esq. in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, an…	1780-1786	Dublin 1783-1785 LondonOR Swinburne, Henry ( 1743-…
20 January 1799	Rome Sauvée, acte 1	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Rome Sauvée, tragédie de M. de Voltaire. Représentée pour la prèmiere fois à Paris, pa…	1752	BerlinBut the first edition given by Voltaire is: …
22 January 1799	Vagabond, Vol. I	Walker, George	The vagabond, a novel, in two volumes.	1799
23 January 1799	Oberon, 9 cantos	Wieland, Christoph Martin	Oberon, a poem.	1798	Sotheby, William (translator) translated from: Wie…
25 January 1799	Oreste	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Oreste: tragédie.	1750	WG's sale catalog lists a later collection of Volt…
27 January 1799	Mackintosh's Discourse, pp. 66	Mackintosh, James	A discourse on the study of the law of nature and nations.	1799	WG's sale catalog lists:Mackintosh's (Sir J.) Defe…
31 January 1799	Townsend, çala	Townsend, Horatio	The expediency of a union between Great Britain and Ireland.	1799	Insufficient information to identify positively. I…
1 February 1799	Alzire, actes 1, 2	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Alzire ou les Americains. Tragédie de M. de Voltaire. Representée pour la première foi…	1736	WG's sale catalog lists:Voltaire, Theatre, Henriad…
3 February 1799	Man of Quality, çala	Lee, John	The man of quality, a farce. Taken from the comedy of The relapse, by Mr. Lee. And act…	1773	(Adapted from Sir John Vanbrugh's The relapse.) OR…
6 February 1799	Piratical States, p. 132	Laugier de Tassy, ---- (attributed to)	A compleat history of the piratical states of Barbary, viz. Algiers, Tripoli and Moroc…	1750	Morgan, Joseph? (translator)
11 February 1799	Knights of Malta, çala	Vertot, René Aubert de Vertot, abbé de	The history of the knights of Malta. By Mons. l'Abbé de Vertot. Illustrated with LXXI.…	1728
23 February 1799	Pere de Famille, acte, 1, 2/2	Diderot, Denis	Le père de famille: comédie en cinq actes, et en prose, avec un discours sur la poèsie…	1758
24 February 1799	Pope's Eloisa	Pope, Alexander	Eloisa to Abelard	1717	in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. WG's sale cata…
28 February 1799	Esther, actes 1 & 2	Racine, Jean	Esther: tragédie. Tirée de L'Escriture Sainte.	1689
3 March 1799	Theodore & Cinyras	Dryden, John	Metamorphoses	1700	‘Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace' and ‘Cinyras …
4 March 1799	Palamon & Arcite	Dryden, John	Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & …	1700	‘Palamon and Arcite: or The Knight's Tale From Cha…
6 March 1799	Atrée, actes 1 & 2	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Les Pélopides, ou, Atrée et Thieste: tragédie.	1772	It first appeared in vol. 3 of Theatre complet de …
6 March 1799	Le Bon Menage	Florian	Le bon ménage, ou la suite des deux billets. Comédie en un acte et en prose. Représent…	1783
7 March 1799	Minister				Unable to identify.
9 March 1799	Dépit Amoureux	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Dépit amoureux: comedie de I. B. P. Moliere: representée sur le Theatre du Palais Roya…	1663
12 March 1799	Alexandre, acte 1	Racine, Jean	Alexandre le Grand.	1666
16 March 1799	St Julien, p. 87	St Julien, ----, baron de	Copie d'une lettre à M. le baron de St. Julien, chambellan du roi de Prusse, à Berlin.	1799	Conjecture based on available titles.
18 March 1799	Les Voleurs, actes 1 & 2	Saint Aubin, Nicolas Cammaille	Marguerite; ou, les voleurs; drama, en un acte, nêlé de pantomime, combats, etc.	1798
20 March 1799	Thucydide, p. 72	Auger, Athanase, abbé (editor and translator)	Harangues tirés d'Hérodote, de Thucydide des histoire grecques de Xénophon, de sa retr…	1788	OR Thucydides Levesque, Pierre-Charles (translator…
22 March 1799	Rymer on Tragedy, çala	Rymer, Thomas	The tragedies of the last age, consider'd and examin'd by the practice of the ancients…	1678	WG's sale catalog lists:Rymer's (T.) Tragedies of …
23 March 1799	King & No King	Beaumont, Francis	A king and no king. Acted at the Globe.	1619	Fletcher, John
25 March 1799	Maid's Tragedy, acts 1 & 2	Beaumont, Francis	The maides tragedy. As it hath been diuers times acted at the Blacke-friars by the Kin…	1619	Fletcher, John
26 March 1799	Philaster	Beaumont, Francis	Phylaster, or Loue lyes a bleeding.	1620	Fletcher, John
27 March 1799	Rodogune, actes 1 & 2	Corneille, Pierre	Rodogune, princesse des Parthes: tragédie.	1647	WG's sale catalog lists:Corneille, Chef d'Oeuvres,…
27 March 1799	Rollo, acts 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	The tragedy of Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The bloody brother.	1639	Jonson, Ben Massinger, Philip
28 March 1799	All for Love, acts 1, 2, 3	Dryden, John	All for love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal.…	1678	Wells, Henry W. WG's sale catalog lists a later ed…
30 March 1799	Committee of Secrecy, pp. 87	Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Secrecy	Report of the committee of secrecy of the House of Commons. Ordered to be printed 15 M…	1799	The Report ‘ordered to be printed 15 March, 1799' …
31 March 1799	Valentinian	Beaumont, Francis	A tragedy of Valentinian	1647	Fletcher, John in Comedies and tragedies, the firs…
31 March 1799	False One, acts 1, 2	Fletcher, John Fletcher	The false one	1647	Massinger, Philip in Comedies and tragedies, the f…
2 April 1799	Double Marriage	Beaumont, Francis	The double marriage	1647	Fletcher, John in Comedies and tragedies, the firs…
3 April 1799	Knight of Malta, acts 1 & 2	Beaumont, Francis	The knight of Malta.	1647	Fletcher, John in Comedies and tragedies, the firs…
6 April 1799	Wife for a Month	Fletcher, John	A wife for a moneth	1647	in Comedies and tragedies, the first folio of Fran…
6 April 1799	Laws of Candy	Ford, John	The lawes of Candy	1647	in Comedies and tragedies, the first folio of Fran…
9 April 1799	Virgin of the Sun	Kotzebue, August von	The virgin of the sun. A play in five acts. By Augustus von Kotzebue. Translated from …	1799	Translated from: Kotzebue, August von Die Sonnen-J…
10 April 1799	Noble Kinsmen, acts 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	The two noble kinsmen: presented at the Blackfriers by the Kings Maiesties servants, w…	1634	Shakespeare, William Quarto of Shakespeare
11 April 1799	Lyrical Ballads, çala	Wordsworth, William	Lyrical ballads, with a few other poems.	1798	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (originally anonymous) WG…
18 April 1799	Thierry, act 1	Fletcher, John	The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and his Brother Theodoret.	1621	Massinger, Philip Beaumont, Francis and others As …
19 April 1799	Almanzor, act 1	Dryden, John	Almanzor and Almahide, or, The conquest of Granada. The second part. As it is acted at…	1672	WG's sale catalog lists a later edition of Dryden'…
20 April 1799	Nice Valour, act 1	Fletcher, John?	The nice valour, or, The passionate mad man	1647	Middleton, Thomas in Comedies and tragedies, the f…
21 April 1799	Mitford, p. 98	Mitford, William	The history of Greece.	1795-1797	3rd edition, 6 volumesSince WG reads 6 volumes of …
22 April 1799	Chandler on the Inquisition, çala	Chandler, Samuel (translator; introduction)	The history of the Inquisition by Philip à Limborch … Translated into English by Samue…	1731	ORWilliam Berriman wrote a criticism of Chandler's…
22 April 1799	Hollis, pp. 62	Hollis, John	An apology for the disbelief of revealed religion: being a sequel to Sober and serious…	1799
28 April 1799	1/2 Spanish Friar	Dryden, John	The Spanish fryar or, The double discovery. Acted at the Dukes Theatre.	1681	WG's sale catalog lists a later edition of Dryden'…
30 April 1799	Troilus	Dryden, John		1679	Troilus and Cressida, or, Truth found too late: a …
2 May 1799	Aurengzebe, act 1	Dryden, John	Aureng-Zebe: A tragedy. Acted at the Royal Theatre.	1676	WG's sale catalog lists a later edition of Dryden'…
3 May 1799	Rival Ladies, acts 1 & 2	Dryden, John	The rival ladies. A tragi-comedy. As it was acted at the Theater Royal.	1664	WG's sale catalog lists a later edition of Dryden'…
4 May 1799	Bayle, çala	Bayle, Pierre	Pensées diverses, écrits á un docteur de Sorbonne, a l'occasion de la cométe qui parut…	1683	Conjecture based on WG's reading this text 1793-12…
7 May 1799	La Motte le Vayer, çala	du Boulay, N.	Histoire du droit public ecclesiastique françois, ou l'on traite de sa nature, de son …	1740	Argenson, Rene-Louis de Vayer, marquis d' (suppose…
11 May 1799	Read E Canning	Dodd, James Solas	A physical account of the case of Elizabeth Canning: with an enquiry into the probabil…	1753	Bound with John Hill's The story of Elizabeth Cann…
11 May 1799	M Blandy	Author unknown	The tryal of Mary Blandy, spinster, for the murder of her father, Francis Blandy, Gent…	1752	th of February, 1752: before the Honourable Heneag…
12 May 1799	Bladon's Trials for A. Vol. 7, çala	Bladon, Samuel (compiler)	Trials for adultery, or, The history of divorces: being selected trials at Doctors Com…	1779-1780
13 May 1799	Baltimore, G M				Unable to identify.
15 May 1799	Maximin, acts 1 & 2	Corneille, Thomas	Maximian, tragédie.	1662	WG's sale catalog lists:Corneille, Chef d'Oeuvres,…
17 May 1799	Maiden Queen	Dryden, John	Secret-love, or the Maiden-queen. As it is acted by His Majesties servants, at the	1668	Theater Royal. WG's sale catalog lists a later edi…
18 May 1799	Vita Devi, p. 24				Unable to identify.
18 May 1799	Tempest, Dryden, acts 1, 2, 3	Dryden, John	The tempest, or, The enchanted island. A comedy. As it is now acted at his Highness th…	1770	Shakespeare, William D'Avenant, William WG's sale …
30 May 1799	Canterbury Tales, Vol. III, p. 358	Lee, Harriet	Canterbury tales for the year 1799.	1799	Lee, Sophia Volume I: Canterbury tales for the yea…
4 June 1799	Buffon, le Chien, pp. 26	Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de	Histoire naturelle générale et particulière. (Théorie de la terre; histoire naturelle …	1749-1767	Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie , 15 volumes.
6 June 1799	Massaniello, pp. 210	D'Urfey, Thomas	The famous history of the rise and fall of Massaniello in two parts.	1669-1700	(2 volumes)
6 June 1799	Heraclius, acte 1	Corneille, Pierre	Héraclius, empereur d'Orient, tragédie.	1647	WG's sale catalog lists (#153):Corneille, Chev d'O…
17 June 1799	Tale of the Times, p. 135	West, Mrs.	A tale of the times. By the author of A gossip's story. … In three volumes.	1799
4 July 1799	Limborch, çala	Limborch, Philippus van	The history of the inquisition by Philip à Limborch … Translated into English by Samue…	1731	Chandler, Samuel (translator)
6 July 1799	Glanville, çala	Glanville, John Glanville	Reports of certain cases, determined and adjudged by the Commons in Parliament, in the…	1775	OR Glanville, Ranulf de Glanville Rayner, John, ba…
11 July 1799	Life of Bonnel, p. 34	Hamilton, William	The exemplary life and character of James Bonnell, Esq; late Accomptant General of Ire…	1703	Wettenhall, Edward
12 July 1799	Behemoth, çala	Hobbes, Thomas	Behemoth; or An epitome of the Civil Wars of England, from 1640, to 1660. …	1679	Note a subsequent edition: Hobbes, Thomas Behemoth…
23 July 1799	Biog. Dict., çala	Authors not named	The biographical dictionary; or, Complete historic library. Containing the lives of th…	1780	‘A work replete with instruction and entertainment…
26 July 1799	Watson's Philip II, çala	Watson, Robert	The history of the reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain.	1777
3 August 1799	Bethlem Gabor, çala		The last neuues, containing the arriual of Bethlem Gabor…	1622-1624	There are numerous (brief) news reports from , but…
7 August 1799	Thuanus, Lib. IX, cap. 1, 2, 3, 4	de Thou (or Thuanus), Jacques-Auguste	Historiarum sui temporis libri cont. Lib. I-XVIII.	1604
8 August 1799	Busching	Busching, Anton Friedrich	A new system of geography … by A. F. Busching.	1762	WG's sale catalog lists:Busching's (A.F. New Syste…
8 August 1799	Townson	Townson, Robert	Voyage en Hongrie: précédé d'une description de la ville de Vienne et des jardins impé…	1798	Mandar, Théophile (editor) (3 volumes) Insufficien…
10 August 1799	Revolutions de Hongrie, p. 130	Brenner, Domokos, abbé	Histoire des révolutions de Hongrie, où l'on donne une idée juste de son légitime gouv…	1739	Marchand, Prosper (editor) Frenc, Rákóczy, Prince …
11 August 1799	Cleland, Vol. I	Cleland, John	Memoirs of a woman of pleasure.	1749	(2 volumes) Later ( 1750) published as ‘Fanny Hill…
13 August 1799	Life of Pole, p. 48	Phillips, Thomas	The history of the life of Reginald Pole.	1764	WG's sale catalog lists:Pole: —History of the Life…
14 August 1799	Bolingbroke, &c	Bolingbroke, Henry Saint-John	The philosophical works of … Henry St. John, Lord viscount Bolingbroke. In 5 volumes.	1754	OR Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, viscount A dissert…
15 August 1799	Pope's Letters, çala	Pope, Alexander	The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in nine volumes complete; with his last corrections,…	1751	Warburton, William (editor) Vol. 7 Being the first…
17 August 1799	Evelina, p. 188	Burney, Frances (Mrs. d'Arblay) (published anonymously)	Evelina; or a young lady's entrance into the world. In two volumes.	1779
31 August 1799	Life of Elwes, pp. 53	Topham, Edward	The life of the late John Elwes, Esquire, member in three successive Parliaments for B…	1790
11 September 1799	Arnot's Manuscripts				Unable to identify.
15 September 1799	Arnot's Journal				Unable to identify.
23 September 1799	Promos & Cassandra, Part I	Whetstone, George	Promos and Cassandra	1578	(first printed ) in Six old plays on which Shakesp…
26 September 1799	K. John, Part I	Peele, George ?	The troublesome reign of King John, pts. I and II	1591	(first printed ) in Six old plays on which Shakesp…
28 September 1799	Windsor Forest	Pope, Alexander	Windsor Forest.	1713	WG's sale catalog lists:Pope's (Alex.) Works, with…
28 September 1799	K John, Part II	Peele, George ?	The troublesome reign of King John, pts. I and II	1591	(first printed ) in Six old plays on which Shakesp…
29 September 1799	K Leir	Author unknown	The true chronicle history of King Leir	1605	(first printed ) in Six old plays on which Shakesp…
29 September 1799	Bruce, Senaar				Unable to identify.
3 October 1799	1/2 Taming a Shrew	Author unknown	The taming of a shrew	1779	in Six old plays on which Shakespeare founded his …
2 October 1799	Dunciad, Books I, II, III	Pope, Alexander	The Dunciad.	1728	; 1729 as The Dunciad Variorum. WG's sale catalog …
5 October 1799	Gammer Gurton	Anonymous	A ryght pithy, pleasaunt and merie comedie intytuled Gammer Gurtons nedle: played on s…	1575	Stevenson, William Stevenson (sometimes attributed…
5 October 1799	King Cambyses	Settle, Elkanah	Cambyses, King of Persia: a tragedy. Acted by His Highness the Duke of York's servants…	1671
8 October 1799	Hieronymo, acts 1 & 2	Kyd, Thomas	The Spanish tragedy; or Hieronimo is mad again	1599	(orignally published ) in The origin of English dr…
10 October 1799	Titus Andronicus	Shakespeare, William	The most lamentable roman tragedy of Titus Andronicus.	1594	First Quarto
10 October 1799	Soliman & Perseda, act 1	Kyd, Thomas (published anonymously; sometimes attributed to)	The tragedye of Solyman and Perseda. Wherein is laide open, loues constancy, fortunes …	1592	(originally published ) in The origin of English d…
12 October 1799	David & Bathsheba, p. 18	Peele, George	David and Bethsabe	1773	in The origin of English drama: with explanatory n…
14 October 1799	Mountain Cottager, p. 241	Spiess, Christian Heinrich	Der Mäusefallen und Hechelkrämer: eine Geschichte sehr wunderbar und doch ganz natürli…	1792	OR Spiess, Christian Heinrich The mountain cottage…
14 October 1799	Wolfgang, p. 295, fin.				Unable to identify.
16 October 1799	Pericles, acts 1, 2	Shakespeare, William	Pericles, Prince of Tyre.	1609	Wilkins, George First Quarto
19 October 1799	Hanna More, p. 61	More, Hannah	Strictures on the modern system of female education. With a view to the principles and…	1799	OR More, Hannah Sacred dramas, chiefly intended fo…
21 October 1799	Dewar's MS, pp. 85				Unable to identify.
21 October 1799	Amelia, p. 20	Fielding, Henry	Amelia.	1752	(for 1751)
21 October 1799	Wolcot's Nil Admirari	Pindar, Pindar (John Wolcot)	Nil admirari; or, a smile at a bishop, occasioned by an hyperbolical eulogy on Miss Ha…	1799
3 November 1799	Pamela, p. 16	Richardson, Samuel	Pamela: or, Virtue rewarded. In a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young da…	1740
7 November 1799	Semple, p. 27	Semple, George	A treatise on building in water. In two parts. Part I. Particularly relative to the re…	1776	OR Semple, George Hibernia's free trade: or, a pla…
19 November 1799	O'Connor to Castlereagh, p. 22	O'Connor, Arthur	Arthur O'Connor's letter to Lord Castlereagh	1799	(dated January 4, ) 1799
13 December 1799	Princess of Cleve, acts 1, 2, 3	Lee, Nathaniel	The Princess of Cleve, as it was acted at the Queens Theatre in Dorset-Garden. By Nat.…	1689
19 December 1799	Duke of Guise, act 1	Dryden, John	The Duke of Guise. A tragedy acted by Their Majesties servants.	1683	Lee, Nathaniel WG's sale catalog lists a later edi…
25 December 1799	Public Characters, Vol. II, çala	Stephens, Alexander	Public characters.	1798-1810	Appeared annually. The first volume, for 1798, has…
29 December 1799	Vindication of the D. of G., pp. 62	Dryden, John	The vindication: or The parallel of the French Holy-League and the English League and …	1683	WG's sale catalog lists a later edition of Dryden'…
31 December 1799	Oedipus, acts 1 & 2	Dryden, John	Oedipus: a tragedy. As it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre.	1679	Lee, Nathaniel WG's sale catalog lists a later edi…
2 January 1800	Nero, act 1 & 2	Lee, Nathaniel	Tragedy of Nero, emperour of Rome. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesti…	1675
4 January 1800	Osorio, acts 1, 2, 3	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor		1797	‘Osorio.' manuscript
5 January 1800	Sophonisba, act 1	Lee, Nathaniel	Sophonisba, or Hannibal's overthrow. A tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royall, by Their …	1676
7 January 1800	Gloriana, acts 1 & 2	Lee, Nathaniel	Gloriana: or, The court of Augustus Caesar. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by Their Majes…	1676
9 January 1800	Mithridates, acts 1 & 2	Lee, Nathaniel	Mithridates King of Pontus, a tragedy: Acted at the Theatre Royal, by Their Majestie's…	1678
9 January 1800	Necrology, çala	Author unknown	Necrology: being memoirs of the lives of eminent and extraordinary characters, includi…	1800	(also known as The annual necrology, including, al…
11 January 1800	Cæsar Borgia, acts 1 & 2	Lee, Nathaniel	Cæesar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI. A tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre, by His…	1680
11 January 1800	St Leon, Vol. I	Godwin, William	St. Leon: a tale of the sixteenth century. By William Godwin.	1799
16 January 1800	Constantine, acts 1 & 2	Lee, Nathaniel	Constantine the Great, a tragedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by Their Majesties serva…	1684
17 January 1800	Read Antonio, acts 1 & 2	Godwin, William	Antonio, a tragedy in five acts. By William Godwin.	1800	WG was reading this in manuscript on 1800-01-17.
17 January 1800	Robert Mortimer, p. 30	Harley, Robert, Earl of Oxford	The tryal of Robert, earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. Upon the impeachment of the Hou…	1717	th Day of June 1717, and from thence continued, by…
17 January 1800	St Godwin, pp. 235	Du Bois, Edward	St. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century. By Count Reg…	1800
25 January 1800	Troilus, act 3	Dryden, John	Troilus and Cressida, or, Truth found too late: a tragedy. As it is acted at the Dukes…	1679	OR Shakespeare, William The history of Troylus and…
3 February 1800	St Leon, 2nd Edition	Godwin, William	St. Leon, a tale of the sixteenth century.	1800	2nd edition
5 February 1800	Polyeucte, acts 1, 2/2	Corneille, Pierre	Polyeucte martyre: tragédie.	1648	WG's sale catalog lists: Corneille, Chef d'Oeuvres…
7 February 1800	Ventidius	Ventidius, Tamberlani	Ventidii Tamerlanis iuris dialogus ad L. In quartam FF. ad L. Falcidiam.	1582	Conjecture: this seems the only available work of …
7 February 1800	Duke & No Duke	Tate, Nahum	A duke and no duke: a farce, as it is acted by Their Majesties servants.	1685
9 February 1800	Rosamund Gray, pp. 136	Lamb, Charles	A tale of Rosamund Gray and old blind Margaret. By Charles Lamb.	1798
17 February 1800	Semiramide, acts 1 & 2	Metastasio, Pietro	Semiramide riconosciuto, dramma per musica di P. Metastasio …	1729	OR in a collection of Metastasio's works, such as:…
22 February 1800	Salzmann, p. 68	Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf	Elements of morality, for the use of children; with an introductory address to parents…	1790	Wollstonecraft, Mary (translator)
22 February 1800	La Roche, pp. 14	Mackenzie, Henry	The story of La Roche. From the Mirror.	1793	Conjecture based on page numbers: WG reads 14 page…
22 February 1800	Ruth	Haweis, Thomas	Ruth: A sacred oratorio.	1763	OR Brooke, Henry Ruth: An oratorio. 1778 Unable to…
24 February 1800	Bonaparte, Part III, p. 52	Bonaparte, Napoleon, et al.	Copies of original letters from the French army in Egypt. Part the third, consisting o…	1800
6 March 1800	Mordaunt, p. 266	Moore, John	Mordaunt. Sketches of life, characters, and manners, in various countries; including t…	1800
8 March 1800	Hall on Infidelity, pp. 83	Hall, Robert	Modern infidelity considered with respect to its influence on society, in a sermon, pr…	1800
10 March 1800	Lloyd to the Anti-Jacs, pp. 38	Lloyd, Charles	A letter to the anti-Jacobin reviewers. By Charles Lloyd.	1799
12 March 1800	Holy Dying, p. 36	Taylor, Jeremy	The rule and exercises of holy dying … Together, with prayers and acts of vertue to be…	1651	WG's sale catalog lists:Taylor's (Jeremy) Rule and…
19 March 1800	Claudian, Prob., 204	Claudianus, Claudius	Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus (Panegyric on the consuls Probinus an…	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) exact date unknownWG's sale cat…
20 March 1800	Conversion of Pedro – IGNORE – NO ACTION REQUIRED. THIS IS A WRITING EVENT - DOS				Unable to identify.
20 March 1800	Pride's Cure	Lamb, Charles	John Woodvil, a tragedy	1802	‘Pride's Cure.' Published under the title of . WG …
21 March 1800	Claudian, Ruf. I, 116	Claudianus, Claudius	In Rufinam (Against Rufinus)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) A.D. 395-397WG's sale catalog l…
25 March 1800	Corancez, pp. 104	Corancez, Louis Alexandre Olivier de	Anecdotes of the last twelve years of the life of J. J. Rousseau. By Citizen Corancez …	1798	Conjecture based on exact page match and WG's ongo…
28 March 1800	Claudian, III Hon.	Claudianus, Claudius	Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti (Panegyric on the third consulship of …	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) A.D. 396WG's sale catalog lists…
1 April 1800	L'Adieu François				Unable to identify.
4 April 1800	Letters from Lausanne, Vol. II, p. 32-106	Charrière, Isabelle de	Caliste, ou, Suite des lettres écrites de Lausanne. 2. partie.	1788
5 April 1800	Claudian, Epithal., 160	Claudianus, Claudius	Epithalamium Palladio et Celerinae (Epithalamium to Palladius and Celerina)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) A.D. 399OR Claudianus, Claudius…
8 April 1800	Claudian, Fescin	Claudianus, Claudius	Fescennina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) (Fescennine verses in honour of…
8 April 1800	Horaces, actes 1 & 2	Guillard, Nicolas François	Les Horaces, tragédie-lyrique, en trois actes, mêlee d'intermedes. Représentée devant …	1786
11 April 1800	Claudian, Gild., 212	Claudianus, Claudius	De bello Gildonico (The war with Gildo)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) A.D. 398WG's sale catalog lists…
11 April 1800	Vallaton, p. 54	Hamilton, Elizabeth	Memoirs of modern philosophers	1800	. (3 volumes) Vallaton is a main character/villain…
12 April 1800	Dewar versus Malthus, pp. 42				Unable to identify.
15 April 1800	Claudian, Theod., 102	Claudianus, Claudius	Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli (Panegyric on the consulship of Manlius)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) A.D. 399WG's sale catalog lists…
19 April 1800	Chalmers's Appendix, p. 52	Chalmers, George	An appendix to the supplemental apology for the believers in the supposititious Shakes…	1800	On 1797-01-16 WG reads Chalmers' An apology for th…
21 April 1800	Claudian, Eutrop., 228	Claudianus, Claudius	In Eutropium (Eutropius)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) A.D. 399WG's sale catalog lists…
30 April 1800	De Monfort	Baillie, Joanna	De Monfort, a tragedy	1798	in A series of plays. In which it is attempted to …
1 May 1800	Count Basil, act 1	Baillie, Joanna	Count Basil, a tragedy	1798	in A series of plays. In which it is attempted to …
4 May 1800	Trial, com.	Baillie, Joanna	The Tryal, a comedy	1798	in A series of plays. In which it is attempted to …
5 May 1800	preface, pp. 72	Baillie, Joanna	Introductory discourse	1798	in A series of plays. In which it is attempted to …
6 May 1800	Heir of Villeuve, 4 acts				Unable to identify.
8 May 1800	Religio Medici, çala	Browne, Sir Thomas	Religio medici.	1642	WG's sale catalog lists:Browne's (Sir Tho.) Works,…
11 May 1800	Scornful Lady, acts 1 & 2	Beaumont, Francis	The scornful ladie, a comedie. As it was acted (with great applause) by the children o…	1616	Fletcher, John
16 May 1800	Elder Brother, acts 1, 2, 3	Fletcher, John	The elder brother, a comedie. Acted at the Blacke Friers, by his Maiesties Servants. P…	1637	Massinger, Philip
19 May 1800	Chances	Fletcher, John	The chances	1647	Beaumont, Francis in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
22 May 1800	Rule a Wife, acts 1, 2, 3	Fletcher, John	Rvle a wife and have a wife. A comoedy. Acted by His Majesties servants.	1640
23 May 1800	Pilgrim, acts 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	The pilgrim	1647	in Comedies and tragedies, written by Francis Beau…
26 May 1800	Wit without Money, act 1, 2	Fletcher, John	Wit without money, a comedie.	1639	Beaumont, Francis
27 May 1800	Little French Lawyer	Fletcher, John	The little French lawyer	1647	Beaumont, Francis in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
31 May 1800	Spanish Curate, acts 1, 2, 3	Fletcher, John	The Spanish curate	1647	Beaumont, Francis in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
5 June 1800	Cordelia, Vol. I	Fortnum, Sophia King	Cordelia, or A romance of real life.	1799
8 June 1800	sir Tho. More, apud Johnson's Dict	More, sir Thomas	A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their origin…	1755	Examples/excerpts of Thomas More's writing in John…
9 June 1800	Shepherd's Calendar; 5 Ecl.	Spenser, Edmund	The shepheardes calender conteyning tvvelue aeglogues proportionable to the twelue mon…	1579
10 June 1800	Robinson on Women, pp. 104	Robinson, Mary	Thoughts on the condition of women, and on the injustice of mental subordination. By M…	1799
16 June 1800	Tyrrwhit <of> on Chaucer, Vol. IV, pp. 189	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales of Chaucer. To which are added, an essay upon his language and ve…	1775	Tyrwhitt, Thomas, F. R. S. (editor) (vol. 5 contai…
20 June 1800	Claudian, Stilic, I, 230	Claudianus, Claudius	De consulatu Stilichonis (On Stilicho's consulship)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) A.D. 400WG's sale catalog lists…
21 June 1800	Humorous Lieutenant, act 1	Fletcher, John	The humorous lieutenant	1647	in Comedies and tragedies, written by Francis Beau…
23 June 1800	Malone's Dryden, p. 90	Dryden, John	The critical and miscellaneous prose works of John Dryden: now first collected: with n…	1800	Malone, Edmond (editor) WG's sale catalog lists:Dr…
24 June 1800	Parke, p. 118	Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de	The historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China, and the situation thereof, to…	1588	Unable to identify with certainty. The following w…
3 July 1800	Love of Fame, Sat. I	Young, Edward	The universal passion. Sat. I. To His Grace the Duke of Dorset.	1725	(published anonymously) Republished in a collected…
4 July 1800	Killala, p. 136	Stock, Joseph	Proceedings at Killalla, during the French invasion, and the subsequent rebellion, fro…	1799	(8 volumes) OR Stock, Joseph A narrative of what p…
5 July 1800	Introd. Spencer	Hutcheson, Archibald	Copies of some letters from Mr. Hutcheson to the late [Charles Spencer] Earl of Sunder…	1722	Possibly: Conjecture based on WG's spelling of ‘Sp…
7 July 1800	Fox's Letter, pp. 43	Fox, Charles James	A letter from the Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox to the worthy and independent electors of…	1793	Identification based on exact match with pages WG …
9 July 1800	Rowan's Trial, pp. 152	Rowan, Archibald Hamilton	Report of the trial of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., on an information filed, ex off…	1794
10 July 1800	Bacon, p. 16	Francis Bacon		1800-07	Probably , but unable to identify specific work WG…
16 July 1800	Grattan v. Clare, pp. 44	Grattan, Henry	An answer to a pamphlet, entitled, The speech of the Earl of Clare, on the subject of …	1800	Based on the exact page match, WG probably read th…
17 July 1800	Finerty's Trial, pp. 113	Ridgeway, William	A report of the trial of Peter Finerty upon an indictment for a libel. By William Ridg…	1798	Identification based on exact page match with the …
18 July 1800	Clare's Speech, pp. 101	Clare, Fitzgibbon, John, Earl of	The speech of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Clare, Lord High Chancellor of Irelan…	1800	Identification confirmed by exact page match with …
19 July 1800	Mullala, p. 134	Mullala, James	The political history of Ireland, from the commencement of Lord Townshend's administra…	1793	OR Mullala, James A view of Irish affairs since th…
21 July 1800	Speeches for Howison, pp. 67	Curran, John Philpot	The speeches of John Philpot Curran, George Ponsonby, Michael Smith, and Patrick Duige…	1791	et al. Identification based on exact page match wi…
22 July 1800	Curry's Dialogue, pp. 162	Curry, John	A brief account from the most authentic Protestant writers of the causes, motives, and…	1747
24 July 1800	Curry's Memoirs of 1641, p. 136	Curry, John	Historical memoirs of the Irish rebellion in the year, 1641; extracted from Parliamentary journals, …	1758
26 July 1800	Curry's Review, p. 56	Curry, John	An historical and critical review of the civil wars in Ireland, from the reign of Quee…	1775
27 July 1800	Leland's Ireland, çala	Leland, Thomas	The history of Ireland from the invasion of Henry II.	1773	(3 volumes)
11 August 1800	Burns, çala	Burns, Robert	The complete works of Robert Burns, containing his poems, songs, and correspondence. I…	1786	Unable to identify with certainty. The following a…
15 August 1800	Hymn to Love	Spenser, Edmund	Fowre Hymnes.	1596	probably ‘An Hymn in Honour of Love' in
16 August 1800	Hymn to Beauty	Spenser, Edmund	Fowre Hymnes.	1596	probably ‘An Hymn in Honour of Beauty' in
19 August 1800	Arnot's Ms	Arnot, John			John Arnot traveled to St. Petersburg via Warsaw, …
20 August 1800	Abbé de l'Epée	Bouilly, Jean Nicolas	The deaf and dumb, or The Abbé de L'Epée. An historical play. In five acts. Translated…	1801	OR l'Epée, C.-M., abbé de Institution des sourds e…
22 August 1800	Memoires Sec. sur la Russie, p. 144	Masson, Charles François Philibert	Mémoires secrets sur la Russie.	1800
23 August 1800	Heavenly Love	Spenser, Edmund	Fowre Hymnes.	1596	‘An Hymn in Honour of Heavenly Love' in
24 August 1800	Faithful Shepherdess, acts 1, 2, 3	Fletcher, John	The faithful shepherdess.	1608-1610	c. London (no date on first quarto title page)
24 August 1800	Coxe's Walpole, p. 51-80	Coxe, William	Memoirs of the life and administration of Sir Robert Walpole, earl of Orford. With ori…	1798	WG's sale catalog lists:Coxe's (Archd.) Memoirs of…
29 August 1800	Mad Lover, acts 1, 2, 3	Fletcher, John	The mad lover	1647	in Comedies and tragedies, written by Francis Beau…
1 September 1800	Etymologicum Magnum	Mousouros, Markos (editor, attributed to)	Etymologicum magnum graecum.	1499	Kallierges, Zacharias (editor, attributed to)
5 September 1800	Woman-Hater	Beaumont, Francis	The woman hater. As it hath beene lately acted by the Children of Paules.	1607	Fletcher, John
7 September 1800	Muiopotmos	Spenser, Edmund	Complaints, containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie.	1591	‘Muipotmos, or, The fate of the butterflie' in
7 September 1800	Bonduca, acts 1 & 2	Beaumont, Francis	The tragedy of Bonduca	1647	Fletcher, John in Comedies and tragedies, written …
8 September 1800	Chaucer, Squire's Tale	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Squire's Tale' in , first printed by Caxton a…
10 September 1800	Claudian, de Bello Getico, 318	Claudianus, Claudius	De bello Getico (On the war with the Goths)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) A.D. 404WG's sale catalog lists…
10 September 1800	Loyal Subject, act 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	The loyall subject	1647	Beaumont, Francis in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
15 September 1800	Maid of the Inn, acts 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	The faire maid of the inne	1647	Ford, John Massinger, Philip Webster, John in Come…
17 September 1800	Cupid's Revenge	Fletcher, John	Cupid's revenge.	1615	Beaumont, Francis
17 September 1800	Defence of Poesy, p. 42	Sidney, Sir Philip	The defence of poesy.	1595	Also known as: An apologie for poetry.
18 September 1800	Island Princess, act 1	Fletcher, John	The island princesse	1647	in Comedies and tragedies, written by Francis Beau…
20 September 1800	Custom of ye Country, acts 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	The custome of the country	1647	Massinger, Philip in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
22 September 1800	Claudian, Ser.	Claudianus, Claudius	Laus Serenae (In praise of Serena)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) about A.D. 398OR Epistula ad Se…
23 September 1800	Claudian, Ep. I, II	Claudianus, Claudius	Epistula ad Olybrium and Epistula ad Probinum (Letter to Olybrius and Letter to Probin…	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) Possibly: about A.D. 395WG's sa…
23 September 1800	Prophetess, acts 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	The prophetesse	1647	Massinger, Philip in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
25 September 1800	Idyll. I	Claudianus, Claudius		1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) Unable to identify the specific…
25 September 1800	Honest Man's Fortune, acts 1 & 2	Field, Nathan	Honest mans fortune	1647	Massinger, Philip Fletcher, John in Comedies and t…
26 September 1800	Lover's Progress, acts 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	The lover's progresse	1647	Massinger, Philip in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
27 September 1800	Beggar's Bush.	Fletcher, John	The beggers bush	1647	Beaumont, Francis in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
29 September 1800	Monsieur Thomas, acts 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	Monsieur Thomas, a comedy.	1639	Brome, Richard
1 October 1800	Maid in the Mill, acts 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	The maide in the mill	1647	Beaumont, Francis in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
2 October 1800	Claudian, Ep. Pallad	Claudianus, Claudius	Epithalamium Palladio et Celerinae (Epithalamium of Palladius and Celerna)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) A.D. 399WG's sale catalog lists…
3 October 1800	Donne, Sat. 2	Donne, John	Poems, with elegies on the author's death.	1633	‘Satyre II' in WG also (at some time) evidently re…
3 October 1800	Fairfax, stanz. 16	Tasso, Torquato	Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The recouerie of Ierusalem. Done into English heroicall verse…	1600	Fairfax, Edward (translator)
4 October 1800	Claudian, Proserp. I	Claudianus, Claudius	De raptu Proserpine (The rape of Proserpine)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) A.D. 395-397WG's sale catalog l…
12 October 1800	Ruggiero, p. 8	Metastasio, Pietro	Il Ruggiero, re di Sicilia, tragedia.	1729	OR in a collection of Metastasio's works, such as:…
15 October 1800	Warton's History, Diss. I	Warton, Thomas	The history of English poetry from the close of the eleventh to the commencement of th…	1774-1781
15 October 1800	Claudian, Giga	Claudianus, Claudius	Gigantomachia (The Battle of the Giants)	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) date unknownWG's sale catalog l…
15 October 1800	& Epig. 1-12	Claudianus, Claudius	Epigrammata.	1665	(fl. A.D. 395-404) dates unknownWG's sale catalog …
15 October 1800	Read to Fenwick's		Antonio	1800-10	Possibly WG reads his play , completed on -10.
19 October 1800	Chaucer, çala	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	The earliest edition of Chaucer's Canterbury tales…
21 October 1800	Chaucer, Grisildis	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Clerkes Tale' in The earliest edition of Chau…
27 October 1800	Temistocle, p. 7.	Metastasio, Pietro	Il Temistocle: dramma per musica. Da rappresentarsi nel gran Teatro dell'imperial cort…	1736	Probably: Caldara, Antonio (music) . OR in a colle…
10 November 1800	Sol. Wanderer, p. 156	Smith, Charlotte Turner	The letters of a solitary wanderer containing narratives of various description.	1800
16 November 1800	Tobins			1800-10	Possibly WG reads his play ‘Antonio,' completed on…
19 November 1800	Achille, p. 23	Corneille, Thomas	La Mort d'Achille, tragédie. Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris.	1676	WG's sale catalog lists: Corneille, Chef d'Oeuvres…
23 November 1800	Heptameron, p. 21	Marguerite, Queen consort of Henry II King of Navarre	Histoires des amans fortunez, dediées à tresillustre princess madame Marguerite de Bou…	1558	The short title (and in later editions published a…
25 November 1800	Wild-Goose Chace, acts 1 & 2	Fletcher, John	The wild-goose chase.	1652
27 November 1800	Tito, p. 6	Metastasio, Pietro	La Clemenza di Tito: dramma per musica. Da rappresentarsi nella Caesarea corte per il …	1734	Caldara, Antonio (music) . OR in a collection of M…
29 November 1800	Hume, Rich. II, pp. 51	Hume, David	The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688. …	1762	This was the first edition to collect all six volu…
30 November 1800	Martial Maid, acts 1, 2, 3	Beaumont, Francis	Love's cure: or, the martial maid	1647	Fletcher, John Massinger, Philip in Comedies and t…
2 December 1800	Chaucer, Miller's Tale	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Milleres Tale' in The earliest edition of Cha…
3 December 1800	Knight's Tale, p. 34	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Knightes Tale' in The earliest edition of Cha…
3 December 1800	Malthus on Provisions, pp. 28	Malthus, Thomas Robert	An investigation of the cause of the present high price of provisions. By the author o…	1800
4 December 1800	Sea Voyage, act 1	Fletcher, John	The sea voyage	1647	Beaumont, Francis in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
5 December 1800	Burke on Scarcity, pp. 48	Burke, Edmund	Thoughts and details on scarcity, originally presented to the Right Hon. William Pitt,…	1800
6 December 1800	Lyrical Tales, p. 100	Robinson, Mary	Lyrical tales, by Mrs. Mary Robinson.	1800
9 December 1800	Gowrie, acts 1, 2, 3	Rough, sir William	The conspiracy of Gowrie, a tragedy.	1800
9 December 1800	Coxcomb, act 1 & 2	Beaumont, Francis	The coxcombe	1647	Fletcher, John in Comedies and tragedies, written …
12 December 1800	Captain, acts 1 & 2	Beaumont, Francis	The captaine	1647	Fletcher, John in Comedies and tragedies, written …
18 December 1800	Suppliants	Euripides	The royal suppliants, a tragedy. As performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.	1781	Delap, John (adaptor) London: J. BowenWC
18 December 1800	Who's the Dupe	Cowley, Hannah	Who's the dupe?	1779
20 December 1800	Stoops to Conquer	Goldsmith, Oliver	She stoops to conquer, or, The mistakes of a night.	1773
20 December 1800	Yorkshire Tragedy	Shakespeare, William (falsely attributed to)	A Yorkshire tragedy not so new as lametable and true. Acted by His Maiesties players a…	1608
22 December 1800	Puritan	Smith, Wentworth (sometimes attributed to)	The Puritaine, or, The widow of Watling-streete. Acted by the children of Paules. Writ…	1607	Middleton, Thomas (sometimes attributed to) Shakes…
23 December 1800	Lord Cromwel	Shakespeare, William (attributed on slight grounds, included in 3	The true chronicle historie of the whole life and death of Thomas, Lord Cromwell. As i…	1602	rd and 4 th folios) Smith, Wentworth (attributed t…
23 December 1800	1/2 Sir J Oldcastle	Munday, Anthony (attributed to)	The first part of the true and honorable historie of the life of Sir John Old-Castle, …	1600	Drayton, Michael (attributed to) Wilson, Robert (a…
25 December 1800	Harris				Unable to identify.
25 December 1800	& Herbert, çala			1660-61	Unable to identify with any certainty.WG's sale ca…
26 December 1800	Chardin, p. 102	Chardin, Jean	Le couronnement de Soleïmaan, troisième roy de Perse, ex ce qui s'est passé de plus mé…	1671	OR Chardin, Jean Journal du voyage de chevalier Ch…
28 December 1800	Olearius	Olearius, Adam	Relation du voyage de Moscovie, Tartarie, et de Perse, fait à l'occasion d'une ambassa…	1656	OR Olearius, Adam Davies, John (translator) The vo…
31 December 1800	Countess of Castle-Howel, p. 100	Mrs. Bennett	Ellen, countess of castle Howel, a novel.	1794
1 January 1801	D'Herbelot, çala	Herbelot de Molainville, Barthélemy d'	Bibliothèque orientale, ou Dictionnaire universel contenant généralement tout ce qui r…	1697
7 January 1801	Mod. Uni. Hist., Vol. V, p. 417-489	Sale, George (compiler)	The modern part of an universal history, from the earliest account of time. Compiled f…	1759
8 January 1801	Tavernier, Vol. I, p. 518-539	Tavernier, Jean Baptiste	Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier, ecuyer baron d'Aubonne, qu'il a fait en Tu…	1676
10 January 1801	Denham's Sophi		The sophy. As it was acted at the private house in Black Friars by His Majesties serva…	1667	Denham, John
10 January 1801	Persian Tales, p. 20	de La Croix, François Petis (compiler)	Les milles & un jour. Contes persanes.	1711-1713	Le Sage, Alain René (reviser) In English: de La Cr…
12 January 1801	Gibbon, Tamerlane, pp. 46	Gibbon, Edward	The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.	1776-1788	Volume 6, chapter LXV is entitled ‘Elevation of Ti…
17 January 1801	Ricaut's State of O. E., p. 12	Rycaut, sir Paul	The present state of the Ottoman Empire containing the maxims of the Turkish politie, …	1667
29 January 1801	1/2 London Prodigal	Shakespeare, William (attributed to)	The London prodigall. As it was played by the Kings maiesties seruants.	1605
2 February 1801	Chaucer; Doctor, Prioress & Manciple	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Phiciciens Tale'; ‘The Prioresses Tale'; ‘The…
3 February 1801	Chaucer, 1/2 Man of Laws	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Tale of the Man of Lawe' in , first printed b…
6 February 1801	Josephus, B. XIV, XV	Josephus	Jewish Antiquities.		completed 93-94 A.D.
9 February 1801	De Solis, p. 200	De Solis, Antonio	Historia de la conquista de Mexico: poblacion y progressos de la America septentrional…	1684	Translated as: De Solis, Antonio Townsend, Thomas …
14 February 1801	Herman & Dorothea, Book 1, 2, 3	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Herman und Dorothea. A poem, from the German of Goethe.	1801	Holcroft, Thomas (translator) In German: Goethe, J…
20 February 1801	Du Cerceau, p. 66	Tadeusz Jan Krusinski	Histoire de la dernière révolution de Perse. Par le P. Du Cerceau d'après Barbier.	1728	du Cerceau, Jean-Antoine, père First English trans…
24 February 1801	C Strictures, pp. 44	Godwin, William	Cursory strictures on the charge delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre to the grand jur…	1794	(published anonymously)
25 February 1801	Reflections on the Recovery, pp. 60	Godwin, William	Reflexions on the consequences of His Majesty's recovery from his late indisposition. …	1789	Attributed to William Godwin by Pamela Clemit in S…
26 February 1801	Fraser's Nadir, çlà	Fraser, James	The history of Nadir Shah, formerly called Thamas Kuli Khan, the present emperor of Pe…	1742
27 February 1801	Deaf & Dumb, acts 1, 2, 3	Bouilly, Jean Nicolas	Deaf and dumb, or, The orphan protected. An historical drama ….	1801	Holcroft, Thomas (adaptor)
27 February 1801	Romeo, act 1	Shakespeare, William	The Most Excellent and Lametable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.	1597	quarto
2 March 1801	Chaucer, Franklin	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Frankeleyns Tale' in , first printed by Caxto…
4 March 1801	Crimes of Cabinets, p. 109	Goldsmith, Lewis	The crimes of cabinets; or, A review of their plans and aggressions for the annihilati…	1801	Identified by exact page match and title.
6 March 1801	Palamon, p. 40	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Knightes Tale' in , first printed by Caxton a…
7 March 1801	Hauterive, p. 34	Hauterive, Alexandre Maurice Blanc de Lanautte, comte d'	De l'état de la France, à la fin de l'an VIII.	1800	In English: Hauterive, Alexandre Maurice Blanc de …
8 March 1801	Chaucer, Cock & Fox	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Nun's Priest's Tale' in , first printed by Ca…
9 March 1801	Chaucer, Merchant	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Marchantes Tale' in , first printed by Caxton…
10 March 1801	Chaucer, Prologue	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	General Prologue to , first printed by Caxton and …
10 March 1801	Frere	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Freres Tale' (Friar's Tale) in , first printe…
10 March 1801	& Summoner	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Somnours Tale' in , first printed by Caxton a…
11 March 1801	Chaucer, Pardoner	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Pardoner's Tale' in , first printed by Caxton…
12 March 1801	Spenser, Sonnets 38	Spenser, Edmund	Amoretti and Epithalamion.	1595	Sonnet 38 is part of the Amoretti.
13 March 1801	Epithalam.	Spenser, Edmund	Amoretti and Epithalamion.	1595
13 March 1801	M Hubberd, vs. 420	Spenser, Edmund	Complaints, containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie, vvhereof the next p…	1591	‘Prosopopoia, or mother Hubberd's tale' in
14 March 1801	Percy's Reliques, p. 144	Percy, Thomas	Reliques of ancient English poetry, consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other…	1745	WG's sale catalog lists:Percy's (Bp.) Reliques of …
17 March 1801	B Jonson, apud P S, pp. 60				Unable to identify.
20 March 1801	Shakespear, Sonnets 30	Shakespeare, William	Shake-speares Sonnets.	1609
21 March 1801	Pinkerton	Pinkerton, John	Select Scotish ballads.	1783
21 March 1801	Evergreen, çala	Ramsay, Allan	The Evergreen, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600.	1761	OR Author unknown The evergreen, or, the songster'…
22 March 1801	Thoughts on Nature & Romance				Unable to identify.
26 March 1801	Mere Oye, p. 80	Perrault, Charles	Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec de moralitez. Par le fils de Monsieur Perraul…	1698	(Also known as Contes de ma mere l'oye) The 16th e…
26 March 1801	Clairon, p. 60	Clairon, Claire Joseph Hippolyte Legris de La Tude	Memoires d'Hyppolite Clairon, et reflexions sur l'art dramatique; publies par elle-mem…	1798	English translation: Clairon, Claire Joseph Hippol…
27 March 1801	Don Garcie de Navarre	Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Dom Garcie de Navarre, ou, Le prince jaloux: comedie.	1684	WG's sale catalog lists: Moliere, ses Oeuvres, 7 v…
27 March 1801	Wits, çala	D'Avenant, William	The wits. A comedie presented at the private house in Black Fryers, by His Majesties s…	1636	Possibly: WG's sale catalog lists:D'Avenant's (Sir…
30 March 1801	Ossian, Dissertation	Blair, Hugh	A critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian the son of Fingal.	1763	ORthe same title published in: MacPherson, James T…
31 March 1801	Fingal, B. I	MacPherson, James	Fingal; an ancient epic poem. In six books; together with several other poems, compose…	1762
31 March 1801	Songs of Selma	MacPherson, James	The songs of Selma. From the original of Ossian the son of Fingal.	1762
1 April 1801	Mrs Haywood, p. 100	Haywood, Eliza			Probably: Unable to identify the work.
4 April 1801	Comala	MacPherson, James	The works of Ossian.	1765	‘Comála: a dramatic poem' in
5 April 1801	Carrie-thura	MacPherson, James	The works of Ossian.	1765	‘Carric-thura: a poem' in
6 April 1801	Hume, çala	Hume, David	The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688. …	1762	Unable to identify with certainty, but given WG's …
13 April 1801	Robertson, p. 19	Robertson, William	The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI. till his…	1759	Unable to identify with certainty, but given WG's …
18 April 1801	Boulainvilliers, çala	Boulainvilliers, Henri, comte de	Histoire de l'ancien gouvernement de la France, avec quatorze lettres historiques sur …	1727	Several works by Boulainvilliers would be of inter…
21 April 1801	Fell's Tour	Fell, Ralph	A tour through the Batavian republic during the latter part of the year 1800, containi…	1801	Possibly:
22 April 1801	Hauteville, p. 34	Gaspard de Tende, sieur de Hauteville	Relation historique de la Pologne, contenat le pouvoir de ses rois, leur élection, et …	1686	Unable to identify with certainty. Possibly:
24 April 1801	Turner, p. 52, Vol. II	Turner, Sharon	The history of the Anglo-Saxons, from their first appearance above the Elbe, to the de…	1799-1801	Conjecture based on WG's interest in early British…
29 April 1801	Spelman on Tenures, p. 24	Spelman, sir Henry	Reliquiae Spelmannianae. The posthumous works of Sir Henry Spelman kt. relating to the…	1698	Gibson, Edmund The contents include: ‘The original…
30 April 1801	Hurd, Dialogues 5 & 6	Hurd, Richard	Moral and political dialogues, being the substance of serveral conversations between d…	1759
1 May 1801	Le Grand, Tom. I, p. 76; Tom. II, p. 89	Legrand d'Aussy, Pierre Jean-Baptiste	Fabliaux ou contes du XIIe et du XIIIe siècle, traduits ou extraits d'après divers man…	1779	(published anonymously) (3 volumes) 1781: publishe…
4 May 1801	Stuart's View, p. 32	Stuart, Gilbert	A view of society in Europe in its progress from rudeness to refinement, or, Inquiries…	1778
4 May 1801	Hurd on Chivalry, p. 56	Hurd, Richard	Letters on chivalry and romance.	1762
6 May 1801	Life of Wickliff, p. 56	Lewis, John	The history of the life and sufferings of the reverend and learned John Wicliffe, D.D.…	1720	WG's sale catalog lists:Wicliffe (John) Life of, b…
7 May 1801	Gilpin's Lives, p. 103-263	Gilpin, William	The lives of John Wicliff and of the most eminent of his disciples; Lord Cobham, John …	1765
8 May 1801	do, Dissertation, pp. 290	Stuart, Gilbert	An historical dissertation concerning the antiquity of the English constitution.	1768
9 May 1801	Millar's View, p. 102	Millar, John	An historical view of the English government, from the settlement of the Saxons in Bri…	1787
12 May 1801	English Baron, p. 180	Reeve, Clara	The champion of virtue. A Gothic story.	1777	1st edition.Later published under the title: The o…
14 May 1801	St Palaye, Memoires, 1, 2/2	Sainte-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de	Mémoires sur l'ancienne chevalerie.	1719	(2 volumes) WG cites in his biography of Chaucer:S…
16 May 1801	Northern Antiqs, p. 123	Mallet, Paul Henri	Northern antiquities, or, A description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of …	1770	Göransson, Johan (translator of the Edda) Percy, T…
17 May 1801	Mallet, p. 192	Mallet, Paul Henri	Introduction à l'histoire de Dannemarc, ou l'on traite de la religion, du loix, des mo…	1755	AND/OR Mallet, Paul Henri Monumens de la mythologi…
18 May 1801	Parr's Sermon, p. 14	Parr, Samuel	A spital sermon, preached at Christ Church, upon Easter Tuesday, April 15, 1800. To wh…	1801	WG's sale catalog lists:Parr's (Dr. Sam.) Spital S…
27 May 1801	Mably, p. 119-152	Mably, Gabriel Bonnot, abbé de	Observations sur le gouvernement et les lois des États-Unis de l'Amerique, par M. l'ab…	1784	Unable to identify with certainty. WG has previous…
28 May 1801	Henault, &c.	Henault, Charles Jean-François	Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de France.	1755	Possibly: OR Henault, Charles Jean-François Abrégé…
1 June 1801	Enquirer, p. 309	Godwin, William	The Enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays…	1797
1 June 1801	Voltaire, H G., çala	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Essay sur l'histoire générale et sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations, depuis Charle…	1756	WG's sale catalog lists:Voltaire, Theatre, Henriad…
8 June 1801	Pol. Justice, çala	Godwin, William	Enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on morals and happiness. By Wi…	1798
17 June 1801	Edda, p. 22	Sturluson, Snorri	Edda	1746	with Icelandic and Swedish parallel texts and incl…
29 June 1801	Troilus, B. I/2	Chaucer, Geoffrey	Troilus and Criseyde.	1380-2	c. (composed) 1484 first printed by Caxton; 2nd ed…
30 June 1801	Sheridan's Swift, p. 76	Sheridan, Thomas	The life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. By Thomas Sher…	1784	WG's sale catalog lists:Sheridan's (T.) Life of De…
4 July 1801	Religieuse de Nismes, pp. 79	Pougens, Charles	Julie, ou, La religieuse de Nismes. Drame historique en un acte et en prose.	1792	Identified by title and page match.
6 July 1801	Lansdown House, mss				Unable to identify.
7 July 1801	Pleasures of Hope, Pt I	Campbell, Thomas	The pleasures of hope with other poems.	1799	WG's sale catalog lists:Campbell (Tho.) Pleasures …
7 July 1801	Fletcher of Salton, p. 108	Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun	Two discourses concerning the affairs of Scotland. Written in the year 1698. By Andrew…	1698	Several possibilities: (published anonymously) (50…
13 July 1801	Gamelyn, pp. 13	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The tale of Gamelyn' in , first printed by Caxton…
15 July 1801	Cant. Tales, H L, Vol. IV, p. 86	Lee, Harriet	Canterbury tales for the year 1801.	1801	(Volume IV.)
20 July 1801	Confessions de Rousseau, V. III, p. 242	Rousseau, Jean Jacques	Les confessions de J.-J. Rousseau	1788-93	There are several multivolume editions. The earlie…
21 July 1801	Lettre sur la Religion, pp. 32	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Recueil d'opuscules concernant les ouvrages et les sentimens de nos philosophes modern…	1765	Possibly one of the pieces in: Also known as Recue…
21 July 1801	Parent's Assistant, p. 88	Edgeworth, Maria	The parent's assistant, or, Stories for children. In two volumes.	1796	(published anonymously)
24 July 1801	Castle Rackrent, pp. 214	Edgeworth, Maria	Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale: Taken from facts and from the manners of the Irish…	1800
26 July 1801	Letters of J J R, çala	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Original Letters of J.-J. Rousseau to M. de Malesherbes, M. d'Alembert, Madame la Maré…	1799	OR Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Nouvelles lettres de J.-…
28 July 1801	Rêveries, p. 52	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Les reveries du promeneur solitaire.	1782	Originally published with the Confessions, this is…
31 July 1801	Romolo, p. 9	Metastasio, Pietro	Romolo ed Ersilia.	1757	in Poesie. (volume 10) WG's sale catalog lists: Me…
31 July 1801	Rousseau sur la Botanique, p. 88	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Botanique des enfants, ou Histoire naturelle générale et particulière du règne végétal…	1800	o Les lettres élémentaires de J.-J. Rousseau sur l…
6 August 1801	Tibullus, Eleg. 1	Tibullus, Albius	Elegiae (Elegies)	1754	(c. 54-19 B.C.) date unknownWG's sale catalog list…
11 August 1801	Vie de la Fontaine, pp. 46	Author unknown	Vie de la Fontaine	1745	Published in: La Fontaine, Jean de Contes et nouve…
11 August 1801	Trimmer's Knowledge of Nature, p. 91	Trimmer, Sarah	An easy introduction to the knowledge of nature: and reading the Holy Scripture, adapt…	1780
13 August 1801	Int. ad. Prudentiam, çala	Fuller, Thomas	Introductio ad prudentiam; or directions, counsels and cautions, tending to prudent ma…	1726	; Part 2 published 1727.
16 August 1801	Garland of Truth	Anonymous	The garland of truth, or, Integrity proved. A comedy in five acts.	1801	According to Nicoll, the play was both performed a…
16 August 1801	Sechelles sur Buffon, pp. 70	Hérault de Séchelles, Marie-Jean	Voyage à Montbar, contenant des details très-intéressans sur le caractère, la personne…	1800
17 August 1801	Memoirs of M Rn, p. 192	Robinson, Mary	Memoirs of the late Mrs. Robinson, written by herself.	1801	Vol. 1. Identification confirmed by exact page mat…
19 August 1801	Stow	Stow, John	The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, new printed, with diuers addicions, whiche were neuer …	1561	‘Edited by William Thynne … with additions, mostly…
19 August 1801	Wolsey	Cavendish, George	The negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, the great cardinall of England, containing his lif…	1641	OR Woolsey, Thomas, cardinal Burleigh, William Cec…
20 August 1801	Stuart's Scotland, p. 160	Stuart, Gilbert	The history of Scotland: from the establishment of the reformation, till the death of …	1782
26 August 1801	More's Richd III, pp. 37	More, Sir Thomas	The workes of Sir Thomas More, Knyght, sometyme Lord Chauncellor of England.	1557	Includes ‘The history of Kyng Richard the Third' u…
26 August 1801	Selden, Table Talk, çala	Selden, John	Table-talk, being the discourses of John Selden, Esq., or his sence of various matters…	1689
27 August 1801	Laing on Warbeck, pp. 59	Laing, Malcolm	The history of Scotland, from the union of the crowns on the accession of James VI. … …	1800	(2 volumes) (The Dissertation on the Gowrie conspi…
27 August 1801	Henry's Richd III, pp. 49	Henry, Robert	The history of Great Britain from the first invation of it by the Romans under Julius …	1771-1793	Laing, Malcolm (6 volumes) London: for the author,…
30 August 1801	Tibullus, Paneg.	Tibullus, Albius			(c. 54-19 B.C.) Unable to identify title.
30 August 1801	Chaucer, 1/2 Melibee	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The tale of Melibeus' in , first printed by Caxto…
2 September 1801	Maitland, çala	Maitland, William	The history of London, from its foundation by the Romans, to the present time. Contain…	1739	WG cites the following in his biography of Chaucer…
6 September 1801	Complete Angler, p. 56	Walton, Izaak	The compleat angler or, The contemplative man's recreation. Being a discourse of fish …	1653	WG's sale catalog lists:Walton and Cotton's Comple…
11 September 1801	Atala, p. 248	Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de	Atala, ou Les amours de deux sauvages dans le desert.	1801	2nd editionEnglish translation: Chateaubriand, Fra…
11 September 1801	Women Pleased, acts 1, 2, 3	Fletcher, John	Women Pleas'd	1647	in Comedies and tragedies, written by Francis Beau…
14 September 1801	Ellis's Specimens, çala	Ellis, George (editor)	Specimens of the early English poets.	1790
16 September 1801	Pity A Whore, acts 1, 2, 3	Ford, John	'Tis pitty shee's a whore. Acted by the Queenes Maiesties seruants, at the Phaenix in …	1633	WG's sale catalog lists a later edition:Ford's Dra…
17 September 1801	Mirror of Ms, Sackville, pp. 50	Higgins, John	The mirour for magistrates: wherein may bee seene by examples passed in this realme, w…	1587	Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset WG's sale catalo…
21 September 1801	Flower & Leaf	Chaucer, Geoffrey (attributed to, spurious)	The Flower and the Leaf	1598	Speght, Thomas (editor) first printed in The worke…
22 September 1801	Court of Love	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Court of Love	1561	Stow, John (editor) first printed in The woorkes o…
23 September 1801	Black Knight	Chaucer, Geoffrey (attributed to)	The complaint of the blacke knight	1561	Lydgate, John Reprinted by John Stow, in The woork…
24 September 1801	Barnes	Barnes, Joshua	The history of that most victorious monarch Edward IIId. King of England and France, a…	1688	WG cites from the following in his biography of Ch…
29 September 1801	Froissard, çala	Froissart, Jean	Le premier [-quart] volume de l'Histoire et cronique de messire Jean de Froissart, rev…	1559-1561	WG cites Froissart in his biography of Chaucer:Fro…
30 September 1801	Parliament of Birds	Chaucer, Geoffrey	Parliament of Foules	1477-8	First printed by Caxton and in a better second edi…
30 September 1801	& Cuckow & Nightingle	Chaucer, Geoffrey (attributed to)	Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale	1561	Hoccleve, Thomas Reprinted by Stow, in The woorkes…
1 October 1801	Urry's Life of Chaucer	Urry, John (editor)	The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, compared with the former editions and many valuable man…	1721	WG's sale catalog lists:Chaucer's Works, with Glos…
1 October 1801	Fillingham's study				Unable to identify.
2 October 1801	Chaucer's Dream	Chaucer, Geoffrey (spurious)	Dreme	1598	Speght, Thomas (editor) First printed in The worke…
3 October 1800	Book of the Duchess	Chaucer, Geoffrey	Book of the Duchesse	1561	Stow, John (editor) Reprinted by Stow, in The woor…
14 October 1801	Collins, çala	Collins, Arthur	The peerage of England: or, an historical and genealogical account of the present nobi…	1709	OR Collins, Arthur The life and glorious actions o…
16 October 1801	Testament of Love, Book I	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The testament of love	1561	Stow, John (editor) Reprinted by Stow, in The woor…
25 October 1801	Boetius, Lib. I	Chaucer, Geoffrey	Boethius.	1377-1381	composed first published by Caxton, probably 1479.…
31 October 1801	Romaunt of the Rose, 876	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Romaunt of the Rose	1532	Thynne, William (editor) in The workes of Geoffray…
2 November 1800	Vie de Petrarque, p. 110	de Sade, Jacques-François Paul Alphonse	Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Pétrarque. Par l'abbé de Sades.	1746	(3 volumes) WG cites both of the following in his …
7 November 1800	Enfield, çala	Brucker, Johann Jakob	The history of philosophy, from the earliest times to the beginning of the present cen…	1791	WG's cites both of the following, which may be one…
13 November 1800	Lowth's Wykeham, pp. 321	Lowth, Robert	The life of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester. Collected from records, register…	1758
24 November 1800	Warton on Architecture, pp. 15	Warton, Thomas	Essays on gothic architecture: twelve plates of ornaments, &c. selected from …	1686	in WG's sale catalog lists:Warton, Bentham, Grose …
1 December 1800	Fuller, çala	Fuller, Thomas	The church-history of Britain, from the birth of Jesus Christ, untill the year MDCXLVI…	1655-1656	Possibly one of the following: (3 volumes in 1) OR…
6 December 1800	Shortsighted Lover				Unable to identify.
10 December 1800	Ct's Letters				Not yet identified.
19 December 1800	Malvina, p. 100	MacPherson, James	The poems of Ossian: being a literal translation from the original Gaelic into English…	1762	Malvina is a character in Ossian's poems, such as …
1 January 1802	read 2 Shoes	Anonymous	The history of little Goody Two-Shoes; otherwise called Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes.	1765
11 January 1802	Wood, çala	Wood, Anthony à	Athenae Oxonienses, an exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their…	1691	OR Wood, Anthony à Historia et antiquitates Univer…
20 January 1802	Chains of the Heart – IGNORE – NO ACTION REQUIRED. THIS IS A THEATRE EVENT	Prince Hoare	Chains of the heart, or, The slave by choice: a comic opera in three acts as performed…	1801
31 January 1802	Life of Grossetête, p. 36	Pegge, Samuel	The life of Robert Grosseteste, the celebrated bishop of Lincoln: with an account of t…	1793	WG cites the following in his biography of Chaucer…
3 February 1802	Charles & Marie, pp. 155	Flahaut, Adelaide Marie Emilie Filleul Sousa Botelho Mourao e Vasconcellos, comtesse e marqueza	Charles et Marie.	1802
4 February 1802	John Woodvil	Lamb, Charles	John Woodvil, a tragedy.	1802	Lamb, Mary
5 February 1802	Posth Works, Vol. III	Wollstonecraft, Mary	Posthumous works of the author of A vindication of the rights of woman.	1798	(4 volumes)
10 February 1802	Beauty & Beast		The polite academy, or, School of behaviour for younge gentlemen and lad…	1768	Unable to identify specific text. Possibly:‘Beauty…
17 February 1802	Noble Gentleman, act 1	Fletcher, John	The noble gentleman.	1647	Beaumont, Francis in Comedies and tragedies, writt…
19 February 1802	Father & Daughter, pp. 206	Alderson Opie, Amelia	The father and daughter, a tale, in prose. With an epistle from the maid of Corinth to…	1801
3 March 1802	Burke v. Bedford, p. 52	Burke, Edmund	A letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a noble lord, on the attacks made u…	1796
17 March 1802	De la Rue, pp. 60	Society of antiquaries of London	Archaeologia, or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity.	1770	-Unable to identify specific title by De la Rue. W…
25 March 1802	Percy, &c	Percy, Thomas	Reliques of ancient English poetry, consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other…	1745	OR Mallet, Paul Henri Göransson, Johan (translator…
30 March 1802	Boileau, çala	Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas	Oeuvres diverses du sieur D***, avec le Traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le di…	1674	Possibly: (two parts in one volume)WG probably rea…
31 March 1802	Fyshe Palmer's Narrative, pp. 79	Thomas Fyshe Palmer	A narrative of the sufferings of T. F. Palmer and W. Skirving, during a voyage to New …	1797
1 April 1802	M W Montague's Letters, 260, fin.	Montague, Lady Mary Pierrepont Wortley	Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M---y W------y M-----e; written during her travel…	1763	(3 volumes)
9 April 1802	Crescimbeni, çala	Crescimbeni, Giovanni Mario	L'Istoria della volgar poesia, scritto da Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, detto tra gli Ar…	1698	Unable to identify with certainty.Possibly: Conjec…
17 April 1802	1/2 Ethwald, I	Baillie, Joanna	Ethwald, part the first, and Ethwald, part the second	1798	in A series of plays: in which it is attempted to …
24 April 1802	Philostrato, p. 22	Philostratus, Flavius	The life of Apollonius of Tyana.	1680	(2nd/3rd century) date undeterminedOR Philostratus…
4 May 1802	Lydgate, Troy-Book, çala	delle Colonne, Guido	The hystorye, sege and destruccyon of Troye	1513	Lydgate, John (translator) de Sainte-More, Benoit …
18 May 1802	Goverus				Unable to identify.
22 June 1802	Pensées de Voltaire, p. 100	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Pensées philosophiques de M. de Voltaire, ou Tableau encyclopédique des connaissances …	1766	OR Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet Pensées, remarq…
2 July 1802	Abr. of Park, p. 50	Park, Mungo	Travels in the interior of Africa in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797, by Mungo Park. …	1799	Possibly:
28 July 1802	Cave, çala	Cave, William	Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum historia literaria, a Christo nato ad saeculum XIV. facili…	1688	Wharton, Henry (appendix) WG cites the following i…
31 July 1802	Mosheim, çala	Mosheim, Johann Lorenz	An ecclesiastical history, antient and modern, from the birth of Christ, to the beginn…	1765	Possibly: WG cites this work in his biography of C…
1 August 1802	Malone	Malone, Edmond (editor)	The plays and poems of William Shakespeare. In ten volumes; collated verbatim with the…	1790	WG indirectly cites Malone in his biography of Cha…
8 August 1802	Hawkins	Hawkins, Thomas (editor)	The origin of English drama: with explanatory notes.	1773	(3 volumes) WG's sale catalog lists:Hawkins' (Tho.…
20 August 1802	Strutt, çala	Strutt, Joseph	The chronicle of England.	1777-1778	Unable to identify with certainty. The following p…
8 September 1802	Captif de Valence, p. 149	Guénard, Élisabeth Brossin, baronne de Méré	Le captif de Valence, ou les derniers momens de Pie VI. Par Mme Guénard.	1802
11 September 1802	Notes on Hollinshed	Holinshed, Raphael	The firste volume of the chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande: conteyning th…	1577	(2 volumes) OR Holinshed, Raphael The chronicles o…
20 September 1802	M Paris, çala	Paris, Mathieu	Matthaei Paris, … Historia major, à Guilielmo Conquaestore, ad ultimum annum Henrici t…	1570	WG cites the following in his biography of Chaucer…
21 September 1802	Naples, çala	Sale, George (compiler)	The modern part of an universal history, from the earliest account of time. Compiled f…	1801-01	Possibly the following, first recorded on -07: 175…
1 October 1802	Andrews	Andrews, James Petit	The history of Great Britain, connected with the chronology of Europe , with notes, &c…	1794	OR Andrews, James Petit History of Great Britain, …
2 October 1802	Gothic Architecture, p. 102	Warton, Thomas	Essays on gothic architecture: twelve plates of ornaments, &c. selected from ancient b…	1800	Bentham, James Grose, Francis Milner, John Taylor,…
8 October 1802	Grose	Grose, Francis	The antiquities of England and Wales.	1773-1776	OR Grose, Captain Captain Grose's Views of Castles…
10 October 1802	King on Castles, p. 74	King, Edward	Observations on antient castles. By Edward King, Esq.	1777	The 1782 edition: ‘Reprinted with the original pla…
15 October 1802	Joinville	Du Cange, Charles Du Fresne	Dissertations ou reflexions sur l'histoire de S. Louys du sire de Joinville.	1785	WG cites the following in his biography of Chaucer…
18 October 1802	Montfaucon	Montfaucon, Bernard de	Les monumens de la monarchie françoise qui comprennent l'histoire de France avec les f…	1729-1733	WG cites the following work in his biography of Ch…
21 October 1802	Warburton	Warburton, William, bishop of Gloucester	The works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, Lord Bishop of Gloucester. In seven…	1788	Possibly:
22 October 1802	Pienne, p. 102				Unable to identify.
1 November 1802	Burney, p. 210	Burney, Charles	A general history of music: from the earliest ages to the present period.	1776	WG cites the following work in his biography of Ch…
8 November 1802	Eginhart	Eginhard	La vie du roy et empereur Charle-Maigne: composee jadis en langage latin par Eginhart …	1546	Vinet, Élie (translator) OR Eginhart Vita et gesti…
9 November 1802	Osbern	Osbern	De vita S. Dunstani	1691	in Wharton, Henry Anglia sacra, sive collectio his…
9 November 1802	Ayscought's Memd	Ayscough, Samuel	A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed: c…	1782
12 November 1802	Olaus Wormius	Wormius, Olaus	Runer seu Danica literatura antiquissima, Vulgo Gothica dicta luci reddita.	1636	WG cites the following in his biography of Chaucer…
15 November 1802	Bulæus	Bulaeus, Caesar Egassius	Historia universitatis Parisiensis ipsius fundationem, nationes, facultates magistratu…	1665-1673	WG cites the following in his biography of Chaucer…
19 November 1802	Tanner	Tanner, Thomas, bishop of Saint-Asaph	Bibliotheca britannico-hibernica, sive de Scriptoribus qui in Anglia, Scotia, et Hiber…	1740	WG cites the following in his biography of Chaucer…
25 November 1802	Cantacuzenus	Barnes, Joshua	The history of that most victorious monarch Edward IIId. King of England and France, a…	1688	Unable to identify title by Cantacuzenus.WG cites …
26 November 1802	G & M Villani	Villani, Giovanni	Croniche di Messer Giovanni Villani: nelle quali si tratta dell'origine di Firenze, & …	1537	Fasolo, Giacomo (editor) Republished with the seco…
1 December 1802	Reeves n	Reeves, John	A history of the English law from the Saxons to the end of the reign of Edward the fir…	1783-1784	(volume 1) and History of the English law from the…
8 December 1802	Gen. Deorum	Boccaccio, Giovanni	Genealogi[a]e deorum gentilium ad Vgonem inclytum Hierusale[m] [et] Cypri regem secund…	1472
10 December 1802	Bale	Bale, John	Scriptorum illustrii Maioris Brytannie quam nunc Angliam & Scotiam vocant: catalogus: …	1557-1558	WG cites the following in his biography of Chaucer…
10 December 1802	Pits	Pits, John	Ioannis Pitsei Angli, S. Theologiae Doctoris … Relationum historicarum de rebus anglic…	1619	Bishop, William (editor, preface) ‘Running title o…
15 December 1802	Dugdale	Dugdale, sir William	Originales, or Historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of t…	1666	OR Dugdale, sir William The baronage of England, o…
15 December 1802	Madox	Madox, Thomas	The history and antiquities of the Exchequer of the kings of England in two periods, t…	1711	Fitzneal, Richard (actual author) WG cites the fol…
16 December 1802	Memoires de Du Guesclin, p. 82-168	Bellier-Duchesnay, Alexandre-Claude	Collection universelle des mémoires particuliers relatifs à l'histoire de France.	1785	Du Cange, Charles Du Fresne (annotator) Joinville,…
21 December 1802	Wicliff	Lewis, John	The history of the life and sufferings of the reverend and learned John Wicliffe, D.D.…	1720	Possibly: OR Gilpin, William The lives of John Wic…
27 December 1802	Fiévée's Letters, p. 106	Fievée, Joseph	Lettres sur l'Angleterre et réflexions sur la philosophie du XVIIIe siècle, par J. Fie…	1802
3 January 1803	Speght	Speght, Thomas (editor)	The workes of our ancient and learned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. In…	1598	Chaucer, Geoffrey Lydgate, John (Siege of Thebes) …
11 January 1803	St Francis	Bonaventure, Saint	La vita del glorioso seraphico pa[t]re messer San Francesco.	1477	In English: Bonaventure, Saint Browne, Anthony Mar…
16 January 1803	Tower, Patent Rolls			1745-1804	WC records receiving a letter from Samuel Ayscough…
17 January 1803	Cotton	Cotton, sir Robert (compiler; attributed to)	An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London, from the reign of King Edw…	1657	Bowyer, William (compiler; more likely) Bowyer, Ro…
20 January 1803	Gower, çala	Gower, John	De confessione amantis.	1532	OR‘Gower' in Biographia Britannica: or, The lives …
21 January 1803	Mss	Harley, Edward, earl of Oxford	Life of Chaucer	1803-01	WG visits the British Museum on -21. According to …
26 January 1803	Caxton, &c	Chaucer, Geoffrey	Canterbury tales.	1477-8	first printed by Caxton and in an improved second …
28 January 1803	Anstis, &c.	Anstis, John (editor)	The Register of the most noble Order of the Garter, from its cover in black velvet, us…	1724	Possibly: Aldrich, Robert (compiler) WG's biograph…
31 January 1803	Rymer's MSS	Rymer, Thomas	Foedera, conventiones, literae, et cujuscunque, generis acta publica, inter reges Angl…	1615	Possibly:Papers of Thomas Rymer in a collection re…
8 February 1803	Mongitore	Mongitore, Antonio	Bibliotheca sicula sive de scriptoribus siculis qui tum vetera, tun recentiora saecula…	1707-1714	(2 volumes) WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Mongit…
8 February 1803	& Vossius	Vossius, Gerardus Joannes	Gerardi Joannis Vossii De historicis latinis libri tres.	1627	WG's biography of Chaucer cites:G.J. Vossius De Hi…
10 February 1803	Avesbury	Robert, of Avesbury	Roberti de Avesbury Historia de mirabilibus gestis Eduardi III. Accedunt, (1.) Libri S…	1720	WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Avesbury, De Mirab…
10 February 1803	& Hector Boethius	Boethius, Hector	Scotorum historiae: a prima gentis origine, cum aliarum & rerum & gentium illustration…	1526	Possibly: WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Hector B…
11 February 1803	Villani	Villani, Giovanni	Croniche di Messer Giovanni Villani: nelle quali si tratta dell'origine di Firenze, & …	1802-11	WG could be reading the same item that he reads on…
11 February 1803	& Duchesne	du Chesne, André	Histoire generale, d'Angleterre, d'Escosse, et d'Irlande, contenant les choses memorab…	1614	WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Duchesne, Histoire…
12 February 1803	Regnier	Régnier, Mathurin	Oeuvres de Régnier, … Nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée.	1780	Unable to identify specific work by Regnier. WG ma…
14 February 1803	Fabian	Fabyan, Robert	Fabyan's cronycle newly prynted, wyth the cronycle, actes, and dedes done in the tyme …	1533	Most likely: In his biography of Chaucer, WG refer…
15 February 1803	duchess Blanche		Inquisitio post Mortem	1804	It is likely that WG is consulting certain documen…
15 February 1803	Herald's College, Townsend	College of Arms (of Great Britain)	A general registry of births, kept at the Heralds Office on St. Bennet's Hill near St.…	1747	Possibly WG refers to: OR personally consults: Tow…
15 February 1803	& Dallaway	James Dallaway (editor)	The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague: includes her corresponde…	1803	Montague, Mary Wortley, Lady (5 volumes)
17 February 1803	Bavaria		Inquisitio post Mortem	1804	WG may be referring to the discrepancy he discover…
22 February 1803	Aventinus	Aventinus, Johannes	Rudimenta grammaticae		Probably: Unable to identify specific work; Aventi…
16 March 1803	Statutes, &c	Ashmole, Elias	The institution, laws & ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter. Collected an…	1672	Hollar, Wenceslaus Sherwin, William WG's biography…
17 March 1803	Petrarca	Petrarca, Francesco	Epistolae familiares	1492	Possibly: Manilius, Sebastianus (editor) . WG's bi…
24 March 1803	House of Fame	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The house of fame.	1483	printed by William Caxton
24 March 1803	Pope, do.	Pope, Alexander	The temple of fame: a vision.	1715
20 April 1803	Rymer, çala	Rymer, Thomas	The tragedies of the last age, consider'd and examin'd by the practice of the ancients…	1384	Could be item #933 or # : 1678 WG's sale catalog l…
29 April 1803	Burke	Burke, Edmund	Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies i…	1790	Probably: WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Edmund B…
4 May 1803	Walsingham	Walsingham, Thomas	Historia brevis Thomae Walsingham, ab Edwardo primo, ad Henricum quintum.	1574	WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Walsingham, Histor…
5 May 1803	& M U History				Unable to identify.
18 May 1803	Acad. des Inscriptions	Grosley, Pierre Jean	Memoires de l'Academie des sciences, inscriptions, belles lettres, [b]eaux arts, &c., …	1744	Lefèvre, André WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Mem…
19 May 1803	Good Women	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The workes of Geoffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in …	1532	Thynne, William (editor) ‘The legende of good wome…
20 May 1803	Alexander the Great				Unable to identify specific work.
6 June 1803	Pasquier	Pasquier, Étienne	Des recherches de la France, livre premier. Plus, un pourparler du prince. Le tout par…	1560	. WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Pasquier, Recher…
10 June 1803	Caylus	Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de			Possibly: Unable to identify specific work by this…
17 June 1803	Mariana	Mariana, Ioannes	Historia de rebus Hispaniae libri XX.	1592	WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Mariana, De Rebus …
24 June 1803	Moreri	Moreri, Louis	Le grand dictionnaire historique, ou Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sainte et profan…	1674	WG's biography of Chaucer cites: Moreri, Dictionna…
27 June 1803	Gough	Gough, Richard	Sepulchral monuments in Great Britain: applied to illustrate the history of families, …	1786-1796	(2 volumes in 3) WG's biography of Chaucer cites:G…
28 June 1803	Ellis	Ellis, George (editor)	Specimens of the early English poets.	1790	ORGodwin may be meeting Ellis at the British Museu…
28 June 1803	& Ritson	Ritson, Joseph	Cursory criticisms on the edition of Shakespeare published by Edward Malone.	1792	OR Ritson, Joseph (published anonymously) Bibliogr…
29 June 1803	Spelman	Spelman, Henry, Sir	Concilia, decreta, leges, constitutiones, in re ecclesiarum orbis Britannici. Viz. Pam…	1801-04	Godwin may be consulting Spelman on Tenures, read …
29 June 1803	& Wake				Unable to identify.
6 July 1803	Pierce Plowman	Langland, William	The vision of Pierce Plowman, now fyrste imprynted by Roberte Crowley, dwellyng in Ely…	1550	1st ed. London: Roberte Crowley‘The date 1505, evi…
8 July 1803	Throsby	Throsby, John	Select views in Leicestershire, from original drawings: containing seats of the nobili…	1789	AND/OR Throsby, John The supplementary volume to t…
22 August 1803	Gregory Blunt, çala	Blunt, Gregory	Six more letters to Granville Sharp, Esq. on his remarks upon the use of the article i…	1803
24 August 1803	Parl. History		Parliamentary or constitutional history of England; being a faithful account of all th…	1751-61
1 September 1803	Hall	Hall, Joseph	Virgidemiarum: sixe bookes: First three bookes, of toothlesse satyrs; the three last b…	1597	Unable to identify specific work.WG's sale catalog…
1 September 1803	& Speed	Speed, John	The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Norm…	1611	WG's sale catalog lists:Speed's Historie of Great …
6 September 1803	Scroop	Wharton, Henry	Life of Chaucer	1405	In his biography of Chaucer, WG refers to Scrope i…
12 September 1803	Read Chaucer, p. 98	Godwin, William	Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the early English poet, including memoirs of his near friend…	1803	WG is reading his manuscript biography of Chaucer,…
15 September 1803	Granger	Granger, James	A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting…	1769	Possibly: A supplement was published in 1774.
13 October 1803	Journal & Newspapers – JOURNAL IS A DWROTE; NEWSPAPERS A DTEXT				Unable to identify specific works.
21 October 1803	Lofft's Tragedy				Unable to identify.
29 October 1803	Belinda, p. 82	Edgeworth, Maria	Belinda. By Maria Edgeworth. In three volumes.	1801
5 November 1803	Belmour, Vol. I	Damer, Anne Seymour	Belmour: a novel in three volumes.	1801
9 November 1803	Catullus, Ep. 1, 2, 3, 4	Catullus, Gaius Valerius (b. 84 B.C.)	Gai Valeri Catulli Veronensis Liber (The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus)	1754	Date unknownWG probably read one of the following …
13 November 1803	Charles II, çala				Unable to identify.
14 November 1803	Notes for C Burnet, çala. – IGNORE – LEAVE AS DWROTE	Burnet, Gilbert	Bishop Burnet's history of his own time. v. 1 From the restoration of King Charles II,…	1803-11	Unable to identify. ^ 975. Burnet, çala -15Possibl…
25 November 1803	Beggar Girl, p.60	Bennett, Mrs.	The beggar girl and her benefactors. In seven volumes. By Mrs. Bennett, …	1797
27 November 1803	Lobenstein, p. 33				Unable to identify.
27 November 1803	Walpoliana, Vol. I	Walpole, Horace	Walpoliana.	1799	Pinkerton, John (editor) WG's sale catalog lists:W…
1 December 1803	Vavasor Griffiths, çala				Unable to identify.
7 January 1804	Misson, 60 pp.	Misson, François Maximilien	Meslange de litérature historique & critique, sur tout ce qui regarde l'état extraordi…	1707
8 January 1804	Florence, çala	Sale, George (compiler)	The modern part of an universal history, from the earliest account of time. Compiled f…	1801-01	Possibly the following, first recorded on -07: 175…
14 January 1804	Adams on Republics, Vol. II, p. 64	Adams, John	A defence of the constitutions of government of the United States of America.	1787-1788	(3 volumes) The political history of the Italian r…
22 January 1804	Read to M J – IGNORE – LEAVE AS DWROTE	Godwin, William	Faulkener, A Tragedy	1807	WG is probably reading his mss ‘Camilla,' which he…
1 February 1804	read to Coleridge – IGNORE – LEAVE AS DWROTE	Godwin, William	Faulkener, A Tragedy	1807	WG is probably reading his mss ‘Camilla,' which he…
4 February 1804	Rousseau, Tom. II, p. 180-262	Rousseau, Jean Jacques	Les confessions de J.-J. Rousseau	1801-07	Probably Rousseau's Confessions, read on -20:There…
5 March 1804	Petite Ville	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes, recuillies et pu…	1761	Le faux titre porte: ‘Julie, ou la Nouvelle Hélois…
5 March 1804	& Udolphe	Radcliffe, Ann	Les mystères d'Udolphe, par Anne Radcliffe. Traduit d'anglais sur la 3e édition.	1797	Possibly: Desprès, Jean-Baptiste-Denis (translator…
6 March 1804	Duhautcours, acts 1, 2, 3	Picard, Louis Benoît	Duhautcours, ou Le contrat d'union. Comedie en prose et en cinq actes, represéntée pou…	1801	Chéron, François
12 March 1804	Paine's Letters	Paine, Thomas	Letters, by the author of Common sense. First, to the Earl of Shelburne, now Marquis o…	1804-03	There are several publications grouping a number o…
22 March 1804	Catullus, Peleus, vs100	Catullus, Gaius Valerius (b. 84 B.C.)	Gai Valeri Catulli Veronensis Liber (The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus)	1754	‘poem LXIV' in Date unknownWG probably read one of…
26 March 1804	Burning Pestle	Beaumont, Francis	The knight of the burning pestle. A comedy in five acts, in prose and verse, by F. Bea…	1613	Fletcher, John
31 March 1804	Martial, Ep. 1-13	Martialis, Marcus Valerius (b. circa 40 A.D.)	Epigrammata (Epigrams)	1661	80-96 A.D.WG's sale catalog lists:Martialis Epigra…
31 March 1804	Cowley, çala	Cowley, Abraham	The Mistress, or Seuerall copies of love-verses. Written by Mr. A. Cowley.	1647	Unable to identify the specific work WG is reading…
31 March 1804	recollections of Bacon, Jonson & Montaigne				Unable to identify.
3 April 1804	& Marvel, çala	Marvell, Andrew	The rehearsal transpos'd: or, Animadversions upon a late book, intituled, A preface sh…	1672	Unable to identify the specific work WG is reading…
4 April 1804	Montaigne, Ess. 1, 2, 3	Michel de Montaigne	Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, chevalier de l'Ordre du Roy, & Gentil …	1580	WG's sale catalog lists:Montaigne, ses Essais, enr…
6 April 1804	Clarendon, p. 89	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of	The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641. With t…	1702-4	th of May, in the year 1660. Written by the Right …
17 April 1804	Hydriotaphia, Chap. 1 & 2	Browne, Thomas	Hydriotaphia, wine-buriall, or a Discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in No…	1658	WG's sale catalog lists:Browne's (Sir Tho.) Hydrio…
27 April 1804	Vulgar Errors, Chap. 1, 2	Battell, Ralph	Vulgar errors in divinity removed	1683	. OR Author unknown Vulgar errors. 1784 (A defence…
4 May 1804	D'Aunois, çala	Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, comtesse d'	Relation d'un voyage d'Espagne: ouest exactement decrit l'estat de la cour de ce royau…	1664	Godwin may have read any of a long list of publica…
7 May 1804	Milton, çala	Milton, John	Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, compos'd at several times: printed b…	1645	WG may have been reading from one of the following…
11 May 1804	Hall's Remonstrance	Hall, Joseph	An humble remonstrance to the High Covrt of Parliament, written by Joseph Hall.	1640
12 May 1804	Milton, El. 1, 2, 3	Milton, John		1626	‘Elegia prima ad Carolum Diodatum' (To Charles Dio…
12 May 1804	Of Reformation	Milton, John	Of reformation touching church-discipline in England: and the causes that hitherto hav…	1641	WG's sale catalog lists:Milton on Reformation, tou…
15 May 1804	Milton, Reason of Church Govt, chap. 1, 2	Milton, John	The reason of church-governement urg'd against prelaty. By Mr. John Milton. In two boo…	1641	WG's sale catalog lists:Milton Reason of Church Go…
20 May 1804	Milton, Sylvæ, 6	Milton, John		1804-05	Probably: ‘Sylvanum liber.'WG may have read this i…
20 May 1804	Mansus	Milton, John	Joannis Miltoni Londinensis poemata. Quorum pleraque intra annum aestatis …	1645	‘Mansus' in
22 May 1804	Epitaphium Damonis, &c.	Milton, John	Epitaphium Damonis.	1638	(commemorates Charles Diodati, d. ) 1639
26 May 1804	Milton, Remonstrant, §. 1, 2	Milton, John	Animadversions upon the Remonstrants defence against Smectymnuus.	1641	WG's sale catalog lists:Milton on Prelatical Episc…
27 May 1804	Excursion, çala			1728	Unable to identify specific work. WG may have read…
28 May 1804	Sopha, p. 102	Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de	Le sopha, conte moral.	1742	In English: Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Th…
28 May 1804	Milton, Def. Secunda, çala	Milton, John	Joannis Miltoni Angli Pro populo Anglicano defensio secunda. Contra infamem libellum a…	1654	WG's sale catalog lists:Milton's (J.) Works, 2 vol…
8 June 1804	Number-Nip, p. 142	Bedford, William (translator)	Popular tales of the Germans.	1791	‘Elfin freaks; or, The seven legends of Number-Nip…
10 June 1804	Milton, Apology, p. 11	Milton, John	An apology against a pamphlet call'd A modest confutation of the Animadversions upon t…	1742	WG's sale catalog lists:Milton's (J.) Works, 2 vol…
11 June 1804	Robin Hood, p. 3	Godwin, Mary Jane (editor)	Tabart's improved edition of Robin Hood: with coloured plates.	1804	Probably:
19 June 1804	Aristonous	Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe	Les avantures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse.	1699-1700	Possibly: Nouv. ed. divisée en dix livres. S. l. s…
19 June 1804	Milton, Def. pro Se, p. 6	Milton, John	Joannis Miltoni Angli Pro se defensio contra Alexandrum Morum Ecclesiasten, libelli fa…	1655	WG's sale catalog lists:Milton's (J.) Works, 2 vol…
25 June 1804	Coxe's Switzerland, p. 70	Coxe, William	Sketches of the natural, civil, and political state of Swisserland: in a series of let…	1779	OR Coxe, William Travels in Switzerland. In a seri…
26 June 1804	Popular Tales, p. 40	Bedford, William (translator)	Popular tales of the Germans.	1791	(2 volumes)
28 June 1804	Royal Indisposition, pp. 112	Author unknown	Some particulars of the royal indisposition of 1788-1789, and of its effects upon illu…	1804
3 July 1804	Milton, Way to Commonwealth, pp. 10	Milton, John	The readie & easie way to establish a free commonwealth, and the excellence therof com…	1660	WG's sale catalog lists:Milton's (J.) Works, 2 vol…
4 July 1804	History of Independency, çala	Walker, Clement	Anarchia anglicana, or, The history of independency, by Theodorux Verax.	1648	(2 volumes)
6 July 1804	Ludlow, p. 350	Ludlow, Edmund	Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Esq: Lieutenant General of the Horse … and a Member of the P…	1698-9	Third volume issued in 1699.WG's sale catalog list…
12 July 1804	Love Stratagems, act 1 & 2	Author unknown	The stratagems of love. A comic opera. As it is performed on the Theatre in Smock-Alle…	1762
12 July 1804	Whitlocke, çala	Whitelocke, Bulstrode	A journal of the Swedish ambassy, in the years M.DC.LIII and M.DC.LIV from the commonw…	1772	Morton, Charles (editor) OR Whitelocke, Bulstrode …
15 July 1804	Fairfax, B. I	Fairfax, Thomas, Baron Fairfax	Short Memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax. Written by himself.	1699	Possibly: WG cites Fairfax's Memorials in his Hist…
15 July 1804	Clarendon, Life, p. 62	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of	The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England: Begun in the year 1641. With t…	1702-1759	th of May, in the year 1660 . (4 volumes) The four…
19 July 1804	Thiebault, Vol. I, çala				Unable to identify specific work read by WG.
23 July 1804	Arabian Nights, p. 46.	Galland, Antoine	Arabian nights entertainments consisting of one thousand stories, told by the sultanes…	1706	.
20 August 1804	Cutter of C S, acts 1, 2, 3	Cowley, Abraham	Cutter of Coleman-street: a comedy: the scene London, in the year 1568.	1663
3 September 1804	Pichegru	Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton de La Martinière	Moreau et Pichegru au 18 fructidor an V; suivi de la conjuration de ce dernier, pendan…	1804	Probably the following author: Unable to identify …
3 September 1804	& La Rive, çala				Unable to identify.
8 September 1804	Essay on Criticism	Pope, Alexander	An essay on criticism	1711	.
12 September 1804	Love's Riddle, acts 1, 2, 3	Cowley, Abraham	Loves riddle. A pastorall comaedie; written, at the time of his being King's scholler …	1638
14 September 1804	Barth. Fair, act 1	Jonson, Ben	Bartholomew Fair	1631	in The workes of Benjamin Jonson: the second volum…
16 September 1804	New Inn, acts 1 & 2	Jonson, Ben	The neuu inne, or, The light heart: a comoedy, as it was neuer acted, but most neglige…	1631	. WG's sale catalog lists:Jonson's (Ben) Plays, im…
20 September 1804	Read Beaumont, accurante Ht.				Unable to identify.
21 September 1804	Bobadil, acts 1, 2, 3	Jonson, Ben	Every man in his humor. As it hath beene sundry times publickly acted by the right Hon…	1601	Bobadil is a character in Ben Jonson's Every man i…
24 September 1804	Read to Curran – IGNORE, lEAVE AS DWROTE	Godwin, William	Faulkener, A Tragedy	1804-09	WG is probably reading his manuscript ‘Camilla,' w…
29 September 1804	Sejanus, act 1	Jonson, Ben	Seianus his fall. Written by Ben: Jonson.	1605
30 September 1804	Devil is an Ass, act 1	Jonson, Ben	The devil is an ass	1631	in The workes of Benjamin Jonson: the second volum…
7 October 1804	Cynthia's Revels, act 1	Jonson, Ben	The fountaine of selfe-loue. Or Tynthias reuels. As it hath been sundry times priuatel…	1601
7 October 1804	Masques, çala	Jonson, Ben	The workes of Benjamin Jonson	1616	Unable to identify specific masques read by WG. ‘M…
8 October 1804	Tale of a Tub	Jonson, Ben	The workes of Benjamin Jonson	1640-1641	in (3rd volume) WG's sale catalog lists:Jonson's (…
10 October 1804	Every Man out of his Humour, acts 1, 2	Jonson, Ben	Every man out of his humour. A comicall satyre acted in the yeere 1599, by the then Lo…	1616	in The workes of Benjamin Jonson (1st volume) WG's…
11 October 1804	Macilente, acts 3, 4	Jonson, Ben	Every man out of his humour. A comicall satyre acted in the yeere 1599, by the then Lo…	1616	Macilente is a character in: in The workes of Benj…
14 October 1804	Poetaster, acts 1, 2, 3	Jonson, Ben	Poetaster; or, The arraignment: as it hath been sundry times priuately acted in the Bl…	1602
17 October 1804	Catiline, act 1	Jonson, Ben	Catiline his conspiracy. Written by Ben: Iohnson.	1611
19 October 1804	Magnetic Lady, act 1	Jonson, Ben	The magnetick lady	1640-1641	in The workes of Benjamin Jonson (3rd volume) WG's…
19 October 1804	Rivals, çala	Sheridan, Richard Brinsley	The rivals, a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden.	1775
24 October 1804	Jealous Wife, çala	Colman, George, elder	The jealous wife, a comedy in five acts.	1761
27 October 1804	Louis XIV, çala	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Le siècle de Louis XIV, publié par M. de Francheville, etc	1751	Probably: . (2 volumes)
29 October 1804	Staple of News, acts 1, 2	Jonson, Ben	The staple of newes. A comedie acted in the yeare 1625. By his maiesties servants	1631	in The workes of Benjamin Jonson, the second volum…
1 November 1804	Case is Altered, act 1	Jonson, Ben	Ben Ionson, his Case is altered. As it hath beene sundry times acted by the children o…	1609
2 November 1804	Encyclopédie	Diderot, Denis	Encyclopédie; ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.	1750	Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' Par une societé de gens …
8 November 1804	Anderson	Anderson, Robert (editor)	The works of the British poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical.	1795	Possibly: (13 volumes) Conjecture based on WG's cu…
17 November 1804	Life of Brown, pp. 120				Unable to identify.
19 November 1804	Volpone, act 1	Jonson, Ben	Volpone; or, The foxe	1607	.
19 November 1804	Jonson	Jonson, Ben	Volpone	1616	Unable to identify specific work read by WG. Since…
19 November 1804	& Donne, çala	Donne, John	Poems by J.D. With elegies on the authors death.	1633	Possibly: WG's sale catalog lists:Donne's (J.) Poe…
20 November 1804	Donne, Anniversaries	Donne, John	The first anniversarie:An anatomy of the world.	1611	and The second anniversarie: Of the progess of the…
21 November 1804	Donne, Eleg. 1-6	Donne, John	Elegies	1633	in Poems by J.D. With elegies on the authors death…
24 November 1804	Life of Donne	Walton, Isaac	The life of John Donne, Dr. in divinity, and late dean of Saint Pauls Church, London.	1658	OR Walton, Isaac The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir …
25 November 1804	Life of Wotton	Walton, Isaac	The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert.…	1670
27 November 1804	All in the Wrong	Murphy, Arthur	All in the wrong: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.	1761
29 November 1804	Headfort's Trial, pp. 95	No author	A report of the trial on an action for damages, brought by the Reverend Charles Massy …	1804	‘At the head of the title: By authority. Ten thous…
30 November 1804	January & May, &c				Unable to identify.
7 December 1804	[Perkin Warbeck.]	Gainsford, Thomas	The true and wonderfull history of Perkin Warbeck, proclaiming himself Richard the fou…	1618	. also known as History of Perkin Warbeck OR Ford,…
28 December 1804	Cleone	Dodsley, Robert	Cleone, a tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden.	1754
30 December 1804	Revenge, acts 3, 4, 5	Young, Edward	The Revenge, a tragedy. Adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the The…	1792	OR Chatterton, Thomas The Revenge, a burletta. Act…
1 January 1805	Twin Rivals, act 1, 2, 3	Farquhar, George	The twin-rivals. A comedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal by Her Majesty's servants	1703	. Written by Mr. Farquhar.
3 January 1805	Impertinent Curiosity				Unable to identify.
5 January 1805	Wonder, act 1, 2, 3	Susanna Centlivre	The wonder: A woman keeps a secret.	1714	Probably:
7 January 1805	Don Carlos	Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von	Dom Karlos, infant von Spanien.	1787	Translated as: Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedric…
17 January 1805	St Phale, p. 64	Saint-Phale, Mademoiselle de	The history of Madamoiselle de St. Phale, giving a full account of the miraculous conv…	1690	Star, B.
29 January 1805	St Forlaix, Vol. I, II	Framéry, Nicolas Étienne	Memoirs of the Marquis de St. Forlaix. Translated from the French of Mons. Framery. By…	1770	Mrs. Brooke (translator) In French: Framéry, Nicol…
6 February 1805	Loix Criminelles	Muyart de Vouglans	Les loix criminelles de France dans leur ordre naturel, dédiées au Roi.	1780	OR Boucher d'Argis, André Jean Observations sur le…
9 February 1805	Ad. Mowbray, p. 106	Opie, Amelia Alderson	Adeline Mowbray, or The mother and daughter: a tale. By Mrs. Opie.	1805	(3 volumes)
18 February 1805	Modern Griselda, p. 66	Edgeworth, Maria	The modern Griselda. A tale.	1805
19 February 1805	Alfarache, p. 24	Alemán, Mateo	Primera parte de la vida del picaro Gvzman de Alfarache.	1599	1604 2nd part?In English: Alemán, Mateo Mabbe, Jam…
24 February 1805		Godwin, William	Faulkener, A Tragedy	1805	Possibly WG reads act 5 of his manuscript play ‘Ca…
11 March 1805	Jealous Lovers, act 1	Randolph, Thomas	The jealous lovers. A comedie presented to their gracious Majesties at Cambridge, by t…	1632
27 March 1805	Life of Inchbald, Vol. I				Unable to identify.
4 April 1805	Southey, Madoc	Southey, Robert	Madoc.	1805
4 April 1805	Hayley	Milton, John	The poetical works of John Milton. With a life of the author, by William Hayley. Vol. …	1794-7	Hayley, John (3 volumes) WG's sale catalog lists:H…
6 April 1805	Muses' Looking Glass, acts 1, 2, 3	Randolph, Thomas	Poems, with the Muses looking-glass: and Amyntas	1638	.
9 April 1805	Cæsar, Druides	Caesar, C. Julius	de Bello Gallico (The Gallic War)		51 B.C.Book VI, chapters 13, 14, 16 discuss the Dr…
14 April 1805	Davies	Davies, Sir John	A discoverie of the true causes why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued nor brought vnd…	1612	Unable to identify specific work read by WG. Possi…
14 April 1805	Owen, &c; çala				Unable to identify.
16 April 1805	& Maurice, çala	Maurice, comte de Saxe	Reveries, or, Memoirs upon the art of war. Trans. by Sir William Fawcett.	1794-12	Unable to identify specific work read by WG. Possi…
17 April 1805	Turner, Vindication, p. 150	Turner, John	A vindication of the rights and privileges of the Christian church. … In answer to a l…	1707	Of John Turner's many ‘vindications,' this title m…
18 April 1805	Robertson, India, pp. 140	Robertson, William	An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India: a…	1741	Probably:
18 April 1805	Bailly, p. 90	Bailly, Jean Sylvain Bailly	Lettres sur l'origine des sciences, et sur celle des peuples de l'Asie: Adressées à m.…	1797-06	Possibly the following work first recorded on -11:…
22 April 1805	Strabo Diodorus	Strabo (b. 64 or 63 B.C.)	The Geography of Strabo.		probably 7 B.C.
22 April 1805	Mela	Mela, Pomponius	Pomponii Melae Cosmographia.	1471
22 April 1805	Pliny, çala	Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder, 23-79 A.B.)	Plinii Naturalis Historia (Pliny's Natural History)		Possibly: completed 77 A.D.OR Gaius Plinius Caecil…
26 April 1805	Agricola, §.1-10	Tacitus, Cornelius	De Vita Iulii Agricolae (The Life of Julius Agricola)	1805	comp. 97-98 A.D.WG's sale catalog lists:Taciti Ope…
5 May 1805	Mably	Mably, Gabriel Bonnot, abbé de	Observations sur les Romains.	1796-02	Probably the following work by Mably first recorde…
6 May 1805	Whitaker, p. 212	Whitaker, John	The genuine history of the Britons asserted. In a full and candid refutation of Mr. Ma…	1772	Probably: Conjecture based on WG's writing a histo…
13 May 1805	Annual Review, çala	Aikin, Arthur (editor)	The annual review and history of literature.	1802-1808	Also known as The annual review, or, Register of l…
11 June 1805	History of the Plague	Defoe, Daniel	The history of the great plague in London, in the year 1665. … By a citizen, who lived the whole …	1754	First published in 1722 as The journal of the plag…
23 June 1805	Chapman	Homer	Homer's Odysses, translated according to ye Greeke by Geo. Chapman.	1612	Probably: Chapman, George (translator) Chapman's O…
23 June 1805	Warton, &c, çala	Warton, Thomas	The history of English poetry from the close of the eleventh to the commencement of th…	1774-1781	Probably one of the following: (3 volumes) The thi…
4 July 1805	Barclay, &c	Barclay, John	Ioannis Barclaii Argenis	1621	. In English: Barclay, John LeGrys, Sir Robert (tr…
7 July 1805	Cowley, Plantarum, vs. 200	Cowley, Abraham	Plantarum libri duo …	1662	WG's sale catalog lists:Cowley's (Abr.) Mistress, …
8 July 1805	Youthful Worthies				Unable to identify.
8 July 1805	& Jane Grey, çala	Godwin, William	Life of Lady Jane Grey, and of Lord Guildford Dudley, her hasband: this young lady at …	1806	Probably:
18 July 1805	Pope, çala	Pope, Alexander	The works of Alexander Pope Esq.: in nine volumes complete.	1751	Possibly WG is reading here and there in a collect…
5 August 1805	Epicene, acts 1, 2, 3	Jonson, Ben	Epicoene, or The silent woman	1616	in The workes of Beniamin Jonson. (1st volume) WG'…
9 August 1805	Alchemist, act 1	Jonson, Ben	The Alchemist. Written by Ben. Ionson.	1612
10 August 1805	Waller, çala	Waller, Edmund	Poems, &c. written by Ed. Waller of Beckonsfield Esquire: lately a member of the Honou…	1645	OR Waller, William Vindication of the character an…
18 August 1805	Dryden, çala	Dryden, John	The critical and miscellaneous prose works of John Dryden: now first collected: with n…	1800-06	Possibly the following work read by WG on -23:See …
21 August 1805	Chapman, Iliad, B I/2	Homer	The Iliads of Homer, prince of poets. Neuer before in any languag truly translated. Wi…	1611	Chapman, George (translator) (Seven books were pub…
23 August 1805	Killed with Kindness	Heywood, Thomas	A woman killed with kindness.	1607
29 August 1805	Bld. – IGNORE, NO ACTION REQUIRED				Unable to identify.
29 August 1805	Harry, çala	Edgeworth, Richard Lovell	Harry and Lucy. A tale for instruction and amusement of youth.	1805	Possibly: OR Edgeworth, Maria (attributed to) Harr…
2 September 1805	Drayton, Numphidia	Drayton, Michael	The works of Michael Drayton: … containing 1. The battle of Agincourt. II. The barons …	1748	The earliest collection of Drayton's works is: Poe…
2 September 1805	Boileau, Reflexions	Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas	Oeuvres diverse du sieur D***. Avec le Traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le dis…	1694-1698	Longinus André Dacier Charles Rollin Nouv. ed. rev…
5 September 1805	Quarles, çala	Quarles, Francis	Divine poems: The history of Jonah, Ester, Job, Sions sonnets, elegies …	1630	WG's sale catalog lists:Quarles' (F.) Divine Poems…
14 September 1805	J C Scaligeri Vita	Scaliger, Joseph-Juste	Josephi Scaligari Iul. Caes. F. Epistola De vetustate et splendore gentis scaligerae, …	1594	Scaliger, Julius Caesar Van der Does, Jan (le fils…
16 September 1805	Widow's Tears, act 1	Chapman, George	The widowwes teares: a comedie. As it was often presented in the blacke and white Frie…	1612	Probably: Conjecture based on WG's reading of othe…
18 September 1805	Eastward Hoe, act 1, 2	Chapman, George	Eastward Hoe. As it was played in the Black-friers. By the Children of her Maiesties R…	1605	Jonson, Ben Marston, John
23 September 1805	Malcontent, act. 1	Marston, John	The malcontent. By Iohn Marston.	1604
29 September 1805	Perdue, p. 147	Holcroft, Thomas	Memoirs of Bryan Perdue, a novel.	1805	(3 volumes)
1 November 1805	Read to M J	Godwin, William	Faulkener, A Tragedy	1807	Probably WG reading his revision of ‘Camilla.' ‘Ca…
4 November 1805	Newspapers				Unable to identify.
12 November 1805	Ballard, çala			1698-1754	Unable to identify.Possibly Thomas Ballard (fl. ),…
27 November 1805	Arcadia, p. 11	Sidney, Sir Philip	The countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, written by Sir Philippe Sidnei.	1590	Possibly:
4 December 1805	Life of Burns, p. 96	Burns, Robert	The complete works of Robert Burns, containing his poems, songs, and correspondence. I…	1786	Unable to identify the specific biography of Burns…
26 December 1805	Sad Shepherd	Jonson, Ben	The sad shepherd	1641	in The workes of Benjamin Jonson, 3 rd volume
27 December 1805	Eutropius, w. C C, 25 days	Eutropius (4	Eutropii Historia Romanae breviarum ab urbe condita usq		th century) (A breviary of Roman history from the …
10 January 1806	Cumberland, p. 115	Cumberland, Richard	Memoirs of Richard Cumberland	1806	. Conjecture based on match between number of page…
23 January 1806	Morland, p. 72	Morland, Sir Samuel	The history of the evangelical churches of the valleys of Piemont: Containing a most e…	1658	Possibly: WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:M…
31 January 1806	Sleeper Awake, pp. 65				Unable to identify.
4 February 1806	Leonora, p. 93	Edgeworth, Maria	Leonora	1806	.
8 February 1806	Cromwel, çala	Author unknown	The life of Oliver Cromwel, L. Protector of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and…	1724	Although earlier biographies of Cromwell were publ…
25 February 1806	Hesiod, çala	Hesiod	Theogony.		(8th-7th century B.C.) or Works and days. date unk…
26 February 1806	Cochrane Johnson, p. 50	Barthélémi, Jean Jaques		1605	Unable to identify. . Anacharasis, 35 pp. 1806-03-…
10 March 1806	Cicero de Natura Deorum, c. 8	Cicero, Marcus Tullius	De Natura Deorum (On the nature of the gods)	1607	written c. 45 B.C. . Barthelemi, çala 1806-03-11 B…
19 March 1806	Manor House, p. 120	Smith, Charlotte Turner	The old manor house. A novel, in four volumes. By Charlotte Smith.	1793
20 March 1806	Marmontel, p. 86	Marmontel, Jean François	Nouveaux contes moraux.	1792	The first edition of Contes Moraux ( 1761) was pub…
30 March 1806	Catalogue, H S				Unable to identify.
12 April 1806	Patch's Trial, pp. 76	Great Britain. Court of Exchequer	The trial of Richard Patch for the wilful murder of Mr. Isaac Blight, on the 23d of Se…	1806	Taken in short hand by Blanchard and Ramsey.Also s…
13 April 1806	Warwick, p. 134	Warwick, Sir Philip	Memoirs of the reign of King Charles I. … Together with a continuation to the happy re…	1701	?WG's sale catalog lists:Warwick's (Sir P.) Memoir…
26 April 1806	P Knight, p. 34	Knight, Richard Payne	A monody, occasioned by the death of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox …: dedicated to …	1806	Since this is WG's only entry in this year for Ric…
28 April 1806	Raleigh, çala	Raleigh, Sir Walter	The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, knt.	1805	Cayley, junior, Arthur OR The works of Sir Walter …
12 May 1806	Mutabilitie, C. I	Spenser, Edmund	The faerie queene: disposed into XII books, fashioning twelue morall vertues.	1609	The Mutability Cantos of Book VII were first publi…
29 May 1806	Spartan Dame, acts 1 & 2	Southerne, Thomas	The Spartan dame. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, by His…	1719
30 May 1806	Edgworth, Moral Tales, çala	Edgeworth, Maria	Moral tales for young people. By Maria Edgeworth.	1802	(3 volumes)
5 June 1806	Shelton's D Quixote, p. 46	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	The history of the valorovs and wittie-knight-errant, Don-Qvixote, of the Mancha.	1612	Shelton, Thomas (translator)
17 June 1806	Newspapers.				Unable to identify.
3 August 1806	Dermody, Vol. I	Raymond, James Grant	The life of Thomas Dermody: interspersed with pieces of original poetry, many exhibiti…	1806	This appears to be the only two-volume work by or …
7 August 1806	Buncle, Vol. I	Amory, Thomas	The life of John Buncle, Esq: containing various observations and reflections, made in…	1756	. (2 volumes)
18 August 1806	Psyche	Moliére, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin	Psiche, tragedie-ballet.	1793-09	Possibly the following work, first recorded on -19…
29 August 1806	Paradise Lost, B. I	Milton, John	Paradise lost. A poem written in ten books by John Milton.	1667	quartoOR Milton, John Paradise lost: A poem in twe…
29 August 1806	Wortley M, Vol. I	Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady	The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, including her corresponde…	1803	WG reads vols. I, III, IV, V
3 October 1806	Browne's Pastorals, p. 22	Browne, William	Britannia's pastorals.	1613	(Book I); 1616 (Book II); 1625 (both books)WG prob…
2 October 1806	Dutens, Vol. I	Dutens, L.	Memoires d'un voyer qui se repose.	1806-10	-2Possibly: (3 volumes) 1807 3rd edition In Englis…
3 November 1806	Last Minstrel, C. I, II, III	Scott, Sir Walter	The lay of the last minstrel.	1804
25 November 1806	Macklin, çala	Cooke, William	Memoirs of Charles, comedian; with the dramatic characters, manners, anecdotes, &c. of…	1804	Possibly: Another edition was published in 1806.Co…
1 December 1806	Shakespear Tales, fin.	Lamb, Charles	Tales from Shakespeare: designed for the use of young persons.	1807	Lamb, Mary Mulready, William (illustrator) ‘The te…
8 December 1806	Ath. Ox., &c	Wood, Anthony à	Athenae Oxonienses.	1691
13 December 1806	Newspapers				Unable to identify.
16 December 1806	Richardson on Milton, çala	Richardson, Jonathan	Explanatory notes and remarks on Milton's Paradise lost.	1734	WG's sale catalog lists:Milton: Explanatory notes …
30 December 1806	Mongomery's Poems	Montgomery, James	The wanderer of Switzerland, and other poems.	1806
5 January 1807	Wild Irish Girl, Vol. I	Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan	The wild Irish girl, a national tale.	1806
14 January 1807	Piccolomini, act 1	Schiller, Friedrich	Wallenstein: A Drama in Two Parts … The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein:…	1801	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (translator)
22 January 1807	Wallestein, fin.	Schiller, Friedrich	Wallenstein: A Drama in Two Parts: The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein: …	1800	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (translator)
28 January 1807	Bligh's Voyage, çala	Bligh, William	A narrative of the mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty; and the subsequent voyag…	1790	(first edition)The 1792 edition reads: A voyage to…
4 February 1807	Hudibras, C. I	Butler, Samuel	Hudibras: … Written in the time of the late wars. Corrected and amended with several a…	1684	This is the first edition of the three books publi…
11 February 1807	Jonson's Masks, p. 54	Jonson, Ben	The workes of Beniamin Ionson.	1616	in OR Jonson, Ben in The workes of Benjamin Jonson…
21 February 1807	Edward II, acts 1, 2, 3	Marlowe, Christopher	Edward the second. The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, K…	1594	Possibly:
23 February 1807	Mustapha, act 1	Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke (published anonymously)	The tragedy of Mustapha	1609	.
28 February 1807	Gorboduc, act 1	Norton, Thomas	The tragedie of Gorboduc, whereof three actes were wrytten by Thomas Nortone, and the …	1565	Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset
12 March 1807	Campaspe, acts 1, 2	Lyly, John (published anonymously)	A moste excellent comedie of Alexander, Campaspe and Diogenes played beefore the Queen…	1584	(Later editions titled Campaspe.)
16 March 1807	Search, pp. 83	Search, Edward (i.e. Tucker, Abraham)	An abridgement of The light of nature pursued.	1807	Unable to identify with certainty. WG often used ‘…
27 March 1807	Milton	Milton, John	The poetical works of John Milton, … with the principal notes of various commentators,…	1801	Todd, Henry John London: J. Johnson
30 March 1807	Paradise Regd B. I	Milton, John	The poetical works of John Milton, … with the principal notes of various commentators,…	1807-03	Probably the Todd edition recorded on -27: Todd, H…
6 April 1807	Doctrine of Divorce, p. 11	Milton, John	The doctrine and discipline of divorce restored to the good of both sexes, from the bo…	1643
9 April 1807	Spenser, çala	Spenser, Edmund	A view of the state of Ireland, written dialogue-wise betweene Eudoxus and Irenaeus, i…	1633	Possibly WG reads one of the following: OR Spenser…
18 April 1807	Literary History, çala	Sainte-Palaye, M. de La Curne de	The literary history of the troubadours. Containing their lives, extracts from their w…	1779	Possibly: Dobson, Susannah (editor) ; republished …
27 April 1807	Caleb Williams, Vol. I	Godwin, William	Things as They Are; or, the adventures of Caleb Williams. In three volumes.	1794	; 1797
1 May 1807	Spenser's Ireland, p. 60	Spenser, Edmund	A view of the state of Ireland, written dialogue-wise betweene Eudoxus and Irenaeus, i…	1633	WG's sale catalog lists several items by Spenser, …
9 May 1807	Winter in London, p. 77	Surr, T. S. (Skinner, Thomas)	A winter in London, or, sketches of fashion: a novel	1806	. (3 volumes)
12 May 1807	Tooke v. Paul, pp. 22	Tooke, John Horne	A letter to the editor of The Times	1807	. [‘On the political connexion between J. Paul and…
29 May 1807	Faux Dauphin, 2 Vs.	Beauchamp, Alphonse de (published anonymously)	Le faux Dauphin actuellement en France, ou Histoire d'un imposteur, se disant le derni…	1803	(2 volumes)
5 June 1807	& P Pilgrim	Shakespeare, William	The passionate pilgrime. By W. Shakespeare.	1599	Some of the poems are not by Shakespeare (Norton).
6 June 1807	Venus & Adonis	Shakespeare, William	Venus and Adonis.	1593
9 June 1807	Daniel, çala	Daniel, Samuel	Delia. Contayning certaine sonnets: vvith The complaint of Rosamond.	1592	Possibly: This is the earliest printing of Rosamon…
9 June 1807	Jonathas	Ceriziers, René de	Jonathas, ou le Vray ami par le Sr de Ceriziers.	1645	OR Duché de Vancy, Joseph-François Jonathas, tragé…
10 June 1807	Lover's Complaint	Shakespeare, William	Shake-speares Sonnets.	1609	‘A Lover's Complaint' in
11 June 1807	Daniel, Rosamond	Daniel, Samuel	Delia. Contayning certaine sonnets: vvith The complaint of Rosamond.	1592
19 June 1807	Burdet, pp. 5	Burdet, Thomas (editor and publisher)	His Majesties speech to the peers of Scotland; concerning presbyteriall government. Wi…	1646	Possibly one of the following: Charles I, King of …
25 June 1807	Malone, çala	Malone, Edmund	An attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays of Shakespeare were written	1792-07	Possibly the following, first recorded on -30: , i…
30 June 1807	Hazlit, çala	Hazlitt, William	A reply to the essay on population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus. In a series of letters.	1807	Possibly: See 1807-08-01, where WG possibly contin…
1 August 1807	Hazlit to Malthus, p. 118	Hazlitt, William	A reply to the essay on population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus. In a series of letters.	1807
20 August 1807	Paul, pp. 219			1807-05	Unable to identify specific work. Possibly the per…
22 August 1807	Woodland, Vol. 1 & 4	Woodland, Miss M.	Tales for mothers and daughters.	1807	(4 volumes)
1 September 1807	Goldsmith, An. Nature, p. 68	Goldsmith, Oliver	An history of the earth, and animated nature.	1774
4 September 1807	Seneca, cap. 1-10	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	Moral Essays		Probably: [] c. 41-59 A.D.
7 September 1807	Seneca, Prov. cap. 1 & 2	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	L. Annaei Senecae Dialogorum, Liber I: Ad Lucilium, Qvare aliqva incommoda bonis viris…		c. 41-42 A.D.
7 September 1807	Colin Clout	Spenser, Edmund	Colin Clovts come home againe	1595	. London: VVilliam PonsonbieWC
9 September 1807	Spencer, Hymns	Spenser, Edmund	Fowre hymnes.	1596
16 September 1807	Just Italian	D'Avenant, Sir William	The iust Italian.	1630	WG may have read this item in a collection of D'Av…
16 September 1807	Davenant, çala	D'Avenant, Sir William	The works of Sir William D'Avenant: consisting of those which were formerly printed an…	1672	[ ]- 1673 The preceding is the first edition of D'…
18 September 1807	Seneca, De Brevitate, c. 4	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	Ad Pavlinvm: De brevitate vitae (To Paulinus: On the shortness of life)		c. 58-59 A.D.
18 September 1807	Gondibert, C. I, II	D'Avenant, Sir William	Gondibert: an heroick poem	1672	in The works of Sir William D'Avenant: consisting …
19 September 1807	Crispianus				Unable to identify.
22 September 1807	Lamb's Ulysses, p. 124	Lamb, Charles	The adventures of Ulysses.	1808	Printed by T. Davison for the Juvenile Library
29 December 1807	Vertot, Portugal, p. 56	Vertot, Rene Aubert de Vertot, abbe de	The history of the revolution in Portugal, in the year, 1640. Or, An account of their revolt from …	1700	In French: Vertot, Rene Aubert de Vertot, abbe de …
24 January 1808	Goldsmith, p. 89-209	Goldsmith, Oliver	An history of the earth, and animated nature.	1807-09	Unable to identify with certainty. Possibly the fo…
19 February 1808	Lilienwald, pt I				Unable to identify.
21 February 1808	Gibbon, Ch. II	Gibbon, Edward	Critical observations on the sixth book of the Aeneid.	1770	OR Gibbon, Edward The history of the decline and f…
23 February 1808	Bevis	Author unknown	Bevis of Hampton or Beure de Hanstone	1500	Unable to identify with certainty. Possibly the fo…
5 March 1808	Misson, apud Pirates	Johnson, Charles (pseudonym)	General history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the island of …	1726	th edition…. By Captain Charles Johnson. [-28] Vol…
27 March 1808	Apollonius Rhodius, çala	Apollonius Rhodius	Argonautica.		(b. ca. 280 B.C.) date unknown
5 April 1808	Lutrin, C. I	Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas	Oeuvres diverses du sieur D*** avec le Traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le dis…	1674	‘Lutrin, poëme heroique,' in Contents: Satires, I-…
17 April 1808	Betham, çala				Unable to identify.
8 May 1808	Lauder	Laudér, William	An essay on Milton's use and imitation of the moderns in his Paradise lost. With some …	1741	Unable to identify specific work with certainty. T…
8 May 1808	& Wilkes, çala	Wilkes, John	The correspondence of the late John Wilkes: with his friends, printed from the origina…	1805	Unable to identify specific work with certainty. P…
9 May 1808	Yates's Bury	Yates, Richard	An illustration of the monastic history and antiquities of the town and abbey of St. E…	1805
11 May 1808	Sydney	Collins, Arthur (editor)	Letters and memorials of state: in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King Jam…	1808-06	Unable to identify with certainty. Possibly the fo…
11 May 1808	& Howel, çala	Howell, James	Epistolae Ho-Elinae: familiar letters, domestic and forren; divided into six sections,…	1645	WG's sale catalog lists:Howell's (James) Familiar …
19 May 1808	Donne's Letters, çala	Donne, John	Letters to severall persons of honour.	1651	WG's sale catalog lists:Donne (Jo.) Letters to sev…
22 May 1808	Walton's Herbert	Walton, Izaak	The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert.	1670	OR Herbert, George Walton, Izaak The temple. Sacre…
25 May 1808	Corinna, çala	Rochester, John Wilmot	Corinna, or Humane frailty.	1699	London: J. NuttOR Staël, Germaine de Lawler, Denni…
1 June 1808	Donne, Meditations, &c	Donne, John	Deuotions vpon emergent occasions: and seuerall steps in my sicknes: digested into 1. …	1624
5 June 1808	Fox, p. 27{,} fin.			1806	Unable to identify specific title.Probably Charles…
12 June 1808	Suckling, &c.	Suckling, Sir John	The works of Sir John Suckling: containing all his poems, plays, letters &c. Published…	1676	Possibly: Each work in the collection has a separa…
13 June 1808	Carew	Carew, Thomas	Poems, songs, sonnets, together with a masque.	1670	Possibly: : 4th edition revised and enlarged.WG's …
14 June 1808	Sydney papers, çala	Collins, Arthur (editor)	Letters and memorials of state: in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King Jam…	1746	Possibly: Sidney, Henry, Sir Sidney, Philip, Sir S…
25 June 1808	Clarendon, p. 44	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of	The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641. With t…	1702-4	th of May, in the year 1660. Written by the Right …
30 June 1808	Mark Noble, çala	Noble, Mark	The lives of the English regicides.	1798	OR Noble, Mark Memoirs of several persons and fami…
17 July 1808	Tandy, pp. 138	Tandy, James	An appeal to the public, by James Tandy, Esq.; containing a statement of his unjust an…	1807	Conjecture based partly on page numbers and partly…
18 July 1808	Hargrave, p. 182	Hargrave, Francis (editor)	A complete collection of state-trials, and proceedings for high-treason, … the fourth …	1776-81	Unable to identify specific title. Possibly WG is …
24 July 1808	Lamb's Specimens, çala	Lamb, Charles	Specimens of English dramatic poets, who lived about the time of Shakespeare: with not…	1808	WG's sale catalog lists:Lamb's (Charles) Specimens…
25 July 1808	Revenger, act 1, 2	Tourneur, Cyril	The Revenger's Tragaedie. In four acts in prose and verse. By Cyril Tourneur.	1607
27 July 1808	Neal, çala	Neal, Daniel	The history of the Puritans or Protestant non-conformists, from the reformation to the…	1732-38	(4 volumes) WG's sale catalog lists:Neal (Dan.) Hi…
27 July 1808	Baxter, p. 20	Baxter, Richard	Reliquiae Baxterianae: or, Mr. Richard Baxter's narrative of the most memorable passag…	1696	(1 volume in three parts) Variant title: Life of t…
6 August 1808	Semiramis	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	La Tragédie de Sémiramis et quelques autres pièces de littérature	1749	.
9 August 1808	Life of Swift, p. 143	Sheridan, Thomas	The life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. By Thomas Sher…	1801-06	Possibly the following first recorded on -30: 1784…
14 August 1808	Maugraby, pp. 221	Chavis, Denis	Arabian tales; being a continuation of the Arabian nights entertainments. Consisting o…	1792	Cazotte, Jacques (4 volumes) Edinburgh: MudieOR (p…
18 August 1808	Augustus, çala	Blackwell, Thomas	Memoirs of the court of Augustus. By Thomas Blackwell…	1753-55	Probably: This work was continued and finished by …
28 August 1808	Tim. Thomas, çala	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: compared with the former edit ions, and many valuable m…	1721	Thomas, Timothy OR Epictetus Thomas, Timothy The m…
31 August 1808	W Abbey, çala	Widmore, Richard	An history of the church of St. Peter, Westminster, commonly called Westminster Abbey:…	1751	Possibly: WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Widmore,…
31 August 1808	Four Plays, Pt I, II	Boyle, Roger, Earl of Orrery	Four new plays: Viz. The history of Henry the fifth, Mustapha, The black prince, and T…	1670	Possibly: This title has two parts, each having tw…
11 September 1808	Lysons, çala	Lysons, Daniel	The environs of London: being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlet…	1792	Possibly: (4 volumes) [- 1796]OR Lysons, Daniel An…
3 October 1808	Read Lefanu	Lefanu, Alicia	Lucy Osmond.	1803	OR Lefanu, Elizabeth Sheridan The India voyage. By…
12 October 1808	Cevallos, pp.	Cevallos, Pedro	An exposure of the arts and machinations which led to the usurpation of the crown of S…	1808	Unable to identify with certainty. The most recent…
23 October 1808	Class-Book, çala				Unable to identify.
23 October 1808	Life of sir Thomas Pope, pp. 258	Wharton, Thomas	The life of sir Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity College Oxford: chiefly compiled from …	1772
30 October 1808	Woolston, çala	Woolston, Thomas	Discourses on the miracles of our saviour, in view of the present controversy between …	1792-08	Possibly the following item, annotated as a possib…
13 December 1808	Nourjahad, pp. 239	Sheridan, Frances	The history of Nourjahad. By the editor of Sidney Bidulph.	1767
15 December 1808	Bidulph; p. 110	Sheridan, Frances	Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph.	1761
29 December 1808	B Thoughtless, p. 60	Haywood, Eliza	The history of Miss Betsy Thoughtless. In four volumes.	1751
January 1809	Camd. Eliz. per Hearne. Apparat. Vol. I, p. 14.				Unable to identify.
24 January 1809	Newspapers				Unable to identify.
29 January 1809	Barret on Swift, çala			1808	Barrett, JohnAn essay on the earlier part of the l…
2 February 1809	Cato				Possibly:Cato, Marcus Porcius (the elder)De agri c…
2 February 1809	& Seneca, çala	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	Moral Essays	1807-09	Possibly the following read on -04: [] c. 41-59 A.…
12 February 1809	Life of Hume			1807	Probably:Ritchie, Thomas EdwardAn account of the l…
16 February 1809	Smollet, 1745, pp. 36			1746	Smollett, TobiasThe tears of Scotland. ?ORSmollett…
17 February 1809	Hebrides, Johnson, p. 150			1775	Johnson, SamuelA journey to the Western Islands of…
23 February 1809	Read Godwin's England, p. 34			1630	Godwin, FrancisGodwin, MorganAnnales of England. C…
1 March 1809	Itinerant Orator, &c, ms				Unable to identify.
2 March 1809	Life of Robertson, pp. 307			1801	Stewart, DugaldAccount of the life and writings of…
4 March 1809	Laing's Mary, p. 152			1804	Laing, MalcolmAn historical dissertation in the mu…
4 March 1809	Home's Rebellion, p. 124			1745	Home, JohnThe history of the rebellion in the year…
8 March 1809	Pitscottie, p. 92			1436	Lindsay, RobertThe history of Scotland; from 21 Fe…
14 March 1809	Jus Regni, p. 10			1600-1649	Possibly:Charles, King of England ( )The commissio…
16 March 1809	Buchanan, L. VIII, p. 250-261			1690	Buchanan, GeorgeThe history of Scotland. Written i…
7 April 1809	Warburton's Letters, çala			1793	Warburton, WilliamLetters from a late eminent prel…
4 May 1809	Od, 75	Homer	Homer's Odysses, translated according to ye Greeke by Geo. Chapman.	1805-06	HomerThe Odyssey7th c. B.C.WG possibly reads the f…
7 May 1809	Poetry for Children, çala			1809	Probably:Lamb, CharlesLamb, MaryPoetry for childre…
15 May 1809	Scipio, çala				Unable to identify.
28 June 1809	Fool of Quality, p. 38			1766-69	Brooke, HenryThe fool of quality; or, the history …
1 July 1809	Varvicensis, çala			1809	Parr, SamuelCharacters of the late Charles James F…
4 July 1809	Wordsworth, p. 25			1809	Possibly one of the following recently published:W…
30 August 1809	Booth, çala			1806	Booth, DavidIntroduction to an Analytical Dictiona…
1 September 1809	Salmon, çala				Unable to identify.
10 September 1809	Lingua Saxonica			1650	Possibly one of the following:Casaubon, MéricMeric…
29 September 1809	Barry, çala			1792	Barry, JamesA description of the series of picture…
1 October 1809	Annals, 1772 to 1786				Unable to identify.
8 October 1809	Fashe Life, Vol. II, p. 94			1809	Edgeworth, MariaTales of fashionable life. (6 volu…
25 October 1809	S Jones, çala				Unable to identify.
19 November 1809	Zadig, p. 36	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet		1747	Memnon, histoire orientale. Zadig first appeared u…
22 November 1809	Galindo, pp. 80			1809	Galindo, CatherineMrs. Galindo's letter to Mrs. Si…
24 November 1809	Melesichton, pp. 6			1718	Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-Ramsay, …
26 November 1809	Measures of Friendship			1657	Taylor, JeremyA discourse of the nature, offices a…
26 November 1809	Thoughts on Narratives				Unable to identify.
26 November 1809	& Eng. Lite				Unable to identify.
3 December 1809	Gusman, çala	Alemán, Mateo	Primera parte de la vida del picaro Gvzman de Alfarache.	1805-02	Possibly refers to the following item, recorded on…
24 December 1809	Newton, çala			1728	Possibly:Newton, IsaacThe chronology of ancient ki…
7 January 1810	Crevier, on Ap. Tyan., pp. 98	Rollin, Charles	The roman history from the foundation of Rome to the battle of Actium; that is, to the…	1793-04	Possibly the following read by WG on -04: Crevier,…
8 January 1810	Rochester, çala			1680	Possibly one of the following:Rochester, John Wilm…
13 January 1810	Orlando, B. I	Ariosto, Lodovico	The Orlando of Ariosto, reduced to XXIV books; the narrative connected, and the storie…	1798-10	Possibly the following abridged version, first rec…
16 January 1810	Read C Ml pamphlet				Unable to identify.
18 January 1810	Nairs, çala			1807	Most likely:Lawrence, JamesL'empire des Nairs, ou …
4 February 1810	City Madam			1658	Massinger, PhilipThe city madam, a comedie. As it …
4 February 1810	Unnatural Combat, acts 1 & 2			1639	Massinger, PhilipWells, Henry W.Unnatural combat.
6 February 1810	Picture, acts 1 & 2			1630	Massinger, PhilipThe picture: a tragaecomaedie: as…
11 February 1810	Sandys, çala			1638	Possibly:Sandys, GeorgeA paraphrase vpon the divin…
13 February 1810	Guardian, acts 1 & 2			1655	Massinger, PhilipThe guardian, a comical-history […
21 February 1810	Friend			1809-10	Possibly:Coleridge, Samuel TaylorThe Friend: A Lit…
21 February 1810	& Biron, çala				Unable to identify.
22 February 1810	Savage of Aveyron, pp. 21			1798	Itard, Jean Marc GaspardAn historical account of t…
25 February 1810	Antonio & Mellida			1602	Marston, JohnThe history of Antonio and Mellida. T…
26 February 1810	Antonio's Revenge, acts 1 & 2			1602	Marston, JohnAntonio's revenge, the second part [o…
27 February 1810	Venus & Adonis	Shakespeare, William	Venus and Adonis.	1807-06	Possibly the following, read on -06: 1593 OR consi…
28 February 1810	Ciris & Ceres, çala				Unable to identify.
28 February 1810	Tarquin & Lucrece			1594	Possibly:Shakespeare, WilliamThe Rape of Lucrece O…
4 March 1810	White Devil, act 1			1612	Webster, JohnThe White Divel, or, The Tragedy of P…
5 March 1810	Malfy, acts 1 & 2			1623	Webster, JohnThe tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy…
5 March 1810	Four P.'s				Unable to identify.
7 March 1810	Tu Quoque, act 1			1614	Cooke, JohnGreene's Tu quoque, or, the Cittie gall…
9 March 1810	Inforced Marriage			1607	Wilkins, GeorgeThe miseries of inforst mariage: as…
11 March 1810	Hog, acts 1 & 2				Unable to identify.
11 March 1810	American on France, p. 124				Unable to identify.
13 March 1810	1/2 Merry Devil			1608	Shakespeare, William (ascribed to)Merry devil of E…
17 March 1810	Return from Pernassus			1606	Author unknownThe returne from Pernassus, or, The …
18 March 1810	Eliz. Poots, çala				Unable to identify.
24 March 1810	Woodard, p. 84			1804	Possibly:Woodard, D. N.Vaughan, William (editor)Th…
26 March 1810	Bannister's Budget			1808	Colman, George, the younger (attributed to)Dibdin,…
28 March 1810	Theocritus, çala				Theocritus (c. 300 B.C.-after 260 B.C.)Idylls.date…
29 March 1810	Theocritus, Hylas; & Heracliscus, 34				Theocritus (c. 300 B.C.-after 260 B.C.)Idylls 13 a…
1 April 1810	Jeronymo			1592	Kyd, ThomasThe Spanish Tragedie, containing the la…
8 April 1810	Skelton, çala			1568	Skelton, JohnPithy pleasaunt and profitable workes…
26 April 1810	Bouge of Courte			1499	Skelton, John(published anonymously)Here begynneth…
6 May 1810	Trip to Scarborough			1781	Sheridan, Richard BrinsleyA trip to Scarborough, a…
8 May 1810	Guevara, çala			1574	Unable to identify specific work. WG possibly read…
12 May 1810	G Fletcher, çala			1643	Possibly:Fletcher, GilesThe history of Russia, or,…
7 June 1810	Family Legend, acts 1 & 2			1804	Baillie, JoannaThe Family Legendin Miscellaneous p…
10 June 1810	North, çala			1742	Possibly:North, RogerThe life of the Right Honoura…
13 June 1810	Defensio, p. 6	Milton, John	Ioannis Miltoni angli Pro populo Anglicano defensio contra Clavdii anonymi, alias Salm…	1796-05	Possibly one of the following by John Milton:Alrea…
23 June 1810	Lovett, p. 82			1756	Possibly:Lovett, RichardA subtil medium prov'd: or…
30 June 1810	Quixote, p. 42	Purbeck, Jane (published anonymously)	William Thornborough, the benevolent Quixote. In four volumes.	1793-01	Probably the following already recorded -09: 1791 …
9 July 1810	Bacon's Letters, pp. 192			1702	Bacon, FrancisStephens, Robert (editor)Letters of …
12 July 1810	Donne, çala	Donne, John	Poems, with elegies on the author's death.	1800-10	WG has previous read the following items by Donne:…
14 July 1810	Bacon's Essays, p. 31			1597	Bacon, FrancisEssayes. Religious meditations. Plac…
18 July 1810	Lazarillo, p. 60	Lazarillo, de Tormes		1554	La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas …
25 July 1810	On Spanish Poetry, pp. 322				Unable to identify.
9 August 1810	Advancemt of Learning, p. 42	Bacon, Francis		1605	The two books of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience…
10 August 1810	Bradley v. Kerr			1810-08	Unable to identify.Kerr is evidently an acquaintan…
19 August 1810	Simmons, Milton, çala.	Simmons, Samuel		1668	printed many of John Milton's works, including:Par…
23 August 1810	Camden, Annals, çala	Camden, William		1625	Annales. The true and royall history of the famous…
27 August 1810	Leicester's Commonwealth, p. 23	Morgan, Thomas?	The copie of a leter, wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his friend in London,…	1584	Parsons, Robert (formerly attributed to) Republish…
14 September 1810	Daniel, çala.	Daniel, Samuel		1718	The poetical works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, author of…
15 September 1810	Amatonda, p. 60			1811	Heyne, Christian LeberechtCrabb Robinson, Henry (t…
17 September 1810	Hornius, p. 21			1700	Horn, GeorgA full and exact description of the ear…
17 September 1810	Banks's Cromwel, p. 95			1739	Bancks, JohnA short critical review of the politic…
4 October 1810	Hooker, p. 22	Hooker, Richard	Of the laws of ecclesiastical politie, eight bookes.	1810-10	Possibly one of the following. WG is reading a Lif…
5 October 1810	Life of Hooker, pp. 100	Walton, Isaac	The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert.…	1670	ORWalton, IsaacThe life of Mr. Rich. Hooker, the a…
14 October 1810	Warton, çala	Warton, Joseph	An essay on the writings and genius of Pope.	1798-09	Possibly one of the following already read by WG:O…
14 October 1810	La Cretelle, France, p. 103			1788	Le Cretelle, Pierre LouisDe la convocation de la p…
15 October 1810	Hall's Satires, B. I	Hall, Joseph		1753	Virgidemiarum: Satires in six books. By Joseph Hal…
19 October 1810	Spain, çala	Burton, John	A genuine and true journal of the most miraculous escape of the young Chevalier, from …	1843	Unable to identify. . Burton, p. 16 1810-11-08Poss…
20 November 1810	Shadwel, L Witches, acts 1 & 2			1682	Shadwell, ThomasThe Lancashire-witches and Tegue O…
4 December 1810	Euphues, p. 32	Lyly, John		1578	euphues. The anatomy of vvyt. Very pleasant for al…
5 December 1810	Osborn, çala			1658	Possibly:Osborne, FrancisHistorical memoires on th…
8 December 1810	Langbaine			1699	Langbaine, GerardGildon, CharlesThe lives and char…
12 December 1810	London Prodigal			1605	Shakespeare, William (attributed to)The London Pro…
15 December 1810	Hind & Panther, B. I			1687	Dryden, JohnThe Hind and the Panther. A Poem, In T…
15 December 1810	Scott's Dryden, çala			1808	Dryden, JohnScott, Sir WalterThe works of John Dry…
18 December 1810	Rosader, p. 18.				Unable to identify.
23 December 1810	Brooke's Sidney, p. 44			1652	Brooke, Fulke Greville, BaronThe life of the renow…
26 December 1810	Tacitus, çala	Tacitus, Cornelius	De Vita Iulii Agricolae (The Life of Julius Agricola)	1805-04	WG previously read on -26: comp. 97-98 A.D.Other w…
27 December 1810	Ignatius's Conclave			1611	Donne, John (translator)(published anonymously)Ign…
3 January 1811	Crashaw, çala			1646	Crashaw, RichardSteps to the temple. Sacred poems,…
6 January 1811	Lilburne, p. 104				Unable to identify specific title. WG read many wo…
8 January 1811	Prophesying, çala			1647	Taylor, JeremyTheologia eklektike: A discourse of …
15 January 1811	Vanini, çla				Unable to identify specific work.
27 January 1811	Daniel on Rhime, pp. 33			1603	Daniel, SamuelA panegyrike congratulatorie deliuer…
29 January 1811	Salmasius, p. 6				Unable to identify.
3 February 1811	Stillingfleet, çala				Unable to identify.
4 February 1811	Musophilus, p. 16			1599	Daniel, SamuelMusophilus. Containing a generall de…
8 February 1811	Biathanatos, p. 16			1644	Donne, JohnBiathanatos. A declaration of that para…
9 February 1811	Daniel, Civil Wars, p. 15			1595	Daniel, SamuelThe first fowre bookes of the ciuile…
12 February 1811	Philips, Life of Milton, pp. 44			1649	Phillips, EdwardLetters of state, written by Mr. J…
15 February 1811	Hall on Moderation, p. 70	Hall, Joseph	Christian moderation. In two books. By Jos: Exon.	1640	WG's sale catalog lists:Hall's Christian Moderatio…
21 February 1811	Lefanu, pp. 55		Rosara's Chain	1812	Lefanu, AliciaRosara's chains, or, The choice of l…
21 February 1811	Philips's Quixote, çala			1687	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePhilips, John (transl…
3 March 1811	Polyolbion, B. I			1613	Drayton, MichaelPolyolbion. Or a chronograhicall d…
16 March 1811	Dryden, çala	Dryden, John	The critical and miscellaneous prose works of John Dryden: now first collected: with n…	1808	Dryden, JohnThe works of John Dryden: now first co…
24 March 1811	Rehearsal, acts 1, 2, 3			1672	Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke ofThe rehearsal,…
25 March 1811	Tyrannic Love, acts 1 & 2			1670	Dryden, JohnTyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr. A…
26 March 1811	Battle of Books, pp. 50			1704	Swift, JonathanA full and true account of the batt…
28 March 1811	Mar-all, acts 1 & 2			1671	Dryden, John(published anonymously)The Feign'd Inn…
15 April 1811	Sheffield, çala			1878	Unable to identify. . Wilkins on Religion, p. 90 1…
21 April 1811	Wither, çala			1811-04	Possibly the following work, which WG reads on -22…
22 April 1811	Shepherd's Hunting, pp. 99			1615	Wither, GeorgeThe shepherds hunting: being, certai…
25 April 1811	Satyr to the King, pp. 31			1614	Wither, GeorgeA satyre: dedicated to his most exce…
26 April 1811	Hymen's Triumph			1615	Daniel, SamuelHymens triumph. A pastorall tragicom…
28 April 1811	De Augmentis, çala			1605	Bacon, FrancisThe two books of Francis Bacon. Of t…
8 May 1811	Cheek, p. 18				Unable to identify specific title.
9 May 1811	Baker, çala			1764	Baker, David ErskineThe companion to the play-hous…
11 May 1811	Hayward, çala			1738	Hayward, ThomasThe British Muse, or, a collection …
17 May 1811	J F Newton, çala				Unable to identify.
25 May 1811	All's Well, cala			1623	Shakespeare, WilliamAll's well that ends well.
2 June 1811	Ovid, Sandys, B. IV			1626	OvidSandys, George (translator)Ovid's Metamorphosi…
9 June 1811	T Brown, cala	Browne, Sir Thomas	Religio medici.	1693	Possibly one of the following:Maurier, Louis Auber…
14 June 1811	Cabala, çala			1654	Author unknownCabala, sive Scrinia sacra. Mysterie…
16 June 1811	Hall's Epistles, çala			1608	Hall, JosephEpistles. (2 volumes) Third volume pri…
17 June 1811	Cotton, çala	Cotton, sir Robert (compiler; attributed to)	An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London, from the reign of King Edw…	1811-05	Possibly the following item published with John Ha…
21 June 1811	Ascham on Germany, p. 35			1553	Ascham, RogerA report and discourse, written by Ro…
25 June 1811	More's Works, çala			1557	More, Sir ThomasRastell, William (editor)The worke…
26 June 1811	More, Dialogue, p. 31.			1532	The confutacyon of Tyndales answere made by syr Th…
30 June 1811	Life of More, p. 60			1626	Roper, WilliamThe mirrovr of vertve in worldly gre…
2 July 1811	More, çala			1811-06	See -25, 26, and 30 for works WG is reading at thi…
9 July 1811	Collier				Unable to identify specific title.
9 July 1811	Stapleton				Unable to identify specific title.
9 July 1811	Erasmus				Unable to identify specific title.
14 July 1811	Scriblerus, p. 38	Pope, Alexander	Peri bathous: or, Martinus Scriblerus, his treatise of The art of sinking in poetry.	1794-04	Possibly one of the following, annotated earlier:R…
17 July 1811	Spenser, çala, Todd			1805	Spenser, EdmundTodd, Henry John (editor)Hughes, Jo…
18 July 1811	Life of Donne, 81 pp.	Walton, Isaac	The life of John Donne, Dr. in divinity, and late dean of Saint Pauls Church, London.	1804-11	Possibly one of the following: -24 1658 OR Walton,…
23 July 1811	Donne, Epigrams			1652/16	Donne, JohnParadoxes, problems, essayes, character…
2 August 1811	Goff's Orestes			1656	Goffe, ThomasThe tragedy of Orestesin Three excell…
3 August 1811	Raging Turk, acts 1 & 2			1656	Goffe, ThomasThe raging Turkin Three excellent tra…
3 August 1811	Rehearsal Tranprd, p. 100	Marvell, Andrew	The rehearsal transpos'd: or, Animadversions upon a late book, intituled, A preface sh…	1457	Earlier annotated ( ), reading recorded on 1804-04…
6 August 1811	Courageous Turk, acts 1 & 2			1656	Goffe, ThomasThe courageous Turkin Three excellent…
8 August 1811	Progress of the Soul		The second anniversarie: Of the progess of the soule.	1612	Donne, John
11 August 1811	Surrey, çala	Lysons, Daniel	The environs of London: being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlet…	1726	Possibly one of the two items annotated in entry f…
18 August 1811	Ecclesiastes				Ecclesiastes4th-3rd century B.C.
21 August 1811	Plutarch, on Superstition	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Moralia.		Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.
9 September 1811	College, or Chapter, çala				Unable to identify.
11 September 1811	Newton, Life of Milton, pp. 70			1778	Newton, ThomasThe life of Milton [prefixed to Para…
15 September 1811	Mazarine, Duchess, pp. 122			1676	Mazarin, Ortensia de la Porte, Duchess dePorter, P…
16 September 1811	Charles II, çala	Author unknown	Secret history of the last four monarchs of Great Britain, Part 2: The secret history …	1792-04	Possibly the following, first recorded for ‘Secret…
17 September 1811	1/2 Absalom			1681	Possibly:Dryden, JohnAbsalom and Achitophel. A poe…
14 October 1811	Tetrachordon, p. 20			1644/16	Milton, JohnTetrachordon: Expositions upon The fou…
22 October 1811	Eikonoclastes, p. 12			1649	Milton, JohnEikonoklastes. In answer to a Book Int…
26 October 1811	Riposo			1584	Possibly:Borghini, RaffaelloIl riposo di Raffaello…
28 October 1811	Averroes, çala			1126	Averroes (Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muha…
31 October 1811	Cardonne, p. 76			1745	Cardonne, Denis DominiqueHistoire de l'Afrique et …
2 November 1811	Case for Burr			1807	Possibly one of the following:United States Circui…
7 November 1811	Complete Tradesman, p. 126			1726	Defoe, DanielThe complete English tradesman, in fa…
9 November 1811	Welwood, p.50			1688	Possibly the following:Welwood, JamesMemoirs of th…
9 November 1811	Cherbury, p. 28			1649	Possibly one of the following:Cherbury, Edward Lor…
10 November 1811	Wars of Granada, p. 49			1801	Pérez de Hita, Ginés (translator)Rodd, Thomas (tra…
12 November 1811	Robert Boyle, p. 40			1665	Boyle, RobertOccasional reflections upon several s…
19 November 1811	Gibbon	Gibbon, Edward	The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.	1801-01	Possibly one of the following previously read by G…
21 November 1811	Cid, p. 50			1808	Possibly:Southey, Robert (translator)Chronicle of …
23 November 1811	Cervantes, Novels, p. 22			1731	Probably the following edition:Cervantes Saavedra,…
23 November 1811	Rincon, pp. 67			1741	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel deGoadby, Robert (trans…
4 December 1811	Cervantes, Marriage Trompeur, pp. 35			1731	Probably:Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel deLe mariage t…
8 December 1811	James I, çala			1609	WG's sale catalog lists:James the First's Meditati…
11 December 1811	Marmol, çala				Unable to identify.
15 December 1811	Homme de Qualité, p. 100	Prévost, Antoine François d'Exiles, abbé	Mémoires et avantures d'un homme de qualité qui s'est retiré du monde	1728	.
16 December 1811	Laborde, çala				Unable to identify.
24 December 1811	Bourke, History of Moors, p. 145			1811	Bourke, ThomasA concise history of the Moors in Sp…
8 January 1812	Case, 4 pp.				Unable to identify.
8 January 1812	Jonathan Scott, p. 21	Scott, Jonathan	The Arabian nights entertainments: carefully rev. and occasionally corrected from the …	1811	Possibly: . (6 volumes) Conjecture based on WG's e…
10 January 1812	Browne, Quincunx, c. 1, 2, 3	Browne, Sir Thomas	The garden of Cyrus, or, The quincuncial lozenge, or network plantations of the ancien…	1658	. (Published with Hydrotaphia, urn-burial; or, A d…
11 January 1812	St Francis, p. 42				Unable to identify.
11 January 1812	Camden, Remains, çala.	Camden, William	Remains of a greater worke, concerning Britaine, the inhabitants thereof, their langua…	1605	.
13 January 1812	Toralva, p. 2/2				Unable to identify.
14 January 1812	Warbeck, act 1	Ford, John (published anonymously)	The chronicle historie of Perkin Warbeck. A strange truth. Acted (some-times) by the Q…	1634	WG's sale catalog lists:Ford's Dramatic Works, wit…
16 January 1812	Palaye, p. 30	Sainte-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de	Mémoires sur l'ancienne chevalerie.	1801-05	Possibly one of the following already recorded in …
19 January 1812	Broken Heart, acts 1, 2	Ford, John	The broken heart. Acted by the King's Majesties Seruants at the priuate house in the B…	1633	. WG's sale catalog lists:Ford's Dramatic Works, w…
22 January 1812	Orinda to Poliarchus, pp. 226	Philips, Katherine	Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus	1705	. (written to Sir Charles Cotterell)
27 January 1812	Lover's Melancholy, acts 1, 2, 3	Ford, John	The lovers melancholy : acted at the private hovse in blacke Friers, and publickely at…	1629	WG's sale catalog lists:Ford's Dramatic Works, wit…
29 January 1812	Love's Sacrifice	Ford, John	Loues sacrifice. A tragedie receiued generally well. Acted by the Queenes Majesties Se…	1633	WG's sale catalog lists:Ford's Dramatic Works, wit…
30 January 1812	Witch of Edmonton, acts 1 & 2	Rowley, William	The witch of Edmonton. A known true story. Composed into a tragi-comedy by divers well…	1658	Dekker, Thomas Ford, John .WG's sale catalog lists…
2 February 1812	Lady's Trial	Ford, John	The ladies triall. Acted by both their Majesties Servants at the private house in Drur…	1639	WG's sale catalog lists:Ford's Dramatic Works, wit…
3 February 1812	Cynthia's Revels, act 1	Jonson, Ben	The fovntaine of selfe-loue, or, Cynthias revels. As it hath been sundry times priuate…	1601	.
6 February 1812	First Impressions, pp. 2	Holford, Miss	First impressions; or, The portrait. A novel.	1801	This is WG's only recording of ‘First Impressions.…
6 February 1812	King's Qur, st. 46	James I, King of Scotland	The works of James I, King of Scotland. Containing The King's quair, Christis kirk of …	1786
7 February 1812	G Peele, pp. 31				Unable to identify.
9 February 1812	Corbet, &c.	Corbet, Richard	Certain elegant poems, written by Dr Corbet, Bishop of Norwich.	1647	WG's sale catalog lists the fourth edition:Corbet'…
10 February 1812	Persiles & Sigismunda, p. 37	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	The travels of Persile and Sigismunda. A northern history, wherein, amongs the variabl…	1619	In Spanish: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Los trab…
11 February 1812	Herbert, sir Thos, p. 88	Herbert, Sir Thomas	A description of the Persian monarchy now beinge. The orientall Indyes Iles and other …	1634	. WG's sale catalog lists:Herbert's (T.) Some Year…
11 February 1812	Fables, çala	John Dryden	Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer…	1700	Possibly one of the following titles previously re…
13 February 1812	Life of Berkeley, pp. 40	Stock, Joseph	An account of the life of George Berkeley, D.D. late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. With…	1776
14 February 1812	Burnet, on Rochr, pp. 132	Burnet, Gilbert	Some passages of the life and death of the right honourable John, Earl of Rochester, w…	1680	Possibly:
21 February 1812	Idea of Chas I, çala	Towgood, Micaiah	An essay towards attaining a true idea of the character and reign of K. Charles the Fi…	1748
22 February 1812	Temple's Memoirs, pp. 172	Temple, Sir William	Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun in 1672 … to the peace conclu…	1683
23 February 1812	Roger Coke, çala	Coke, Roger	A detection of the court and state of England during the four last reigns, and the int…	1694	. WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Roger Cok…
24 February 1812	Burnet's Hamilton, p. 80	Burnet, Gilbert	Memoirs of the lives and actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton and Castlehera…	1671	. WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Memoirs o…
4 March 1812	Royal Slave, acts 1 & 2	Cartwright, William	Royal slave	1639	. OR Behn, Aphra Oroonoko; or, the royal slave. A …
6 March 1812	Holy day, çala	Holyday, Barten (translator)	Aulus Persius Flaccus his Satires. Translated into English by Barten Holyday, Master o…	1616	Persius Flaccus, Aulus . Identification based on W…
8 March 1812	Cartwright, &c.	Cartwright, William	Comedies, tragi-comedies. With other poems, by Mr William Cartwright…	1651	WG's sale catalog lists:Cartwright's (W.) Comedies…
17 March 1812	Eliot, Governor, çala	Eliot, Andrew	A sermon preached before his Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; governor, the honorable …	1765
18 March 1812	Widow, acts, 1, 2, 3	Jonson, Ben	The widdow. A comedy. As it was acted at the private house in Black-Fryers, with great…	1652	Fletcher, John Middleton, Thomas
19 March 1812	Wit without Money, act 1	Fletcher, John	Wit without money, a comedie. As it hath beene presented with good applause at the pri…	1639/16	40(Generally regarded as being Fletcher's work alo…
23 March 1812	Agonistes, acts 1, 2, 3	Hamilton, Newburgh	Samson. An oratorio [in three acts]. As it is performed at the Theatres-Royal. Altered…	1742	Possibly: . ? Milton's Samson Agonistes is not div…
25 March 1812	Paradise Regd, B. I	Milton, John	Paradise regain'd: a poem in IV books: to which is added Samson Agonistes.	1671	WG's sale catalog lists: Paradise Regained, &c. fo…
25 March 1812	May's Lucan, çala	Lucan	Lucan's Pharsalia, or the civill warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the Great and Iulius …	1626	May, Thomas (translator) (May's translation of the…
25 March 1812	Trial of Cha. I, çala	Nalson, John	A true copy of the journal of the High Court of Justice, for the tryal of K. Charles I…	1684	Probably: WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:J…
26 March 1812	Life of Chillingworth, p. 256	Desmaizeaux, Pierre	An historical and critical account of the life and writings of William Chillingworth, …	1725	Probably: ?WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:…
29 March 1812	Maccabees, çala	Author unknown	First Maccabees		in The Apocrypha c. 140 B.C.OR Author unknown Seco…
2 April 1812	Bacon, Hen. VII, p. 104	Bacon, Francis	The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seuenth	1622	. WG's sale catalog lists:Bacon's (Fr.) History of…
5 April 1812	Resuscitatio, çala	Bacon, Francis	Rususcitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, his…	1657	Rowley, William
6 April 1812	Lamb, Theatralia, pp. 15	Lamb, Charles	Theatralia…	1802-02	Possibly: 18--?Manuscript: ‘Notebook containing ex…
8 April 1812	New Atlantis, p. 14	Bacon, Francis	New Atlantis, a worke unfinished.	1628	Rawley, W. (editor)
17 April 1812	Milton's Engd, p. 28	Milton, John	The history of Britain, that part especially now call'd England. From the first tradit…	1670	ORSee another item first recorded in WG's diary on…
18 April 1812	Tenison on Bacon, pp. 104	Tenison, Thomas	Baconiana; or certain genuine remains of Sr Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Visco…	1679
19 April 1812	Shakespear, Fol., çala	Shakespeare, William	Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.	1623	First Folio of:
30 April 1812	Weldon, p. 118				Unable to identify specific title.
3 May 1812	F. on justice				Unable to identify.
9 May 1812	Geddes, p. 60	Geddes, Michael	Miscellaneous Tracts. Vol. 1. Viz. I. The history of the expulsion of the Moriscoes ou…	1702	Probably: 1998. Granada, Vol. II, p. 66 1812-05-10…
10 May 1812	Aul. Coq., pp. 205				Unable to identify.
18 May 1812	Somerset, çala				Unable to identify.
30 May 1812	Bacon, Life & Death, p. 122	Bacon, Francis	History naturall and experimantall, of life and death; or, Of the prolongation of life…	1638
21 June 1812	Arthur Mervyn, Vols I & II	Brockden Brown, Charles	Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793. By the author of Wieland, and Ormond, or The …	1799
23 June 1812	Bosworth, pp. 39				Unable to identify.
23 June 1812	Trotter, p. 238				Unable to identify.
28 June 1812	St Irvyne, pp. 236	Shelley, Percy Bysshe	St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian, a romance.	1811
12 July 1812	Bacon, çala	Bacon, Francis	Letters of Sr. Francis Bacon: written during the reign of King James the First. Now co…	1812-06	Possibly WG rereads portions of the following item…
21 July 1812	May, Edward III, B. I, II	May, Thomas	The victorious reigne of King Edward the Third, written in seven books, (in verses) by…	1635
23 July 1812	Cromwel, çala	Bancks, John	A short critical review of the political life of Oliver Cromwell, lord-protector of th…	1810-09	Unable to identify specific title. WG reads many b…
27 July 1812	Monk, çala	Skinner, Thomas	The life of General Monk, from an original manuscript of T. Skinner … To which is adde…	1723	Webster, William (editor) WG's History of the Comm…
28 July 1812	Regicides, çala	Noble, Mark	The lives of the English regicides.	1808-06	Possibly the following item recorded in WG's diary…
29 July 1812	Overbury, Wife	Wife of Overbury, Sir Thomas	Sir Thomas Overbury his wife, with new elegies vpon his (now knowne) vntimely death. W…	1616	Overbury, Sir Thomas (An edition of A wife now a w…
3 August 1812	Davis, p. 16	Davis, Sir John	A discoverie of the true causes why Ireland was neuer subdued, nor brought under obedi…	1612	Possibly one of the following: OR Davis, Sir John …
4 August 1812	H L'Estrange, çala	L'Estrange, Hamon	The reign of King Charles. An history faithfully and impartially delivered and dispose…	1655	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:sir Hamond …
7 August 1812	Gibbon, Lombards, çala	Gibbon, Edward	The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.	1776-88	Chapter XLV of WG's sale catalog lists:Gibbon's (E…
9 August 1812	Albovine	D'Avenant, William	The tragedy of Albouine, King of the Lombards. By William D'Auenant.	1629
10 August 1812	Clarendon Estimated, p. 3				Unable to identify.
10 August 1812	Edgworth, p. 68	Edgeworth, Maria	The absentee, a tale	1812	Unable to identify specific work.Possibly WG reads…
12 August 1812	Davenant, p. 7/2	D'Avenant, Sir William	The works of Sir William D'Avenant: consisting of those which were formerly printed an…	1812-08	Possibly WG is writing about D'Avenant from -02 th…
13 August 1812	Hutchinson, p. 60	Hutchinson, Lucy Apsley	Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson, governor of Nottingham castle and town … wr…	1806	Hutchinson, Julius WG records Hutchinson's Memoirs…
23 August 1812	Comines, p. 22	Commynes, Philippe de	Mémoires de Philippe de Comines, seigneur d'Argenton, contenant les principaux faicts …		Possibly: no date
31 August 1812	Marvel, çala	Marvell, Andrew	Miscellaneous Poems. By Andrew Marvell, Esq; late member of the Honourable House of Co…	1812-08	WG records various readings of Andrew Marvell in h…
4 September 1812	Child Harold, C. I	Byron, George Gordon, Baron	Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt.	1812
6 September 1812	E Pembroke	Author not given	Letters patent and pardon of alienation from Elizabeth I, Queen of England, to Henry, …	1578	Possibly: November 21Manuscript(For capital messua…
28 September 1812	Bloomfield, çala	Bloomfield, Robert	The poems of Robert Bloomfield.	1803	Possibly: (2 volumes in one, it contains pt. 1 The…
7 October 1812	Sir W Drummond, çala	Drummond, Sir William	Academical questions.	1805	Probably: In view of his reading Shelley's Queen M…
7 October 1812	Rapin on Poesie, p. 26	Rapin, René	Reflections on Aristotle's treatise of poesie, containing the necessary, rational, and…	1674	Rymer, Thomas (translator)
12 October 1812	Thucydides, <p>Lib. VI, p. 30	Thucydides	The Peloponnesian War.		left uncompleted when Thucydides died c. 390s B.C.
13 October 1812	Greece, çala	Mitford, William	The history of Greece.	1799-04	Possibly WG reads the following already recorded o…
28 October 1812	Sir Thos Browne, Letter, pp. 32				Unable to identify.
31 October 1812	Queen Mab, pp. 44	Shelley, Percy Bysshe	Queen Mab; a philosophical poem	1813	. WG reads this in manuscript. He records reading …
1 November 1812	January, ver. 1200	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Merchant's Tale' in , first printed by Caxton…
4 November 1812	Assistant, çala	Edgeworth, Maria	The parent's assistant, or, Stories for children. In two volumes.	1801-07	Possibly the following item recorded in WG's diary…
15 November 1812	Montaigne, Sebonde, p. 25	Montaigne, Michel de	Essais de messire Michel seigneur de Montaigne, … livres premier et second	1580	‘Apologie de Raimond Sebond' in .
19 November 1812	Cervantes, Force of Blood, pp. 30	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	Select Novels (The Spanish-English Lady. – The liberal lover – The force of blood. …	1694	‘The force of blood' possibly in an edition of WG …
20 November 1812	Lady Cornelia, pp. 54	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	Select Novels (The Spanish-English Lady. – The liberal lover – The force of blood. – C…	1694	‘Cornelia' possibly in an edition of WG reads ‘The…
24 November 1812	Estremaduran, pp. 55	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	A collection of select novels (The gypsy. – The dogs of Mahudez. – The deceitful …	1728	‘The jealous Estremaduran' possibly in an edition …
29 November 1812	Milton, Muscovy, çala	Milton, John	A brief history of Muscovia, and other less-known countries lying eastward of Russia a…	1682
29 November 1812	Cervantes, p. 26			1812-11	Possibly WG continues to read items in the collect…
2 December 1812	Russia, çala			1812-11	Possibly WG continues to read Milton's A brief his…
9 December 1812	Restoration, acts 1, 2, 3				Unable to identify.
11 December 1812	Pilgrim, by Lopez, p. 34	Vega, Lope de	The pilgrim; or, The stranger in his own country. Containing a regular series of histo…	1738	A translation of: Vega, Lope de El peregrino en su…
13 December 1812	May, Parlt, p. 69	May, Thomas	The history of the parliament of England, which began November the third, MDCXL. With …	1647	OR May, Thomas A breviary of the history of the pa…
20 December 1812	Supplt to Lucan, çala	May, Thomas	A supplement to the Pharsalia of Lucan, translated from the Latin of Thomas May, by th…	1786	Poulter, Edmund (translator)
25 December 1812	Diana, B. I, II	Montemajor, George de	The pilgrim; or, The stranger in his own country. Containing a regular series of histo…	1728	‘Diana, a pastoral romance in four books'in Vega, …
27 December 1812	Liberal Lover, p. 32	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	Select Novels (The Spanish-English Lady. – The liberal lover – The force of blood. …	1694	‘The liberal lover' possibly in an edition of WG r…
10 January 1813	Lloyd, çala	Lloyd, David	State-worthies, or, The states-men and favourites of England since the reformation, th…	1670	Probably: WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:L…
15 January 1813	Salmacis, F Bt, p. 14	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)	Salmacis and Hermaphroditus: Salmacida spolia sine sanguine et sudore.	1602	Beaumont, Francis (translator)
16 January 1813	Hacket, p. 6	Hacket, John, Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry	Scrinia reserata. A memorial offer'd to the great deservings of J. Williams, D.D. who …	1693
17 January 1813	Remedy of Love, F Bt	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)	Poems. By Francis Beaumont, Gent. Viz. The hermaphrodite. The remedy of love. Elegies.…	1653	Beaumont, Francis (translator) (Includes a reprint…
21 January 1813	Aleyn, p. 112				Unable to identify.
5 February 1813	Gul's Horn-Book, p. 130	Dekker, Thomas	The Guls Horne-book.	1609
6 February 1813	M Antoninus, pp. 36<6>	Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius	The meditations.		c. 171-174 A.D.
6 February 1813	Dekker, p. 178, fin.		Guls Horne-book	1813-02	See -05. WG probably continues .
10 February 1813	Satyr on Hypocrites, pp. 24	Phillips, John	A satyr against hypocrites.	1655
25 February 1813	Royalists, çala				Unable to identify.
7 March 1813	Saunderson, çala	Walton, Isaac	The life of Dr. Robert Sanderson	1670	Possibly: in The lives of Dr. John Donne etc. OR S…
8 March 1813	Love & Eloquence, çala	Phillips, Edward	The mysteries of love and eloquence, or, the arts of wooing and complementing; as they…	1658
16 March 1813	Trial of Vane	England and Wales. Court of King's Bench	The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster June the 2d, and 6th…	1662
16 March 1813	State Trials	Cobbett, William, M.P.	A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crime…	1640-1661	Volumes IV-V ( )WG's History of the Commonwealth c…
16 March 1813	Parl. History	Cobbett, William	Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England. From the Norman Conquest, in 1066, to the …	1812	WG's biography of Chaucer cites:Parliamentary Hist…
24 March 1813	Athenae Oxonienses, 1721	Wood, Anthony à	Athenae oxonienses. An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their…	1721	See 1802-01-11 for the 1691 edition.WG cites the f…
29 March 1813	Maronides, çala.	Phillips, John	Maronides; Virgil travestie. Being a new paraphrase upon the fifth book of Virgills Ae…	1813-03	WG reads at the British Museum on -29: 1672 WG's s…
31 March 1813	Montelion	Phillips, John	Montelion, 1660, or The prophetial almanack. Being a true and exact accompt of all the…	1660	OR Phillips, John An introduction to astrology, af…
31 March 1813	Lawes	Lawes, Henry	Mask presented at Ludlow Castle [with Lawes' songs].	1813-03	WG reads at the British Museum on -31: Milton, Joh…
31 March 1813	Hawkins	Hawkins, Sir Thomas	Odes of Horace the best of lyrick poets. Contayning much morallity, and sweetnesse. Se…	1625	Possibly: Sir Thomas Hawkins also translated works…
7 April 1813	W Smith's Narrative, &c.	Smith, William	Of the celebration of the King's Coronation-Day, in the famous city of Bathe. A true n…	1661	. printed April 29, Conjecture based on WG's readi…
7 April 1813	Hume [çala]		History of England	1800-11	Unable to make positive identification. WG may be …
7 April 1813	W Scott, çala	Scott, Walter	A collection of scarce and valuable tracts. On the most interesting and intertaining s…	1809	WG may be reading any one of several works by Sir …
8 April 1813	Museum; North, Examen, &c	North, Roger	Examen; or, an inquiry into the credit and veracity of a pretended Complete history; s…	1710
11 April 1813	Trials of Coleman, Whitebread, &c.	England and Wales. Court of King's Bench	The tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent: for conspiring the death of the King and the subver…	1678	AND England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer …
13 April 1813	State Tracts	No Author	State tracts. Being a collection of several treatises relating to the government.	1689	WG couples ‘State Tracts' with ‘Lackington' in 181…
15 April 1813	Somers's Trcts	Somers, John Somers, Baron	A collection of scarce and valuable tracts, on the most interesting and entertaining s…	1748	AND/ORWalter Scott's second edition of this title.…
15 April 1813	L'Estrange, Hist. of the Times, çala	L'Estrange, Sir Roger	A brief history of the times, etc. in a preface to the third volume of Observators.	1687-88	Item 2012 lists H. L'Estrange. Same?
17 April 1813	J P, Vindication of Oates	Phillips, John	Dr Oates's narrative of the popish plot, vindicated; in answer to a scurrilous and tre…	1680
22 April 1813	Gray	Gray, Anchitell	Debates in the House of Commons, from the year 1667 to the year 1694, …	1763	WG reads Gray at the Surrey Institution. Conjectur…
22 April 1813	Chandler	Unable to identify with certainty.			WG reads Chandler at the Surrey Institution. Possi…
22 April 1813	Oldmixon	Oldmixon, John	The history of England, during the reign of the royal house of Stuart	1730	WG reads Oldmixon at the Surrey Institution. Conje…
22 April 1813	Kennet	Kennet, White	A register and chronicle ecclesiastical and civil … on the true history of England fro…	1728	OR Kennet, White A complete history of England. Wi…
24 April 1813	College's Trial, çala	England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas	The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Stephen Colledge for high-treason, in consp…	1681
26 April 1813	Journals	Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons	Journals of the House of Commons…. [ 1547-1778].	1742-1779	Possibly: OR Great Britain. Parliament. House of C…
29 April 1813	Eachard, Contempt of the Clergy, pp. 160	Eachard, John (published anonymously)	The grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion enquired into. In…	1670	WG's sale catalog lists:Eachard's Grounds and Occa…
29 April 1813	Speculum Crape-Gownorum, pp. 34	Phillips, John	Of all the factions in the town …	1660	(Alternative, or included, title: Speculum crape-g…
30 April 1813	Popish Successor, Part II	Phillips, John	The character of a popish successor, and what England may expect from such a one. Part…	1681
12 May 1813	Mercuries		The present state of Europe; or, The historical and political mercury	1690	. [Monthly journal] -OR Mercurius politicus. Compr…
19 May 1813	Mercuries & Romances			1813-05	See -12 for ‘Mercuries.'Unable to identify ‘Romanc…
21 May 1813	Plutarch, Morals			1810-06	See WG's diary entry for Plutarch's Morals on -10 …
22 May 1813	Struvius, &c			1813-05	Unable to identify specific writer or title. The f…
23 May 1813	Dunton				Unable to identify.
24 May 1813	Bayle	Bayle, Pierre	An historical and critical dictionary: By Monsieur Bayle. Translated into English, wit…	1811-12	Possibly the following item recorded earlier -08: …
24 May 1813	Plutarch			1813-05	See -21 annotation of Plutarch's Morals. Possibly …
24 May 1813	Boyer				Unable to identify.WG reads Boyer at the British M…
25 May 1813	Plutarch			1813-05	See -21 and 1813-05-24. Possibly WG reads still an…
25 May 1813	Tacitus			1810-12	See ‘Tacitus' -26 for a list of Tacitus' writings.…
26 May 1813	Duellum Musicum, pp. 52	Locke, Matthew	The present practice of musick vindicated against the Exceptions and new way of attain…	1673	Phillips, John Playford, John
29 May 1813	Fanshaw, Horace	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)	Selected parts of Horace, prince of lyricks, and of all Latin poets the fullest fraugh…	1652	Fanshaw, Sir Richard (translator) .
8 June 1813	Aubrey, transcribe	Aubrey, John	Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; to whi…	1813	Possibly: Hearne, Thomas . (2 volumes) See 1813-06…
15 June 1813	Sheldon, Compleat History				Unable to identify.
22 June 1813	Skinner	Skinner, Thomas	The life of General Monk, from an original manuscript of T. Skinner … To which is adde…	1812-07	Possibly the following item first recorded in WG's…
1 July 1813	Don Juan Lamberto	Flatman, Thomas (sometimes attributed to)	Don Juan Lamberto; or, A comical history of the late times. The first part. By Monteli…	1661	Phillips, John (sometimes attributed to) (Montelio…
6 July 1813	Lilly	Lilly, William	Merlini Anglici ephemeris astrological predictions for the year, 1659. By William Lill…	1659	Possibly: There are many other, mainly astrologica…
6 July 1813	Ashmole	Ashmole, Elias	Sol in ascendente; or, The glorious appearance of Charles the Second, upon the horizon…	1660	Possibly: There are several other, astrological wo…
6 July 1813	Gadbury	Gadbury, John	Pseudo-astrologus. Or, The spurious prognosticator unmasked. Being a short examen of t…	1660	Gadbury also published several other pieces critic…
6 July 1813	Austin & his Wife, pp. 154	Austin, William	Devotionis Augustiniae flamma; or, Certaine devout, godly, and learned meditations wri…	1635	Austin, Anne
7 July 1813	Lilly		Merlini Anglici	1813-07	See -06. WG may be visiting the booksellers Lackin…
7 July 1813	Mysterious Stranger, pp. 143	Lister [pseud.]	Veronica; or, the mysterious stranger. A novel. In two volumes. By Lister…	1798
9 July 1813	Hutchinson on Witchcraft, çala	Hutchinson, Francis	An historical essay concerning witchcraft. With observations upon matters of fact tend…	1718
10 July 1813	Sidrophel	Young, James, surgeon of Plymouth	Sidrophel vapulans; or, the quack-astrologer toss'd in a blanket. By the author of Med…	1699
14 July 1813	Baker's Chronicle, çala	Baker, Sir Richard	A chronicle of the kings of England from the time of the Romans governement, unto the …	1811-05	The following item possibly read earlier on -09: 1…
19 July 1813	Flatman	Flatman, Thomas	Poems and songs by Thomas Flatman.	1813-07	See -01.OR 1674 WG's sale catalog lists the fourth…
25 July 1813	Heath, çala				Unable to identify.
26 July 1813	Boscobel, pp. 93	Blount, Thomas	Boscobel; or, The history of his sacred Majesties most miraculous preservation after t…	1660	Possibly: . .First edition has only 55 pages, but …
28 July 1813	Du Bartas, Abraham	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste	Bartas his deuine weekes and workes. Translated and dedicated to the King's most excel…	1605/16	Possibly: Sylvester, Joshua (translator) 06OR a la…
29 July 1813	Du Bartas, Pharoah			1813-07	See -28.
30 July 1813	Du Bartas, Job, cap. 10			1813-07	See -28.
3 August 1813	Du Bartas, Eden	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste	Bartas his deuine weekes and workes. Translated and dedicated to the King's most excel…	1605/16	Sylvester, Joshua (translator) 06
5 August 1813	Du Bartas, Deceipt			1813-08	See -03.
6 August 1813	Du Bartas, 1/2 Furies			1813-08	See -03.
6 August 1813	Albion's England, çala	Warner, William	Albions England. Or Historicall map of the same island. Prosecuted from the livues, ac…	1586	.
8 August 1813	Phaer, çala	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)	The thirteen bookes of Aeneidos, the first twelue being the worke of the diuine poet V…	1596	Possibly: Phayer, Thomas (translator) Twyne, Thoma…
9 August 1813	Du Bartas, Handicrafts			1813-08	See -03.
10 August 1813	Du Bartas, Arke & Babiton			1813-08	See -03.
11 August 1813	Birch's Eliz, çala	Birch, Thomas	Memoirs of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the year 1581 til her death. In which the secret …	1754
15 August 1813	Juell, p. 37				Unable to identify.
15 August 1813	Daniel on Devonshire	Daniel, Samuel	A funerall poem vppon the death of the late noble Earle of Devonshyre	1606	.
16 August 1813	Du Bartas, Colonies			1813-08	See -03.
18 August 1813	Du Bartas, Columns			1813-08	See -03
21 August 1813	Du Bartas, 1/2 Vocation	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste	Posthumous Bartas. The 3rd day of his 2nd weeke, containing 1, the vocation; 2, the fa…	1606	Sylvester, Joshua (translator) In French: Du Barta…
26 August 1813	Cooke, p. 90			1810-03	Unable to identify with certainty.WG reads an item…
29 August 1813	Seneca, Ad Helviam, c. 1-5	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	Consolatio ad Helviam matrem		in his Moral Essays (or Dialogues) c. 41-59 A.D.
7 September 1813	Northcote's Reynolds, çala	Northcote, James	Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Comprising original anecdotes of many distinguished pe…	1813
10 September 1813	Seneca, Ad Marciam, c. 1, 2, 3	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	Consolatio ad Marciam		in his Moral Essays (or Dialogues) c. 41-59 A.D.
11 September 1813	Seneca, De Injuria, c. 1-6	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	Ad Neronem Caesarem de Clementia		Probably: (To the Emperor Nero on Mercy) in his Mo…
26 September 1813	Oceana, &c, çala	Harrington, James	The common-wealth of Oceana	1656	.
27 September 1813	Seneca, Ep. 1, 2, 3	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	L. Annaei Senecae ad Lucilium epistulae		. c. 64-65 A.D.
27 September 1813	Philautus & Timothy, pp. 65	Eachard, John	Mr. Hobbs's state of nature considered; in a dialogue between Philautus and Timothy. T…	1672
29 September 1813	Hobbes, çala	Hobbes, Thomas	Humane nature: or, The fundamental elements of policie. Being a discoverie of the facu…	1797-06	Probably the following item first recorded on -07:…
2 October 1813	Wild, çala	Wild, Robert	Iter boreale. Attempting something upon the successful and matchless march of the Lord…	1660	. WG reads Iter Boreale on 1813-10-03.
3 October 1813	Corinne, p. 110	Staël, Germaine de	Corinne ou l'Italie, par Mme de Staël-Holstein.	1807	Probably: WG calls on de Stael on 1813-10-05.
8 October 1813	Speak Parrot	Skelton, John	Speke parrot	1545	in Here after foloweth certayne bokes, compyled by…
15 October 1813	Skelton, agst the Scots	A treatyse of the Scots	Here after foloweth certayne bokes, compyled by mayster Skelton, poet la…	1545	in . B.L. ?
17 October 1813	What You Will	Marston, John	What you will	1607	. OR Marston, John Tragedies and comedies collecte…
17 October 1813	Dutch Courtesan	Marston, John	The Dutch courtezan	1605	. OR Marston, John Tragedies and comedies collecte…
18 October 1813	Davideis, Book I & II	Cowley, Abraham	Poems, viz. 1. Miscellanies. II. The mistress, or Love verses. III. Pindaresque odes, …	1656	Published separately in 1669.
24 October 1813	Scaliger, de Causis, çala	Scaliger, Julius Caesar	Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri De causis linguae Latinae libri tredecim	1540	.
24 October 1813	Chapman			1805-06	Probably Chapman's translation of Homer's Odyssey.…
25 October 1813	Morgan Godwyn, çala	Godwin, Francis	Annales of England. Containing the reignes of Henri the Eighth. Edward the Sixt. Queen…	1809-02	WG could be reading one of the possible readings o…
29 October 1813	Skelton, Colin Clout	Skelton, John	Here after foloweth a litel boke called Colyn Cloute compiled by mayster Skelton poete…	1545	?WG's sale catalog lists:Skelton's (Poet Laureate …
1 November 1813	Why come Ye not to Court?	Skelton, John	Here after foloweth a lytell boke, whiche hath to name, why come ye nat to courte. Com…	1545	WG's sale catalog lists:Skelton's (Poet Laureate t…
3 November 1813	Siege of Colchester, p. 88	Author unknown	A diary of the siege of Colchester by the forces under the command of his Excellency t…	1648	. OR Author unknown A true relation of the siege o…
7 November 1813	House of Cromwel, çala	Noble, Mark	Memoirs of several persons and families, who, by females are allied to, or descended f…	1784	WG's sale catalog lists:Noble's (Mark) Memoirs of …
19 November 1813	Rienzi, p. 36				Unable to identify specific title.
26 November 1813	Seneca	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	Moral Essays	1813	Unable to identify specific title. Possibly an ess…
26 November 1813	Bacon, çala	Bacon, Francis	Francisci de Verulamio Summa Angliae cancelarii, instauratio magna.	1620	Possibly: (Part 2 is called the Novum organum.) WG…
26 November 1813	Davies, Discoverie, p. 64	Davis, Sir John	A discoverie of the true causes why Ireland was neuer subdued, nor brought under obedi…	1612	.
4 January 1814	Drayton, Mortimer, st. 35	Drayton, Michael	The barrons wars in the raigne of Edward the Second. With Englands heroicall epistles	1603	Probably: . The Barrons wars was published in 1596…
5 January 1814	Barons' Wars, C. I.	Drayton, Michael	The barrons wars in the raigne of Edward the Second. With Englands heroicall epistles.	1603
7 January 1814	Mornay, çala	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly	A worke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian religion, written in French: against…	1587	Sidney, Sir Philip (translator) Golding, Arthur (t…
12 January 1814	Astrophel, çala	Sidney, Sir Philip	Syr P.S., his Astrophel and Stella. Wherein the excellence of sweete poesie is conclud…	1591	Nash, Thomas
28 January 1814	Patronage, p. 210	Edgeworth, Maria	Patronage. In four volumes.	1814
24 February 1814	Golding, çala	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly	A worke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian religion, written in French: against…	1814-01	Possibly the following work, recorded in WG's diar…
26 February 1814	Plutarch, Life of Brutus	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
27 February 1814	Plutarch, Antony, p. 13	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
1 March 1814	Cato, p. 7	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
26 March 1814	Seven Champions, p. 37	Johnson, Richard	The most famous history of the seauen champions of Christendome: Saint George of Engla…	1596	Possibly: There are several pieces with this title…
13 April 1814	Coeur de Lion, pts 1, 2, 3				Unable to identify.WG reads 10 parts total.
15 April 1814	Wanderer, p. 120	Burney, Fanny	The Wanderer; or, Female difficulties	1814	. (5 volumes)
17 April 1814	Marston, çala	Marston, John	Tragedies and comedies collected into one volume: viz. 1. Antonio and Mellida. 2. Anto…	1633	WG possibly reads from a collection of Marston's w…
24 April 1814	Faustus, fin.	Marlowe, Christopher	The tragicall history of D. Faustus. As it hath bene acted by the right honorable the …	1604	Probably:
24 April 1814	Lust's Dominion, acts 1, 2, 3	Marlowe, Christopher (attributed to)	Lusts dominion; or, the lascivious queen. A tragedy. Written by Christofer Marloe, Gen…	1657	According to the Oxford DNB, this work is not corr…
30 April 1814	Old K John, acts 1, 2, 3	Authors unknown	Six old plays on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for measure, Comedy of errors, …	1779	Possibly: Plays selected by George Steevens; edite…
15 May 1814	Calamities of Authors, p. 230	Disraeli, Isaac	Calamities of authors, including some inquiries respecting their moral and literary ch…	1812	(2 volumes)
18 May 1814	Varillas, De Croy, p. 56	Varillas, Monsieur	La pratique de l'education des princes, contenant l'histoire de Guillaume de Croy, sur…	1684	In English: Varillas, Monsieur The history of Will…
20 May 1814	Carrizales, pp 55				Unable to identify.
21 May 1814	Massinger, Preface	Colman the elder, George	Critical reflections on the old English dramatick writers; intended as a preface to Th…	1761	This title appeared in: Mason, John Monck (editor)…
22 May 1814	Bondman, acts 1, 2, 3	Massinger, Philip	The bond-man, an antient storie. As it hath been often acted with good allowance, at t…	1624
23 May 1814	Toland, Druids, p. 20	Toland, John	A critical history of the Celtic religion and learning. Containing an account of the d…		174-?
24 May 1814	Roman Actor	Massinger, Philip	The Roman actor. A tragedie. As it hath diuers times beene, with good allowance acted,…	1629
25 May 1814	Very Woman	Massinger, Philip	A very woman; or, The prince of Tarent. A tragi-comedy. As it hath been often acted at…	1655	Fletcher, John Ascribed in part to John Fletcher.
26 May 1814	Bardouc, p. 60	Sarrazin, Adrien de	Bardouc, ou le Pâtre du Mont-Taurus. Traduit sur un manuscrit persan par Adrien de Sar…	1814
30 May 1814	Maid of Honour, acts 1 & 2	Massinger, Philip	The maid of honour. As it hath beene often presented with good allowance at the Phoeni…	1632
5 June 1814	Bonaparte, çala				Unable to identify.
6 June 1814	Robinson Suisse, Vol. I	Wyss, Johann David	Le Robinson Suisse; or, Journal d'un père de famille naufragé avec ses enfans.	1814	Montolieu, Isabelle, Baronne de (translator) An ex…
12 June 1814	Plutrch, Camillus, pp. 23	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
13 June 1814	Cordila, 8 pp.				Unable to identify.
17 June 1814	Renegado, act 1	Massinger, Philip	The renegado. A tragaecomedie. As it hath beene often acted by the Queenes Maiesties s…	1630
17 June 1814	Temple, Heroic Virtue, p. 36	Temple, Sir William	Miscellanea. The second part. In four essays. I. Upon ancient and modern learning. II.…	1690
19 June 1814	Plutarch, Coriolanus, p. 8	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
19 June 1814	Temple, on Poetry, pp. 63	Temple, Sir William	Miscellanea. The second part. In four essays. I. Upon ancient and modern learning. II.…	1690
20 June 1814	Temple, on the Gout, pp. 48	Temple, Sir William	Miscellanea. The second part. In four essays. I. Upon ancient and modern learning. II.…	1690
21 June 1814	Temple on Learning, pp. 72	Temple, Sir William	Miscellanea. The second part. In four essays. I. Upon ancient and modern learning. II.…	1690
27 June 1814	Virgin Martyr, act 1	Massinger, Philip	The virgin martyr. A tragedie. As it hath beene divers times publikely acted with grea…	1631	Dekker, Thomas
10 July 1814	Ludolphus, çala				Unable to identify.
17 July 1814	R & N Authors, çala				Unable to identify.
20 July 1814	Digby's Letters, p. 37				Unable to identify.
23 July 1814	Seneca, Thebais, act 1	Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)	Oedipus	1581	Probably: . date unknown (Seneca was born c. 4 B.C…
24 July 1814	Turberville	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)	The heroycall epistles of the learned poet Publius Ovidius Naso, in Englishe verse. Se…	1567	Turberville, George (translator) . WG's sale catal…
24 July 1814	Harington, çala	Harrington, James	The Oceana of James Harrinton and his other works. To which is added Plato redivivus o…	1737	Neville, Henry WG reads ‘Harington' on 1814-07-24 …
30 July 1814	Loor's Pilgrimage, act 1	Beaumont, Francis	Loves pilgrimage. A comedy.	1711	Fletcher, John Published in the following collecti…
31 July 1814	Agamemnon, acts 1 & 2	Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)	Agamemnon.	1581	Probably: date unknown (Seneca was born c. 4 B.C.,…
20 August 1814	Fawn, act 1	Marston, John	Parasitaster; or, The fawne. As it hath bene diuers times presented at the Blacke Fria…	1606	; 1st edition also 1606.
20 August 1814	Christian Morals				Unable to identify.
21 August 1814	Wiat, Epistles	Wyatt, Sir Thomas	The poetical works of Sir Thomas Wyat, containing his sonnets, epistles, imitations, t…	1793	Possibly: OR recorded on 1814-09-17: Surrey, Henry…
6 September 1814	Court of Spain, p. 32	Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine, comtesse d'	Memoirs of the court of Spain. In two parts. Written by an ingenious French lady; done…	1692	Brown, Thomas (translator) In French: Aulnoy, Mari…
9 September 1814	Languet, p. 22				Unable to identify.
13 September 1814	Recluse, B. I, II	Wordsworth, William	The excursion. Being a portion of The recluse, a poem.	1814
17 September 1814	Surrey, çala	Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of	Songes and sonettes, written by the right honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of S…	1557	Probably: Wyatt, Sir Thomas Grimald, Nicholas Also…
20 September 1814	Shakespear, Ovid, p. 10	Shakespeare, William	Poems	1640	. Contains translations from Ovid, wrongly ascribe…
25 September 1814	Ralph Robinson, çala	More, Sir Thomas	A fruteful and pleasaunt worke, of the beste state of a publyque weale, and of the new…	1551	Robinson, Ralph (translator) .
8 October 1814	Spenser, çala	Spenser, Edmund	Complaints. Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie.	1591	Possibly: Bellay Joachim du Includes the following…
9 October 1814	Virgil's Gnat	Spenser, Edmund	Complaints. Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie.	1591	‘Virgils gnat' in Includes the following: 1. The r…
9 October 1814	Malone's Supplemt, 1780, çala	Malone, Edmond (editor)	Supplement to the edition of Shakspeare's plays published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson …	1780	Shakespeare, William
12 October 1814	Tears of the Muses	Spenser, Edmund	Complaints. Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie.	1591	‘The teares of the Muses' in Includes the followin…
15 October 1814	Ruins of Rome	Bellay Joachim du	Complaints. Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie.	1591	‘The ruines of Rome' in Includes the following: 1.…
16 October 1814	Eldred	More, Hannah	Sir Eldred of the bower, and the Bleeding rock. Two legendary tales. By Miss Hannah Mo…	1776	OR Jackson, John Eldred; or, The British freeholde…
16 October 1814	Churchyard, Shore's Wife	Churchyard, Thomas	The tragedie of Shores wife. Much augmented, with divers new additions	1593	. Unable to locate first edition.
16 October 1814	Wolsey	Cavendish, George	The life of Cardinal Wolsey. To which is added Thomas Churchyard's Tragedy of Wolsey. …		Churchyard, Thomas Morley, Henry (editor) 18--?Una…
25 October 1814	Vertot, Bretons, p. 80	Vertot, René Aubert de Vertot, abbé de	Histoire critique de l'establissement des Bretons dans les Gaules, & de leur dependenc…	1720	. (2 volumes)
26 October 1814	Dennis, çala	Dennis, John	An essay on the genius and writings of Shakespear. With some letters of criticism to T…	1712	Possibly: . Conjecture based on WG's readings in s…
29 October 1814	Wilson, Rhetorike, çala	Wilson, Thomas	The arte of rhetorike. For the vse of all soche as are studious of eloquence. Sette fo…	1553	WG's sale catalog lists:Wilson's (T.) Arte of Rhet…
30 October 1814	Boiatuau, çala				Unable to identify.
31 October 1814	Brantome, Borgia, pp. <4> 20	Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille de	Memoires de Messire Pierre du Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome … 1, Les vies des homme…	1665	Possibly: . AND/OR Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille …
1 November 1814	Walsingham's Manual, p. 20	Refuge, Eustache du	Arcana aulica; or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and the…	1652	Walsingham, Sir Francis (attributed to) Walsingham…
7 November 1814	New Inn, acts 1& 2	Jonson, Ben	The neuu inne; or, The light heart. A comedy. As it was neuer acted, but most negligen…	1631	.
12 November 1814	Otway, çala	Otway, Thomas	The works of Mr. Thomas Otway. In one volume, containing these following tragedies and…	1691	Possibly WG reads Otway in a collection. The follo…
13 November 1814	Rochester, Letters	Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of	Familiar letters. Volume I. Written by the Right Honourable John late Earl of Rocheste…	1697	.
14 November 1814	Shadwel	Shadwell, Thomas	The works of Tho. Shadwell, … containing, in one volume … 1. Sullen lovers; 2. Humoris…	1693	Possibly WG reads from a collection of Shadwell's …
22 November 1814	Sixfold Politician, p. 68				Unable to identify.
27 November 1814	Post-nati, p. 18	Bacon, Francis	Three speeches of the Right Honorable Sir Francis Bacon knight, then his His Majesties…	1641	Possibly: .
29 November 1814	Warner, Prose Æneis, p. 11	Warner, William	Albions England. Or Historicall map of the same island. Prosecuted from the liues, act…	1813-08	Possibly the following work recorded in WG's diary…
29 November 1814	Dennis	Dennis, John	Poems and letters upon several occasions	1685	Possibly one of the following collections of Denni…
6 December 1814	Nash, çala			1814-12	Unable to identify specific work.But see -08.
8 December 1814	Gabr. Harvey	Harvey, Gabriel	Fovre letters, and certaine sonnets. Especially touching Robert Greene, and other part…	1592	Possibly: OR Lichfield, Richard (signed preface) H…
10 December 1814	Harrington, Ariosto, st. 31	Ariosto, Lodovico	Orlando fvrioso. In English heroical verse by Iohn Harinto[n].	1591	Harington, Sir John (translator)
10 December 1814	Ritson, Bibl., çala	Ritson, Joseph (published anonymously)	Bibliographia poetica: a catalogue of Engleish	1803-06	Previously annotated, with other items, for -28: […
11 December 1814	^ 2266.Bacon, Apophthegms	Bacon, Francis	Apophthegmes new and old. Collected by the Right Honourable, Francis Lo. Verulam, Visc…	1626
15 December 1814	Spenser				Unable to identify specific work. WG reads at the …
18 December 1814	Daniel, Cleopatra, act 1	Daniel, Samuel	The tragedie of Cleopatra.	1594
25 December 1814	L Brooke to a Lady, pp. 38				Unable to identify.
27 December 1814	Spenser, Letters	Spenser, Edmund	Three proper, and wittie, familiar letters lately passed betweene two vniuersitie men,…	1580	Harvey, Gabriel
28 December 1814	Spenser, Latinè				Unable to identify.
29 December 1814	Robert Cary, p. 52	Cary, Robert, Baron	Memoirs of the life of Robert Cary, Baron of Leppington and Earl of Monmouth. Written …	1759	Possibly: Cork, John, Earl of (editor)
1 January 1815	Plutarch, Coriolanus, p. 21, fin	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
8 January 1815	Sternhold, çala	Sternhold [Sternall], Thomas	Certayne psalmes chosen out of the psalter of David, and drawen into Englishe metre	1549	Possibly: . ?
27 January 1815	Wilson on Usury, f. 17	Wilson, Thomas	A discourse vppon vsurye. By way of dialogue and oracions, for the better varietye, an…	1572	. WG's sale catalog lists:Wilson's (Tho.) discours…
2 February 1815	Abramulé, pp. 132	Le Noble, Eustache, Baron de Saint George	Abra-Mulè; or, a true history of the dethronement of Mahomet IV. Written in French by …	1696	In French: Le Noble, Eustache, Baron de Saint Geor…
6 February 1815	Bombie, acts 1 & 2	Lyly, John (published anonymously)	Mother Bombie. As it was sundrie times plaied by the children of Powles.	1594
14 February 1815	1/2 Old Fortunatus	Dekker, Thomas	The pleasant comedie of old Fortunatus. As it was plaied before the Queenes Maiestie t…	1600	Published in a collection in 1814-1815: Dekker, Th…
19 February 1815	Wonder of a Kingdom	Dekker, Thomas	The wonder of a kingdome … Written by Thomas Dekker.	1636	Also attributed to John Day.Published in a collect…
19 February 1815	Poole, Parnassus, çala	Poole, Joshua	The English Parnassus; or, A helpe to English poesie. Containing a collection of all r…	1657
20 February 1815	Cotgrave	Cotgrave, Randle	A dictionarie of the French and English tongues. (Containing also ‘Briefe directions f…	1611	Possibly: WG's sale catalog lists:Cotgrave's (Rand…
22 February 1815	Bysshe	Bysshe, Sir Edward	Bibliotheca Bissaeana, sive Catalogus librorum in omni arte & lingua praestantissimoru…	1679	Possibly: Auction catalogsOR Bysshe, Edward The ar…
5 March 1815	Hall's Chronicle, p. 12	Hall, Edward	The union of the two noble and illustre families of Lancastre and Yorke, beyng long in…	1803-09	Possibly the following, previously annotated for -…
15 March 1815	Life of Bathurst	Warton, Thomas	he life and literary remains of Ralph Bathurst, M.D., dean of Wells, and president of …	1761	T WG reads Life of Bathurst at the British Museum.
15 March 1815	Oldmixon	Oldmixon, John	Clarendon and Whitlock compared. To which is occasionally added, a comparison between …	1804-07	Unable to identify specific work. WG reads at the …
16 March 1815	Speed's Atlas	Speed, John	Speed's Atlas: the theatre of the empire of Great Britain, 1611-1612.	1612	?WG reads Speed's Atlas at the British Museum.
20 March 1815	Framboisiere				Unable to identify specific title. WG reads Frambo…
22 March 1815	Malcolm	Malcolm, James Peller	Londinium redivivum; or, an antient history and modern description of London. Compiled…	1802-1807	Possibly: . (4 volumes) OR Malcolm, James Peller L…
26 February 1815	Fortune-Tellers	Phillips, John	The English fortune-tellers. Containing several necessary questions resolved by the ab…	1693	OR Drugger, Abel (Hardham, John) The fortune-telle…
27 March 1815	Thealma, p. 36	Chalkhill, John	Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral history, in smooth and easie verse. Written long sin…	1683	Walton, Isaac (editor)
29 March 1815	Mercure		Mercvre françois; ov, La svitte de l'histoire de nostre temps, sous le regne du tres c…	1611-48	Possibly: OR Le Mercure Anglois. 1648-1649
2 April 1815	Winstanley	Winstanley, William	England's worthies. Select lives of the most eminent persons from Constantine the Grea…	1660	OR Winstanley, William The lives of the most famou…
2 April 1815	Baron, çala				Unable to identify.
3 April 1815	Tutchin	Tutchin, John (attributed to)	The Protestant martyrs; or, the bloody assizes; giving an account of the lives, tryals…	1688	Possibly the following or some other edition of Tu…
3 April 1815	Prance				Unable to identify.
5 April 1815	Bradshaw	John, Lord Bradshaw		1659	Possibly: (d. ), lawyer and regicide judge in tria…
6 April 1815	Hollis	Hollis, Thomas		1754	Probably: ‘From onwards he reprinted and distribut…
6 April 1815	Bennet	Bennett, Robert	King Charles's trial justified by Colonel Robert Bennett	1649	Possibly: . ORPapers in the British Museum and Red…
6 April 1815	Echard	Echard, Laurence	The Roman history from the building of the city to the perfect settlement of the empir…	1695	Possibly: His most important works include ( ) and…
23 April 1815	Brende, 2 Curtius, p. 50	Curcius (Quintus Curcius Rufus)	The historie of Quintus Curcius, conteyning the actes of the greate Alexander translat…	1553	Brende, John (translator)
7 May 1815	Funeral Sermon for Observator, pp. 28	Laud, William	Archbishop Laud's funeral sermon, preached by himself, from the scaffold on Tower-hill…	1709	Possibly: An earlier publication of the funeral se…
9 May 1815	Nephew of Milton, pp. 12	Phillips, John	The vision of Mons. Chamillard concerning the battle of Ramilies and the miraculous re…	1706	Exact page match.
11 May 1815	Bussy d'Ambois, acts 1, 2, 3	Chapman, George (published anonymously)	Bussy d'Ambois, a tragedie. As it hath been often presented at Paules	1607	.
14 May 1815	Lady Venetia Digby, &c	Aubrey, John	Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; to whi…	1813	Hearne, Thomas . (2 volumes) Lady Venetia Digby ( …
17 May 1815	Baghaw, pp. 32	Bagshaw, Edward	A defence of The antidote against Mr. Baxter's palliated Cure of church-divisions wher…	1671	Probably: Possibly WG intends ‘Bagshaw.' If so, he…
18 May 1815	Paper's Complaint	Davies, John	A scourge for paper-persecutors. Or Papers complaint, compil'd in ruthfull rimes, agai…	1625	Holland, Abraham
19 May 1815	Headley, çala	Headley, Henry	Select beauties of ancient English poetry. With remarks by Henry Headley …	1787	WG's sale catalog lists:Headley's (Henry) Select B…
20 May 1815	Britains Ida, pp. 19	Spenser, Edmund	The poetical works of Edmund Spenser. In eight volumes. From the text of Mr. Upton etc…	1787-1788	Upton, John (editor) ‘Britain's Ida' in Bell's edi…
23 May 1815	Petronius, çala	Petronius (Titus Petronius Niger, formerly Gaius Petronius Arbiter)	Satyricon		. 1st century A.D.
28 May 1815	Helicon				Unable to identify.
4 June 1815	Chisciotte, p. 12	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	L'Ingegnoso cittadino Don Chisciotte della Mancia, composto da Michel di Cervantes Saa…	1622	Franciosini, Lorenzo (translator) WG's sale catalo…
11 June 1815	Biron, Conspiracy				Unable to identify.
14 June 1815	Biron, Tragedie, acts 1-4				Unable to identify.
18 June 1815	Lamb, &c, cala				Unable to identify.
23 June 1815	Chabot				Unable to identify.
1 July 1815	Jackson, p. 100				Unable to identify.
25 June 1815	Shakespear			1766	Unable to identify specific work. WG's sale catalo…
25 June 1815	Nash, çala				Unable to identify.
9 July 1815	Thracian Wonder, acts 1, 2, 3	Webster, John	The Thracian wonder. A comical history. As it hath been several times acted with great…	1661	Rowley, William
11 July 1815	Rochester, çala	Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of	Familiar letters. Volume I. Written by the Right Honourable John late Earl of Rocheste…	1814-11	Possibly the following item recorded in WG's diary…
11 July 1815	Lais	S***, M. de	Les amours de Lais, histoire grecque. Par M. de S***.	1765
13 July 1815	Etherege	Etherege, Sir George	The works of Sir George Etherege. Containing his plays and poems.	1704	Unable to identify specific work. Possibly WG read…
13 July 1815	Wycherley, çala	Wycherley, William	The works of the ingenious Mr. William Wycherley, collected into one volume. containin…	1713	Unable to identify specific work. Possibly WG read…
18 July 1815	Italian, çala	Radcliffe, Ann Ward	The Italian; or, The confessional of the black penitents.	1797	Possibly: OR Boaden, James The Italian monk, a pla…
22 July 1815	Atalantis, Vol. II, p. 108	Delariviere Manley, Mary	Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality, of both sexes. From the new …	1709
23 July 1815	Malone, çala	Malone, Edmond (editor)	Supplement to the edition of Shakspeare's plays published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson …	1814-10	Unable to identify with certainty. WG most recentl…
28 July 1815	Hammond's Letters, pp. 113	Hammond, Robert	Letters between Col. Robert Hammond, governor of the Isle of Wight, and the Committee …	1764	Exact page match.WG's sale catalog lists:Hammond's…
2 August 1815	Jer. Taylor, çala	Taylor, Jeremy	The rule and exercises of holy dying … Together, with prayers and acts of vertue to be…	1800-03	Possibly WG reads one or more items previously rec…
4 August 1815	N Bacon & Brown, p. 58	Bacon, Nicholas	The right of succession to the Crown of England, in the family of the Stuarts, exclusi…	1723	Possibly: Brown, Anthony Consists of ‘A Discourse …
6 August 1815	F Spira, pp. 130	Spira, Francesco	A relation of the fearefull estate of Francis Spira, in the yeare 1548. [By N. Bacon.]…	1638	Bacon, Nathaniel
7 August 1815	Anson, p. 210				Unable to identify.
11 August 1815	Life of Betterton, pp. 36	Author unknown	An account of the life of that celebrated tragedian Mr. Thomas Betterton … intersperse…	1749	‘Chiefly taken from the “Biographia Britannica.”'E…
13 August 1815	Playhouse to Let, acts 1, 2, 3	Author unknown	The stage-mutineers; or, A play-house to be lett. A tragi-comi-farcical-ballad opera, …	1733	OR Stayley, George The rival theatres; or, A play-…
15 August 1815	Shaftesbury, Letters, pp. 58	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of	Letters from the Right Honourable the late Earl of Shaftesbury, to Robert Molesworth, …	1721	The introduction is signed: Z.Z., i.e. John Toland…
17 August 1815	Lord Coke's Charge	Coke, Sir Edward	The Lord Coke his speech and charge. With a discouerie of the abuses and corruption of…	1607	. OR Coke, Sir Edward A charge delivered to the gr…
18 August 1815	Dennis on Pope, pp. 92	Dennis, John	Remarks on Mr. Pope's translation of Homer. With two letters concerning Windsor Forest…	1717	Exact page match.
18 August 1815	Life of Oldfield, çala	Author unknown	Authentick memoirs of the life of that celebrated actress Mrs. Ann Oldfield. Containin…	1730	OR Curll, Edmund Faithful memoirs of the life, amo…
19 August 1815	Shaftesbury, Moralists, p. 78	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of	The moralists, a philosophical rhapsody. Being a recital of certain conversations upon…	1709	Later collected into: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley …
22 August 1815	Duchess of Portsmouth, pp. 69	Author unknown	A letter from the Dutch. of Portsmouth to Madame Gwyn, on her landing in France. [A sa…	1682	Possibly: OR Author unknown A pleasant dialogue be…
23 August 1815	Queen Zarah, p. 60	Delariviere Manley, Mary	The secret history of Queen Zarah [i.e. Sarah Duchess of Marlborough,] and the Zarazia…	1705
25 August 1815	Burnet, Specimens, çala	Burnett, George	Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the sevent…	1807
30 August 1815	Raleigh, Remains, çala	Raleigh, Sir Walter	Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh, viz. Maxims of state. Advise to his son: his sons advic…	1657
31 August 1815	Historia Histrionica, pp. 35	Wright, James	Historia histrionica. An historical account of the English stage, shewing the ancient …	1699
1 September 1815	Machiavel, Prince, p. 60	Machiavelli, Niccolo	Il principe.	1513	WG's sale catalog lists:Machiavel's Prince … 1640 …
1 September 1815	Defence				Unable to identify.
4 September 1815	Child of Nature, p. 171	Helvétius, Claude Adrien	The child of nature, improved by chance. A philosophical novel. By Mr. Helvetius.	1774	Probably: (2 volumes) Represented as being a trans…
10 September 1815	1/2 Man of Mode	Etherege, George	The man of mode; or, Sr Fopling Flutter. A comedy. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. By Geo…	1676
11 September 1815	Love in a Tub, acts 1, 2	Etherege, George	The comical revenge; or, Love in a tub. Acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theat…	1664
13 September 1815	1/2 Courtly Nice	Crowne, John	Sir Courtly Nice; or, It cannot be. A comedy. As it is acted by His Majesties servants…	1685
14 September 1815	Life of Fenelon, çala	Ramsay, Andrew Michael	The life of François de Salignac de la Motte Fenelon, Archbishop and Duke of Cambray.	1723	There are several biographies of Fenelon that WG m…
19 September 1815	Sidney, A, Letters, pp. 176	Sidney, Algernon	Discourses concerning government. With his letters, trial, apology, and some memoirs o…	1763	Republished in 1794.
22 September 1815	Waverley, p. 200	Scott, Walter	Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since. In three volumes.	1814
23 September 1815	Newcastle, p. 50				Unable to identify.
4 October 1815	Sterline, Darius, act 1	Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of	The tragedie of Darius	1604	in The monarchick tragedies. By William Alexander …
6 October 1815	Funeral Sermons, çala				Unable to identify.
12 October 1815	Croesus, act 1 & 2	Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of	The tragedie of Croesus	1604	in The monarchick tragedies. By William Alexander …
20 October 1815	Valentinian	Beaumont, Francis	A tragedy of Valentinian	1647	Fletcher, John in Comedies and tragedies, the firs…
22 October 1815	Emma Longlands, pp. 12				Unable to identify.
23 October 1815	Hart, &c				Unable to identify.
12 November 1815	Davenport, &c.				Unable to identify.
14 November 1815	Love's Cruelty, act 1, 2, 3	Shirley, James	Loves crveltie. A tragedy. As it was presented by Her Majesties servants, at the priva…	1640
5 December 1815	Carnot, Exposé	Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite	Exposé de la conduite politique de M. le Lieutenant-Général Carnot, depuis le 1er juil…	1815
7 December 1815	Sidney on Govt, p. 35	Sidney, Algernon	Discourses concerning government. With his letters, trial, apology, and some memoirs o…	1763	Republished in 1794.WG's sale catalog lists:Sidney…
21 December 1815	Davenant, Macbeth, 1674	D'Avenant, Sir William	Macbeth. A tragedy. With all the alterations, amendments, additions, and new songs. As…	1674	Shakespeare, William
22 December 1815	Hoffman, act 1 & 2	Chettle, Henry	The tragedy of Hoffman; or, A revenge for a father. In five acts and in verse. By H. C…	1631	Possibly:
24 December 1815	Kenney, Comedy	Kenney, James	Matrimony. A comedy in one act adapted from the French.	1804	?OR Kenney, James The world! A comedy. 1808 OR Ken…
24 December 1815	Alphonsus, acts 1, 2, 3	Chapman, George (attributed to)	The tragedy of Alphonsus, Emperour of Germany. As it hath been very often acted (with …	1654	Peele, George (attributed to) OR Greene, Robert Th…
25 December 1815	E Fenning, p. 120	Fenning, Elizabeth	Elizabeth Fenning's own narrative of circumstances which occurred in the family of Mr.…	1815	OR Fenning, Elizabeth Watkins, John The important …
7 January 1816	Webbe, p. 16				Unable to identify.
14 January 1816	Schlegel on Shakespear, çala	Schlegel, August Wilhelm von	A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature	1815	Black, John (translator) . (2 volumes) In German: …
21 January 1816	Jeronymo	Kyd, Thomas (attributed to)	The first part of jeronymo.	1608	?
23 January 1816	Bulkeley's Voyage, çala	Bulkeley, John	A voyage to the South-seas in the year 1740-1. Containing a faithful narrative of the loss of …	1743	.
25 January 1816	Life of Taylor, p. 60	Bonney, Henry Kaye	The life of the right reverend father in God, Jeremy Taylor; chaplain in ordinary to K…	1815	WG's sale catalog lists:Life of Bp. Jeremy Taylor,…
1 February 1816	Cockwood, acts 1 & 2				Unable to identify.
7 February 1816	Demonology, p. 25	James I, King of England	Daemonologie, in forme of a dialogue, diuided into three bookes	1597	Probably: . WG continues to read King James on 181…
8 February 1816	K James, p. 64	James I, King of England	The workes of the most high and mightie prince, James by the grace of God, King of Gre…	1816-02	WG may be continuing to read James I's Daemonologi…
9 February 1816	Museum, Wagstaffe	Wagstaffe, Thomas	A vindication of K. Charles the martyr; proving that His Majesty was the author of Eik…	1691	Possibly: . WG's History of the Commonwealth cites…
14 February 1816	Cornelius, passim				Unable to identify.
18 February 1816	K James, Speeches, p. 24	James I, King of England			Speeches (before Parliament and Star Chamber).Vari…
24 February 1816	K James, Controversies, p. 24	James I, King of England	The workes of the most high and mightie prince, James by the grace of God, King of Gre…	1616	Possibly one or more pieces in:
25 February 1816	Satiromastix	Dekker, Thomas	Satiromastix; or, The untrussing of the humorous poet.	1602	WG may have read this item in the following collec…
1 March 1816	Conference				Unable to identify.
1 March 1816	Fitzgerald, pp. 20				Unable to identify.
7 March 1816	Trial, Ford lord Grey, pp. 94	Great Britain. Court of King's Bench	The trial of Ford Lord Grey of Werk, Robert Charnock, Anne Charnock, David Jones, Fran…	1716
11 March 1816	Hayward, Hen. IV, p. 52	Hayward, John	The first part of the life and raigne of Henry the IVth, extending to the end of the f…	1599
14 March 1816	Who wrote Cavendish, pp. 56	Hunter, Joseph	Who wrote Cavendish's Life of Wolsey?	1814	Exact page match.
17 March 1816	Duke of Milan	Massinger, Philip	The dvke of Millaine. A tragedy. As it hath beene often acted by His Majesties servant…	1638
27 March 1816	Burnet		Bishop Burnet's history of his own time	1803-11	Unable to identify specific title. For works previ…
30 March 1816	Life of Dunois, p. 52	Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, comtesse d'	The memoirs of the Countess of Dunois; author of the Lady's travels into Spain. Writte…	1699	Translator J.H.Sometimes author's name is given as…
31 March 1816	Rochester, çala		Corinna, or Humane frailty	1808-05	Unable to identify specific work. For works previo…
1 April 1816	Museum, Dunois			1816-04	Unable to identify.WG reads Dunois at the British …
3 April 1816	Rivella, p. 70			1714	Manley, Mary DelariviereThe adventures of Rivella;…
5 April 1816	Francelia, çala	Author unknown	The life, amours, and secret history of Francelia, late D---ss of P---h favourite mist…	1734
6 April 1816	D'Aunoy, Cour d'Angleterre, p. 34	Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, comtesse d'	Mémoires de la cour d'Angleterre. By Madame d'Aulnoy.	1695	(2 volumes)
17 April 1816	Ferriar, on Apparitions, pp. 139	Ferriar, John	An essay toward a theory of apparitions. By John Ferriar	1813	.
17 April 1816	Parisina	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	The siege of Corinth. A poem. Parisina. A poem.	1816
17 April 1816	Knox v. Crosraguel, çala	Kennedy, Quintin	Heir followeth the copie of the ressoning which was betuix the Abbote of Crosraguell a…	1563	Boswell, Sir Alexander (editor) ; reprinted 1812
4 May 1816	Guy Mannering, p. 60	Scott, Walter	Guy Mannering; or, The astrologer. By the author of ‘Waverley.'	1815
11 May 1816	Antiquary, p. 66	Scott, Walter	The antiquary. By the author of ‘Waverley' and ‘Guy Mannering.'	1816	(3 volumes)
17 May 1816	Lady of the Lake, p. 60	Scott, Walter	The lady of the lake. A poem. By Walter Scott, Esq.	1810
22 May 1816	Wieland, p. 170	Brockden Brown, Charles	Wieland; or, The transformation. An American tale.	1798
27 May 1816	Clifford, çala			1816-08	Unable to identify. But see WG diary for -24.
28 May 1816	Montalván, by E P, p. 117	Pérez de Monalvan, Juan	The illustrous shepherdess. The imperious brother. Written originally in Spanish; now …	1656	A translation of books 5 and 3 of: Pérez de Montal…
29 May 1816	Christabel	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	Christabel; Kubla Khan, a vision; The pains of sleep.	1816
1 June 1816	Wilson, çala	Wilson, Arthur	The history of Great Britain, being the life and reign of King James the First, relati…	1653	Probably: Conjecture based on WG's reading of work…
2 June 1816	Corsair	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	The corsair, a tale.	1814
3 June 1816	Giaour	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	The giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale.	1813
3 June 1816	Bride of Abydos	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	The bride of Abydos, a Turkish tale.	1813
4 June 1816	Edgar Huntley, Vol. I, II, & III, p. 153	Brockden Brown, Charles	Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker. By the author of Arthur Mervyn, Wieland, …	1799	(3 volumes)
7 June 1816	Charles I, çala			1740	Unable to identify specific title.WG's sale catalo…
8 June 1816	Constantine Palæologus, act 1	Baillie, Joanna	Miscellaneous plays, by Joanna Baillie	1804	‘Constantine Paleologus' in . WG's sale catalog li…
9 June 1816	Drayton, 1/2 Noah	Drayton, Michael	The Muses' Elizium, lately discovered, by a new way over Parnassus. The passages there…	1630	WG's sale catalog lists:Drayton's (M.) Poems, newl…
9 June 1816	Princely Pelican, pp. 59	Author unknown	The princely pelican; royals resolves presented in sundry choice observations extracte…	1649	.
11 June 1816	Lara	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Lara. A tale.	1814	(published anonymously with Samuel Rogers's Jacque…
13 June 1816	Ormond, p. 93			1816-06	Probably the work WG reads by Charles Brockden Bro…
17 June 1816	Adam Bell	Heanley, John	Adambel, Clym of the cloughe, and Wyllyam of Cloudesle	1505	Anderson, John Eustace . c.
23 June 1816	Atheist's Tragedy, act 1, 2, 3	Tourneur, Cyril	The atheist's tragedie; or, The honest man's reuenge. As in diuers places it hath ofte…	1611
23 June 1816	Philip Stanley, Vol. I	Brockden Brown, Charles	Philip Stanley; or, The enthusiasm of love. A novel. By C.B. Brown	1807	. (2 volumes)
24 June 1816	Ennui, çala	Edgeworth, Maria	Castle rackrent; Irish bulls; Ennui, a tale of fashionable life	1800	.
27 June 1816	Wonders of Peake, p. 34	Cotton, Charles	The Wonders of the Peake.	1681
28 June 1816	Jane Talbot, p. 70	Brockden Brown, Charles	Jane Talbot. A novel.	1801
29 June 1816	Hurst Castle, &c.	Vaughan, George	A true and certaine relation of His Maiesties sad condition in Hurst-Castle, in Hampsh…	1648	Possibly a number of pieces related to Charles I's…
1 July 1816	Mirabeau, p. 52			1792-02	Unable to identify specific title. For works earli…
1 July 1816	Manon L'Escaut, p. 60	Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine François	Mémoires et avantures d'un homme de qualité qui s'est retiré du monde.	1731	Volume 7 contains ‘Histoire du Chevalier des Grieu…
6 July 1816	Byron, çala	Byron, George Gordon, Lord		1812-09	Unable to identify specific titles. For works read…
18 July 1816	Fox, Martyrs, çalls	Fox, John	Ecclesiasticall history, contayning the actes and monumentes of thynges passed in ever…	1570	(2 volumes) In Latin: Fox, John Commentarii rerum …
21 July 1816	Marston, Satires, p. 137 to 155	Marston, John	Miscellaneous pieces of antient English poesie. Viz. The troublesome raigne of King Jo…	1764	The metamorphosis … satyres was first published in…
24 July 1816	S P Sidney, çala	Sidney, Sir Philip		1800-09	Unable to identify specific title. For works read …
26 July 1816	Davies, çala	Davies, Thomas	Some account of the life and writings of Philip Massinger	1779	Possibly one of the following: . OR Davies, Sir Jo…
28 July 1816	Byron	Byron, George Gordon, Lord		1812-09	Unable to identify specific title. For works read …
28 July 1816	Daniel	Daniel, Samuel		1810-09	Unable to identify specifc title. For works read e…
28 July 1816	Drayton	Drayton, Michael		1800-12	Unable to identify specific title. For works read …
28 July 1816	Pittscottie, çala	Lindsay, Robert	The history of Scotland; from 21 February, 1436, to March, 1565. In which are containe…	1728	Freebairn, Robert (editor) .
31 July 1816	Marston	Marston, John		1816-07	Probably: Unable to identify specific title. WG is…
13 August 1816	Robertson, Scotland, p. 107 to 138	Robertson, William	The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI. till his…	1759	WG's sale catalog lists:Robertson's (W.) Hist. of …
8 August 1816	D'Israeli, James I, çala	Disraeli, Isaac	An inquiry into the literary and political character of James the First. By the author…	1816
9 August 1816	Morocco, acts 1 & 2	Settle, Elkanah	The empress of Morocco. A tragedy. With sculptures. As it is acted at the Duke's Theat…	1673	OR Settle, Elkanah The heir of Morocco, with the d…
9 August 1816	Museum, Dugdale, O J	Dugdale, Sir William	Origines juridicales, or Historical memorials of the English law courts of justice, fo…	1666	. WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Dugdale, …
20 August 1816	Memoir of Cowper, pp. 120	Cowper, William	Memoir of the early life of William Cowper, Esq. Written by himself, and never before …	1816	Close to page match.
21 August 1816	Holcroft, Memoirs, p. 110	Holcroft, Thomas	Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft, written by himself, and continued to the time of …	1816	Hazlitt, William (editor)
24 August 1816	Tixall Poetry, çala	Clifford, Arthur	Tixall poetry; with notes and illustrations by A. Clifford.	1813
3 September 1816	Life of Raleigh, çala	Cayley, junior, Arthur	The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, knt.	1805
9 September 1816	History of Whitehall, Pt 1	Jones, David	The secret history of White-Hall, from the restoration of Charles II. down to the abdi…	1697
9 September 1816	Glenarvon, p. 105	Lamb, Lady Caroline	Glenarvon. A novel. By Lady Caroline Lamb.	1816
21 September 1816	Warner, Lymington, çala	Warner, Richard	A companion in a tour round Lymington. Comprehending a brief account of that place & i…	1789	CORRECT THE TRANSCRIPTION FOR 1816-10-04: ‘Armt' s…
7 October 1816	Hayward, William I, p. 84	Hayward, John	The lives of the three Norman kings of England: William the Ist, William the IId, and …	1613
15 October 1816	Scarron, p. 24	Scarron, Paul	The comical romance; or, a facetious history of a company of stage players. Interwoven…	1665	In French: Scarron, Paul Le Roman comique. (2 volu…
17 October 1816	Winchester, çala	Milner, John	The history civil and ecclesiastical, and survey of the antiquities, of Winchester. By…	1798-1801	Possibly: (2 volumes) Conjecture based on WG's int…
18 October 1816	Locrine, acts 1 & 2	Shakespeare, William (misattributed to)	The lamentable tragedie of Locrine, the eldest sonne of King Brutus. Discoursing the w…	1595	Peele, George (attributed to) Greene, Robert (attr…
23 October 1816	Greene's Philomela, pp. 68	Greene, Robert	Philomela; the Lady Fitzwalters nightingale. By Robert Greene.	1592
24 October 1816	Edgworth; Mimic	Edgeworth, Maria	The bracelets, The little merchants, being the third volume of The parent's assistant,…	1800
24 October 1816	False Key	Edgeworth, Maria (published anonymously)	The parent's assistant, or, Stories for children. In two volumes.	1796	Part I. Containing, The little dog Trusty; or, The…
25 October 1816	Edgworth; Little Merchants	Edgeworth, Maria	The bracelets, The little merchants, being the third volume of The parent's assistant,…	1800
27 October 1816	Marlow, H & L	Marlowe, Christopher	Hero and Leander. Begun by Christopher Marloe; and finished by George Chapman.	1598	Chapman, George
27 October 1816	Italian Lover.	Jephson, Robert	Julia; or, The Italian lover. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, in Drury…	1787
3 November 1816	O'Donnel, Vol. I	Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady	O'Donnell. A national tale.	1814	(3 volumes)
9 November 1816	Ida of Athens, p. <3>137	Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady	Woman; or, Ida of Athens	1809	. (4 volumes)
24 November 1816	Devil's Law-Case	Webster, John	The devils law-case. Or, When women goe to law, the devill is full of businesse. A new…	1623
2 December 1816	Cavalier, çala				Unable to identify.
6 December 1816	Habington, Edw. IV, p. 44	Habington, William	The historie of Edward the Fourth, king of England …	1640	WG's sale catalog lists:Habington's (W.) Historie …
8 December 1816	Childe Harold, C. III	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Childe Harold's pilgrimage, canto the third. By Lord Byron.	1816	(The third canto was not actually published until …
12 December 1816	Buck, Ric. III, p. 25	Buck, Sir George	The history of the life and reigne of Richard the Third. Composed in five bookes by Ge…	1646
24 December 1816	Holinshed, Macbeth	Holinshed, Raphael	The firste [laste] volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. Conte…	1577	WG's sale catalog lists:Holinshed's (Raph.) Chroni…
26 December 1816	Coleridge, Lay Sermon	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	The statesman's manual; or the Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: …	1816
9 January 1817	Destruction of Troy, p. 40	Lefèvre, Raoul	The auncient historie, of the destruction of Troy. Conteining the founders and foundat…	1596	Caxton, William (translator) Fiston, William (edit…
11 January 1817	My Landlord, p. 96	Scott, Walter	Tales of my landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham. In four volumes…	1816
16 January 1817	Sterline, Aurora, çala	Stirling, William Alexander, earl of	Aurora, containing the first fancies of the authors youth, William Alexander, of Menst…	1604
20 February 1817	Genii, çala				Unable to identify.
24 February 1817	Chapman, Cæsar, acts 1, 2, 3	Chapman, George	The warres of Pompey and Caesar. Out of whose euents is euicted this propositon. Only …	1631
27 February 1817	Wanderer, by C K	Kemble, Charles	The wanderer, or The rights of hospitality. A drama in three acts, as performed at the…	1808	Altered from Kotzebue's Eduard in Schottland.
7 March 1817	Harris's Voyages	Harris, John	Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca; or, a compleat collection of voyages and t…	1705	WG reads this item in the British Museum.
11 March 1817	De Retz, çala	Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de	Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz contenant ce quis s'est passe de plus remarquable en Fran…	1717	Possibly: or 1718 In English: Retz, Jean François …
19 March 1817	Melincourt, Vol. I	Peacock, Thomas Love	Melincourt. By the author of Headlong Hall	1817	. (3 volumes)
30 March 1817	Markland, çala	Cicero, Marcus Tullius	The epistles of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Marcus Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero. With …	1743	Possibly: Brutus, Marcus Junius Markland, Jeremiah…
31 March 1817	Headlong Hall, pp. 217	Peacock, Thomas Love	Headlong Hall	1816	.
9 April 1817	Amadis, p. 96	Montalvo, Garci Ordonez (or Rodriguez) de	Amadis of Gaul	1508	. (publication date of first known version by Mont…
12 April 1817	Gildon, Two Stages, pp. 200	Gildon, Charles	A comparison between the two stages. With an examen of	1702	The generous conqueror and some critical remarks o…
13 April 1817	Farquhar on Comedy, pp. 27	Farquhar, George	Love and business: in a collection of occasionary verse, and epistolary prose, not hit…	1702
14 April 1817	Hall, çala			1817-04	Possibly the work by Hall that WG records on -16.
16 April 1817	Hall, characters, çala	Hall, Joseph	Characters of vertves and vices. In two bookes.	1608
26 April 1817	Seneca, De Ira, c. 4	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	L. Annaei Senecae Dialogorum. Ad Novatvum de Ira (To Novatus on Anger)	1737	. c. 31 A.D. – 41 A.D.WG's sale catalog lists:Sene…
27 April 1817	Oracles of Reason, çala	Blount, Charles	The oracles of reason: consisting of 1. A vindication of Dr. Burnet's Archiologiae. 2.…	1693	Burnet, Thomas Gildon, Charles H.B. (translator of…
4 May 1817	Ogilvie, çala	Ogilvie, John	Britannia, a national epic poem	1801	Possibly: . Conjecture based on WG's reading on Tr…
9 May 1817	Spira, pp. 75	Spira, Francesco	A relation of the fearefull estate of Francis Spira, in the yeare 1548. [By N. Bacon.]…	1815-08	WG reads the following item on -06, when he record…
18 May 1817	Haimatoff, p. 82	Hogg, Thomas Jefferson	Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff. Translated from the original Latin MSS. … by John B…	1813	This item is a novel by Hogg.
21 May 1817	Ferd. Jeronimi, çala	Gascoigne, George	The pleasauntest workes of George Gascoigne Esquyre. Newlye compyled into one volume, …	1587
22 May 1817	Warton on Spenser, çala	Spenser, Edmund	Observations on the fairy queen of Spenser.	1762	Warton, Thomas WG could be reading the 1807 editio…
29 May 1817	Hazlit, on Shakespear, çala	Hazlitt, William	Characters of Shakespeare's plays. By William Hazlitt.	1817	WG's sale catalog:Shakespeare's Plays, Character o…
2 June 1817	Quarterly, çala	Murray, John (publisher)	The quarterly review.	1809	-
4 June 1817	Edgworth, Dramas	Edgeworth, Maria	Comick dramas, in three acts	1817	.
17 June 1817	Manfred, L B	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Manfred, a dramatic poem	1817	.
21 June 1817	Blackwel on Homer, p. 70	Blackwell, Thomas	An enquiry into the life and writings of Homer	1735	. WG's sale catalog lists:Blackwell's (Tho.) Life …
22 June 1817	Ludlow, p. 58	Ludlow, Edmund	Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Esq: Lieutenant General of the Horse … and a Member of the P…	1698-9	Third volume issued in 1699.OR Ludlow, Edmund (asc…
24 June 1817	Lalla Rookh, p. 49	Moore, Thomas	Lalla Rookh, an oriental romance	1817	. WG's sale catalog lists:Moore (Tho.) Lalla Rookh…
2 July 1817	Lusiad, C. I	Camões, Luîs de	The Lusiad; or, Portugals historicall poem. Written in the Portingall language by Lvis…	1655	Fanshawe, Richard (translator) OR Camões, Luîs de …
5 July 1817	Harrington	Edgeworth, Maria	Harrington, a tale. And Ormond, a tale. In three volumes…	1817
6 July 1817	Ormond, p. 104	Edgeworth, Maria	Harrington, a tale. And Ormond, a tale. In three volumes…	1817
11 July 1817	Romance of Real Life, Vol. I	Smith, Charlotte Turner	The romance of real life. By Charlotte Smith. In three volumes.	1787
16 July 1817	Coleridge, çala	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	Biographia literaria; or Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions. S. T.…	1817	AND/OR Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Sibylline leaves. …
30 July 1817	Urania, p. 13	Pontanus, Jovianus (Giovanni Pontano)	Opera Urania, sive De stellis libri quinque, Meteorum liber unus, De hortis hesperidum…	1505	Possibly: Conjecture based on WG's other readings …
2 August 1817	Davila, çala	Davila, Henrico Caterino	Historia delle guerre civili di Francia, di Henrico-Caterino Davila, nella quale si co…	1630	.
4 August 1817	Genlis, Zuma, &c, p. 93	Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de	Zuma, ou la Découverte du quinquina, suivi de la Belle Paule, de Zénéide, des Roseaux …	1817
8 August 1817	Liberal Lover, pp. 69	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	Select Novels (The Spanish-English Lady. – The liberal lover – The force of blood. …	1694	‘The liberal lover' possibly in an edition of WG r…
10 August 1817	Rachel, pp. 153	Author unknown	Rachel. A tale.	1817	Identification based on exact page match.
14 August 1817	Zulpha	Author unknown	Suite des revolutions de Perse. Nouvelles de Perse ecrites de Zulpha le 28 aout 1727 …	1727	.
18 August 1817	Smollet, Travels, Vol. I.	Smollett, Tobias George	Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, relig…	1766	(2 volumes)
21 August 1817	Montorio, Vol. I	Maturin, Charles Robert (under the pseudonym of Murphy, Dennis Jasper)	Fatal revenge; or, The family of Montorio. A romance.	1807	(3 volumes)
22 August 1817	Steel-Glass, pp. 37	Gascoigne, George	The steele glas. A satyre co[m]piled by George Gascoigne Esquire. Togither with The co…	1576	WG may have read this item in the following collec…
23 August 1817	Philumene	Gascoigne, George	The steele glas. A satyre co[m]piled by George Gascoigne Esquire. Togither with The co…	1576	WG may have read this item in the following collec…
29 August 1817	Wild Irish Boy, p. 54	Maturin, Charles Robert	The wild Irish boy. In three volumes. By the author of Montorio	1808	.
4 September 1817	B Museum; Menage	Ménage, Gilles		1613-1692	Possibly: ( ), man of letters and philologist. Una…
5 September 1817	Pasquier	Pasquier, Etienne	Les recherches de la France livre premier. Plus, un Pourparler du Prince	1560	. WG reads this item in the British Museum.
5 September 1817	Du Cge				Unable to identify.WG reads this item in the Briti…
5 September 1817	Milesian, p. 50	Maturin, Charles Robert	The Milesian chief. A romance. By the author of Montorio, and The wild Irish boy.	1812	(4 volumes)
7 September 1817	Three Embassies, p. 106	Miège, Guy	A relation of three embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the great Duke of…	1669	In French: Miège, Guy La relation de trois ambassa…
23 September 1817	Buccaneers, çala	Burney, James	A chronological history of the discoveries in the Southsea or Pacific Ocean	1803-1817	Probably: . Part 1 Commencing with an Account of t…
27 September 1817	Gold, pp. 56				Unable to identify.
29 September 1817	Museum, Lysons	Lysons, Daniel	Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Grea…	1808-09	Possibly one of the two items by ‘Lysons' read on …
8 October 1817	Du Bellay, çala	Bellay, Joachim du	L'Olive et quelques oeuvres poéticques. Le contenu de ce livre: Cinquante sonnetz à la…	1814-10	See WG's diary for -08, 1814-10-09, and 1814-10-15…
13 October 1817	Frankenstein, Vol. I.	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus	1818	. (3 volumes)
21 October 1817	Moore, Epistles, çala	Moore, Thomas	Epistles, odes, and other poems, by Thomas Moore, …	1806
27 October 1817	Jonson, çala	Jonson, Ben	The workes of Benjamin Jonson: the second volume: containing these plays, viz. 1 Barth…	1631	Probably: Conjecture based on WG's reading of ‘Sta…
11 November 1817	Sepulchres, pp. 116	Godwin, William	Essay on sepulchres; or, A proposal for erecting some memorial of the illustrious dead…	1809	Page match.
13 November 1817	William Hacket, çala	Cosin, Richard	Conspiracie for pretended Reformation, viz. Presbyteriall discipline: a treatise, disc…	1592	Probably: Conjecture based on WG's reading on 1817…
14 November 1817	Zapolya, pp. 128	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	Zapolya. A Christmas tale, in two parts. The prelude entitled ‘The usurper's fortune,'…	1817
15 November 1817	Life of Whitgift, pp. 124	Paule, George	The life of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury in the times of Q. Elizabeth and K…	1699	Possibly: Cosin, Richard
19 November 1817	Chaucer, Tales, p. 8	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales.	1477-8	The earliest edition of Chaucer's Canterbury tales…
23 November 1817	Chaucer, Reve, pp. 19	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales.	1477-8	‘The Reves Tale' in The earliest edition of Chauce…
23 November 1817	Fairfax, p. 6	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, baron	Short Memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax. Written by himself.	1804-07	Unable to identify specific work with certainty.Po…
24 November 1817	Chaucer, Shipman, pp. 19	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury tales	1477-8	‘The Shipman's Tale' in The earliest edition of Ch…
27 November 1817	Malthus, çala	Malthus, Thomas	An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on…	1817	Probably the following edition: OR Malthus, Thomas…
2 December 1817	Mandeville, Vol. III, p. 150	Godwin, William	Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England. By William Godwin. In three …	1817
5 December 1817	Laon, C. II, III	Shelley, Percy Bysshe	Laon and Cythna; or, The revolution of the golden city. A vision of the nineteenth cen…	1818	[i.e. 1817]WG's sale catalog lists:Shelleys (B.P.)…
10 December 1817	Juventus, pp. 43	Wever, Richard	An enterlude called lusty Iuventus. Liuely describyng the frailtie of youth. Of nature…	1550	?WG may have read this item in the following colle…
21 December 1817	Rimini, pp. 110	Hunt, Leigh	The story of Rimini, a poem, by Leigh Hunt.	1816
29 December 1817	Heywood's Eliz., pp. 186	Heywood, Thomas	Englands Elizabeth. Her life and troubles, during her minority from the cradle to the …	1631	Other relevant titles by Heywood are too brief for…
4 January 1818	All Fools, act 1	Chapman, George	Al fooles; a comody, presented at the Black Fryers, and lately before His Majestie. Wr…	1605	.
5 January 1818	Churchyard, çala	Thomas Churchyard	The tragedy of Shore's wife	1814-10	Unable to identify specific title. WG's diary reco…
6 January 1818	Identity of Junius, çala	Taylor, John	The identity of Junius with a distinguished living character	1816	.
9 January 1818	Comedy of Errors, acts 1, 2, 3	Shakespeare, William	The comedy of errors.	1623	first folioWG's sale catalog lists several edition…
14 January 1818	Rob Roy, Vol. I	Scott, Walter (published anonymously)	Rob Roy. In three volumes. By the author of ‘Waverley,' ‘Guy Mannering,' and ‘The anti…	1818	[i.e. 1817]
18 January 1818	Illustre Fregonne, pp. 94	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	Nouvelles de Michel de Cervantes, auteur de l'histoire de Don Quichotte. Traduction no…	1731	(2 volumes)
21 January 1818	Fazio, pp. 102	Milman, Henry Hart	Fazio. A tragedy.	1815
25 January 1818	Chapman, Hymns, p. 20	Chapman, George	The crowne of all Homers worckes, Batrachomyomachia or the battaile of frogs and mise.…	1624	?
27 January 1818	Lisander, p. 40	Audiguier, Vital d'	A tragi-comicall history of our times, under the borrowed names of Lisander and Calist…	1627	Possibly: Duncombe, William (translator) . WG's sa…
12 February 1818	John Bull, pp. 212				Unable to identify.
15 February 1818	Paradise Regd, B. I & II, w. G Fletcher	Milton, John	Paradise regain'd: a poem in IV books: to which is added Samson Agonistes.	1671	WG probably rereads: Along with: Fletcher, Giles, …
20 February 1818	D'Olive, act 1	Chapman, George	Monsieur D'Olive, a comedy. As it was sundrie times acted by Her Maiesties Children at…	1606	. This play appeared in Sir Charles Wentworth Dilk…
22 February 1818	Changeling	Middleton, Thomas	The changeling. As it was acted (with great applause) at the Privat House in Drury-Lan…	1653	Rowley, William This play appeared in Sir Charles …
24 February 1818	Barnfield, çala	Barnfield, Richard	Poems. By Richard Barnfield.	1816	Unable to identify specific work. Possibly WG read…
26 February 1818	On Criticism, p. 2				Unable to identify.*** Add to titles list:
26 February 1818	Richardson on Shakespear, çala	Richardson, William	Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic character of Sir John Falstaff, and on his imitation …	1788	WG's sale catalog lists only: Richardson's Essay o…
5 March 1818	1/2 Mounchensey				Unable to identify.
11 March 1818	Beppo, pp. 49	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Beppo, a Venetian story.	1818
12 March 1818	Midas, act 1, 2, 3	Lyly, John	Midas. Plaied before the Qveenes Maiestie vpon Twelfe Day at night, by the Children of…	1592	This play appeared in Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke'…
13 March 1818	1/2 Endymion	Lyly, John	Endymion; or, The man in the moone. Played before the Queenes Maiestie at Greenwich on…	1591	This play appeared in Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke'…
14 March 1818	1/2 Wily Beguiled	Anonymous	A pleasant comedie, called Wily beguiled. The chief actors are these: a poor scholler,…	1653	. ?WG was probably reading this play in the follow…
15 March 1818	English Traveller	Heywood, Thomas	The English traveller. As it hath been publikely acted at the Cock-pit in Drury-lane. …	1633	This play appeared in Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke'…
16 March 1818	Mostellaria, act 1	Plautus, Titus Maccius	Mostellaria	1818-03	. c. 205-184 B.C.*** Add to titles list:Lilburne, …
22 March 1818	Royal King	Heywood, Thomas	The royal king and the loyall subject. As it hath beene acted with great applause by t…	1637	Translated from Matteo Bandello's Novelle. This pl…
23 March 1818	Pierce Penilesse, pp. 80	Nash, Thomas	Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the diuell. Describing the ouerspreading of vice,…	1592
24 March 1818	Killing no Murder, pp. 29	Hook, Theodore Edward	Killing no murder. A farce, in two acts, as performed with great applause at the Theat…	1809	Possibly: Has sufficient number of pages (53 pages…
26 March 1818	Jew of Malta	Marlowe, Christopher	The famous tragedy of the rich Jew of Malta. As it was playd before the King and Queen…	1633	.
27 March 1818	Appius, acts 1, 2, 3	Webster, John	Appius and Virginia. A tragedy. By John Webster.	1654	This play appeared in Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke'…
28 March 1818	Quarrels of Authors, çala	Disraeli, Isaac	Quarrels of authors, or some memoirs for our literary history, including specimens of …	1814	(3 volumes)
31 March 1818	Zouch, Life of Sidney, p. 240	Zouch, Thomas	Memoirs of the life and writings of Sir Philip Sidney	1808	. WG's sale catalog lists:Sidney's (Sir Philip) Me…
2 April 1818	Boswel, p. 33	Boswell, James	The life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. Comprehending an account of his studies and numerou…	1791	WG's sale catalog lists:Boswell's Life of Dr. Samu…
4 April 1818	Aikin, Elizabeth, çala	Aikin, Lucy	Memoirs of the court of Elizabeth, queen of England	1818	. (2 volumes) WG's sale catalog lists:Aikin's (Luc…
19 April 1818	Nugæ Antiquæ, p. 130	Harington, Sir John	Nugae antiquae. Being a miscellaneous collection of original papers in prose and verse…	1769-1775	. (3 volumes)
21 April 1818	Buck	Buck, Sir George	The history of the life and reigne of Richard the Third. Composed in five bookes by Ge…	1816-12	Probably a work recorded in WG's diary for -12: 16…
21 April 1818	Drake on Shakespear, çala	Drake, Nathan	Shakespeare and his times. Including the biography of the poet; criticism on his geniu…	1817	.
2 May 1818	C Harold, C. IV, st. 50	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Childe Harold's pilgrimage. Canto the fourth.	1818
3 May 1818	Of the Old English Writers	Colman, George	Critical reflections on the old English dramatick writers; intended as a preface to th…	1761	Possibly: OR possibly WG is writing on this topic …
7 May 1818	Of Religion				Unable to identify specific title.Possibly WG is w…
10 May 1818	Dalrymple, Memorials, çala	Dalrymple, Sir David	Memorials and letters relating to the history of Britain in the reign of James the Fir…	1762	OR Dalrymple, Sir David Memorials and letters rela…
12 May 1818	Johnstoni Historia, çala	Johnston, Robert	Historia rerum Britannicarum ut et multarum Gallicarum, Belgicarum, & Germanicarum, ta…	1655	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Johnston, H…
17 May 1818	Jacobus, p. 359-361				Unable to identify.
26 May 1818	Winstanley, Worthies, çala	Winstanley, William	England's worthies. Select lives of the most eminent persons from Constantine the Grea…	1660
26 May 1818	Budgel, on Boyles, p. 116	Budgell, Eustace	Memoirs of the life and character of the late Earl of Orrery, and of the family of the…	1732	WG's sale catalog lists:Budgell's Lives of the Boy…
27 May 1818	Of the Goods of Fortune				Unable to identify.Could be topic of WG's conversa…
28 May 1818	Women, p. 170	Middleton, Thomas	Two new plays: viz. More dissemblers than women, Women beware women. Written by Tho. M…	1657	Possibly: This play appeared in Sir Charles Wentwo…
29 May 1818	Wheatley on Shakespear, pp. 82	Wheatley, Thomas	Remarks on some of the characters of Shakespeare. By the author of ‘Observations on mo…	1785	WG's sale catalog lists:Shakespeare: Remarks on so…
6 June 1818	Reginald Scot, çala	Scot, Reginald	Scot's Discovery of witchcraft. Proving the common opinion of witches contracting with…	1651
8 June 1818	Kimber, Life of Cromwel, p. 54	Kimber, Isaac	The life of Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, …	1724	The 1742 The life of Oliver Cromwell Lord-Protecto…
9 June 1818	Waller, Vindication, p. 184	Waller, William	Vindication of the character and conduct of Sir William Waller, … commander in chief o…	1793	WG's sale catalog lists:Waller's (Sir Will.) Vindi…
10 June 1818	Berkley, Memoirs, pp. 93	Berkeley, John	Memoirs of Sir John Berkeley. Containing an account of his negotiation with Lieutenant…	1699	WG's sale catalog lists:Berkeley:--Memoirs of Sir …
19 June 1818	Philarete, p. 36	Wither, George	Faire-virtve, the mistresse of Phil'arete. Written by Geo: Wither.	1622	; reprinted in 1818.Wg's sale catalog lists:Wither…
21 June 1818	Charles's Judges, çala	Stiles, Ezra	A history of three of the judges of King Charles I.; who, at the Restoration, 1660, fl…	1793	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:History of …
22 June 1818	Ancient Mariner	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	Lyrical Ballads.	1798	‘The rime of the ancyent marinere. In seven parts.…
25 June 1818	Life of Cooke, Vol. I	Dunlap, William	Memoirs of the life of George Frederick Cooke, Esquire; late of the Theatre Royal, Cov…	1813	(2 volumes)
20 July 1818	Malthus, 5th Edn, read, p. 94	Malthus, Thomas Robert	An essay on the principle of poulation; or, a view of its past and present effects on …	1817	WG's sale catalog lists:Malthus … another edition,…
21 July 1818	Life of Hale, pp. 218	Burnet, Gilbert	The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, Kt., sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majest…	1682	128 pages. WG may have tranposed page numbers.WG's…
22 July 1818	Coligne	Coligny, Gaspard de	The lyfe of the most godly, valeant and noble capteine and maintainer of the trew Chri…	1576	Golding, Arthur (translator) WG's sale catalog lis…
6 August 1818	Haines, pp. 60	Brown, Thomas of Shifnal	The life of the famous comedian, Jo. Hayns. Containing his comical exploits and advent…	1701	[pseud. Thomas, Tobias] WG's sale catalog lists:Ha…
8 August 1818	General Harrison, çala			1660	Unable to identify title.Possibly WG reads about T…
10 August 1818	Mel drum, p. 27				Unable to identify.
11 August 1818	Clement Walker, çala	Walker, Clement	The history of independency. With the rise, growth, and practices of that powerfull an…	1648	Part 2 appeared in 1649 under the title Anarchia A…
15 August 1818	Blake, by S J, pp. 26	Johnson, Samuel	The life of Admiral Blake. Containing an account of the gallant actions of that brave …	1740	. See WG's diary (the annotation) for 1818-08-16.
16 August 1818	Savage, p. 82	Johnson, Samuel	The life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers. Third edition, to which are add…	1767	Possibly: WG is reading the life of Admiral Blake …
26 August 1818	Thurloe, çala	Thurloe, John	A collection of state papers of John Thurloe, Esq., secretary, first, to the Council o…	1742	Birch, Thomas (editor) . WG's sale catalog lists;T…
28 August 1818	Healing Question, pp. 24	Vane, Sir Henry	A healing question propounded and resolved, upon occasion of the late publique and sea…	1656
30 August 1818	Sir D Lindsay, çala	Lindsay, Sir David	The works of the famous and worthie knight Sir David Lyndesay of the Mont, alias Lyon …	1610	WG's sale catalog lists:Lindsay's (Sir David) Work…
1 September 1818	Massacre at Paris, pp. 43	Marlowe, Christopher	The massacre at Paris. With the death of the Duke of Guise. As it was plaide by the ri…	1594	?The 1818 edition of this play has 43 pages, but W…
8 September 1818	E Philips, çala	Phillips, Edward		1811-02	Possibly: Unable to identify specific title. For w…
16 September 1818	Bible, çala			1597	WG's sale catalog lists several editions of the Bi…
18 September 1818	Roister Doister, act 1, 2	Udall, Nicholas	What creature is in health, eyther yong or olde.	1566	Also known as: Ralph Roister Doister or Ralph Roys…
23 September 1818	B & Fletcher, Introduction	Beaumont, Francis	The works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher. In seven volumes; adorn'd wi…	1711	Fletcher, John OR a more recent edition: Beaumont,…
3 October 1818	Barwick, p. 96	Barwick, Peter	The life of the Reverend Dr. John Barwick, D.D., sometime fellow of St. John's College…	1724	WG's sale catalog lists:Barwick's (Peter) Life of …
7 October 1818	Histoire Secrete de Zell, çala	Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig (attributed to)	Histoire secrète de la Duchesse d'Hanovre, epouss de George Premier, Roi de la Grande …	1734	Bielfeld, Jakob Friedrich (attributed to) ce sujet…
8 October 1818	Reminiscences, H W, p. 69	Walpole, Horace	Reminiscences, written in 1788, for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry.	1805
11 October 1818	Smith, p. 60	Smith, Adam	An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. By Adam Smith, … In tw…	1776	Possibly: WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:S…
14 October 1818	Lord Hollis, p. 44	Holles, Denzil Holles, baron	Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holles, Baron of Ifield in Sussex, from the year 1641 to 1648 …	1699	Toland, John (editor) . WG's sale catalog lists:Ho…
22 October 1818	Faithful Friend, act 1, 2, 3				Unable to identify.
24 October 1818	Four Prentices	Heywood, Thomas	The four prentises of London, with the conquest of Jerusalem. As it hath been diuers t…	1632	.
13 November 1818	Franklin, çala	Franklin, Benjamin	Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin. Consisting of his Life written by himself,…	1793	Possibly: . WG's sale catalog lists:Franklins (Dr.…
27 November 1818	Cromwel, 1652				Unable to identify.
6 December 1818	Bacon's Apology, pp. 14	Bacon, Francis	Sir Francis Bacon, his Apologie, in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of …	1604	WG's sale catalog lists:Essex: Sir Francis Bacon's…
8 December 1818	Florence Macarthy, p. 105	Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady	Florence Macarthy. An Irish tale, etc.	1818	Morgan, Sir Thomas Charles (editor) (4 volumes)
19 December 1818	Birkbeck, &c.	Birkbeck, Morris	Notes on a journey in America: from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois…	1817	. Philadelphia; 1818 LondonOR Birkbeck, Morris Let…
7 January 1819	Fearon, America, çala	Fearon, Henry Bradshaw	Sketches of America. A narrative of a journey of five thousand miles through the easte…	1818
10 January 1819	Rigby of Holkham, çala	Rigby, Edward, M.D., the elder	Holkham, its agriculture, &c	1817	.
16 January 1819	Ariosto, st. 9	Ariosto, Ludovico	Orlando furioso.	1516	The earliest Italian edition is: The earliest (una…
3 February 1819	House of Esté, p. 88	Crauford, James (published anonymously)	The history of the House of Este, from the time of Forrestus until the death of Alphon…	1681	.
9 February 1819	York, act 1	Shakespeare, William	The second part of Henry VI.	1594	Possibly: Quarto, under the title of The first par…
13 February 1819	Recollections of Curran, çala	Phillips, Charles	Recollections of Curran and some of his contemporaries	1818	.
25 February 1819	Nash, &c			1819-02	Unable to identify specific work.Possibly the work…
27 February 1819	Nash, Apologie, çala	Nash, Thomas	The first parte of Pasquils Apologie. Wherein he renders a reason to his friends of hi…	1590	Pasquil [pseud.] OR Nash, Thomas The apologie of P…
3 March 1819	China, çala			1819-03	Unable to identify with certainty. See WG's diary …
7 March 1819	Robertson, America, çala	Robertson, William	The history of America.	1777	But possibly the 1818 edition, which collects Robe…
9 March 1819	Robertson, India, çala	Robertson, William	An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India: a…	1741	But possibly the 1818 edition, which collects Robe…
11 March 1819	Traytor, acts 1, 2, 3	Shirley, James	The traytor. A tragedie, written by Iames Shirley. Acted by Her Majesties seruants	1635	. Published ‘with alterations and amendments and a…
12 March 1819	Hazlit, v. Gifford, pp. 87.	Hazlitt, William	A letter to William Gifford, Esq. from William Hazlitt, Esq….	1819	Concerns Gifford's conduct of the Quarterly Review…
14 March 1819	Le Comte, cala	Le Comte, Louis	Memoirs and observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, c…	1697	.
16 March 1819	Pinkerton, çala			1798-07	Unable to identify with certainty. WG records read…
17 March 1819	Trick to Catch the Old One	Middleton, Thomas	A trick to catch the old-one. As it hath beene lately acted, by the Children of Paules	1608	.
19 March 1819	More Dissemblers	Middleton, Thomas	Two new plays: viz. More dissemblers than women, Women beware women. Written by Tho. M…	1657	This play appeared in Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke'…
21 March 1819	Seneca, apud Tacitum	Tacitus, Publius Cornelius	Ab excessu divi Augusti (The Annals of Tacitus)		115-120 A.D.
21 March 1819	Tacitus, Annales, c. 8	Tacitus, Publius Cornelius	Ab excessu divi Augusti (The Annals of Tacitus)		115-120 A.D.
22 March 1819	Seneca, De Vita Beata, c. 4	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	De vita beata (On the happy life)		58 or 59 A.D.
1 April 1819	Sparta & Peru;			1791-09	Unable to identify specific work.See WG's diary fo…
2 April 1819	Herrera, &c				Unable to identify.WG reads in the British Museum …
2 April 1819	Plutarch, Lysander	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.WG's sale c…
10 April 1819	Voltaire	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Lettres chinoises	1791-95	Unable to identify specific title. WG reads many w…
21 April 1819	The. Cibber, Life, passim	Cibber, Theophilus	An apology for the life of Mr. T--------- C-----, comedian. Being a proper sequel to t…	1740	A satire.
23 April 1819	Barrow, China, çala	Barrow, John	Travels in China. Containing descriptions, observations, and comparisons, made and col…	1804	.
24 April 1819	Ellis, China, çala	Ellis, Sir Henry	Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China. Comprising a correct narrativ…	1817
28 April 1819	Life of Curran, çala	Curran, William Henry	The life of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, late Master of the Rolls in Irel…	1819	.
16 May 1819	Burton		A genuine and true journal … of the young Chevalier	1793-07	Unable to identify. WG previously reads John Burto…
18 May 1819	Life of Sanderson, pp. 198	Walton, Isaac	The life of Dr. Robert Sanderson	1670	Possibly: in The lives of Dr. John Donne etc. WG's…
20 May 1819	Sparta, çala			1791-09	Unable to identify with certainty. See WG's diary …
20 May 1819	Life of Boyle, çala	Birch, Thomas	The life of the Honourable Robert Boyle, by Thomas Birch, M.A. and F.R.S.	1744	WG's sale catalog lists:Boyle Life of, by Birch 17…
23 May 1819	Roman Census, çala				Unable to identify.WG may be writing on this topic…
1 June 1819	Lodge, Marius & Sylla, act 1, 2, 3	Lodge, Thomas	The true tragedies of Marius and Sylla.	1584	‘Wounds of civil war, lively set forth' in
2 June 1819	Paraguay, çala	Burke, Edmund	An account of the European settlements in America. In six parts. I. A short history of…	1791-09	Possibly the following item, earlier recorded in W…
10 June 1819	Surrey by Nott, çala	Howard, Henry, earl of Surrey	The works of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder. Edited by …	1815-1816	Wyatt, Sir Thomas, the elder Nott, George Frederic…
16 June 1819	Waggoner	Wordsworth, William	The waggoner, a poem. to which are added, sonnets.	1819	WG's sale catalog lists:Wordsworth's (Will.) Conve…
17 June 1819	South America, çala	Robertson, William	The history of America.	1819-03	Probably the following work recorded on -07 and re…
1 July 1819	Robertson, North America, çala	Robertson, William	The history of America.	1819-03	Probably the following work recorded on -07: 1777 …
3 July 1819	Chalmers, United Colonies, çala	Chalmers, George	Political annals of the present United Colonies. From their settlement to the peace of…	1779	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Chalmers, a…
20 July 1819	Plutarch, Treatise I	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Moralia.		Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.
23 July 1819	Don Juan, by L B	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Don Juan	1819	. (cantos I-II)
28 July 1819	Petty	Petty, Sir William	Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland	1662	Unable to identify specific title. Petty wrote man…
5 August 1819	Gitanella	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	Novelas exemplares … La Gitanilla. El amante liberal. Rinconete y Cortadillo La Españo…	1614	. In English: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Ozell,…
7 August 1819	Peter's Letters, çala	Lockhart, John Gibson	Peter's letters to his kinsfolk	1819	Morris, Peter [pseud.] . (3 volumes)
12 August 1819	Grounds, p. 60				Unable to identify.
15 August 1819	Clarenstein, Vol. I	Watson, Miss	Rosamund, Countess of Clarenstein. A novel. By Miss Watson.	1812
22 August 1819	Hazlit, Pol. Essays	Hazlitt, William	Political essays, with sketches of public characters	1819	. WG's sale catalog lists:Hazlitt's (W.) Political…
29 August 1819	Knickerbocker, p. 140	Irving, Washington	A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty…	1809	Knickerbocker, Diedrich [pseud.] By Diedrich Knick…
14 September 1819	Sketch Book	Irving, Washington	The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent.	1819-1820
25 September 1819	Kaimes, on Delusion, pp. 68	Kames, Henry Home, Lord	Essay on the principles of morality and natural religion	1751	Possibly: . OR Kames, Henry Home, Lord Elements of…
27 September 1819	Wargentin	Wargentin, Pehr Wilhelm	Philosophical Transactions	1717-1783	Probably: Unable to identify specific title. Warge…
5 October 1819	H Tooke, Trial for Debt, pp. 85	Tooke, John Horne	The singular and important trial in an action for debt, between the Right Honourable C…	1792
22 November 1819	Begin Horace, avant diner		Odes	1793	Unable to identify specific title. WG reads Horace…
19 December 1819	Isabel, by C Lloyd, fin	Lloyd, Charles	Isabel. A tale.	1800	‘Isabel, a domestick tale, or Godwin vs. Godwin, c…
20 December 1819	Levite d'Ephraim	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	Oeuvres posthumes de Jean-Jacques Rousseu, ou Recueil de pièces manuscrites pour servi…	1782-1783	‘Levite d'Ephraim' in
24 December 1819	Swedish Transactions, S J Bs				Unable to identify.
28 December 1819	Travels to the Missouri, p. 30	Lewis, Meriwether	Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the P…	1814	Reed, Thomas (editor)
1 January 1820	Gustavus IV, p. 90				Unable to identify specific title.
5 January 1820	Ivanhoe, p. 146	Scott, Walter (published anonymously)	Ivanhoe, a romance. By the author of ‘Waverley.'	1820	(3 volumes)
9 January 1820	Dante, çala	Alighieri, Dante	Divina comedia	1308-1321	. Composed c. WG's sale catalog lists:Dante, Divin…
12 January 1820	Spence's Anecdotes, pp. 302	Spence, Joseph	Anecdotes, observations, and characters of books and men. Collected from the conversat…	1820	Singer, Samuel Weller (editor) WG's sale catalog l…
15 January 1820	Life of Bolingbroke, p. 220	Mallet, David (published anonymously)	Memoirs of the life and ministerial conduct, with some free remarkr on the political w…	1752	352 pagesOR Goldsmith, Oliver The life of Henry St…
21 January 1820	Galateo, p. 12	Della Casa, Giovanni	Galateo of Maister Iohn Della Casa, Archebishop of Beneuento. Or rather, A treatise of…	1576	Peterson, Robert (translator) In Italian: Della Ca…
24 January 1820	Preface to Bt & Fr, pp. 120	Seward, Thomas (preface)	The works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher. In ten volumes. Collated wit…	1750	Possibly: Beaumont, Francis Fletcher, John OR Webe…
26 January 1820	Crabbe's Tales	Crabbe, George	Tales, by the Rev. George Crabbe	1812	. 2703. Lackington, çala 1820-01-26Possibly: Lacki…
27 January 1820	Borough, 4 Epistles	Crabbe, George	The borough. A poem in twenty-four letters.	1810	Probably: WG reads Crabbe on the previous day as w…
29 January 1820	Newspapers				Unable to identify.
2 February 1820	Metastasio, on do	Metastasio, Pietro	Opere del signor abate Pietro Metastasio…	1780-1782	[i.e. Metastasio on Tasso] Volume 10 contains: ‘Le…
10 February 1820	Ipomydon	Rotelande, Hue de	The lyfe of Ipomydon. Ed. Robert Copland.	1520-1524	Copland, Robert (editor) ‘Possibly the earliest su…
16 February 1820	Huarte, p. 32	Huarte, Juan	Examen de ingenios. = The examination of mens wits. In whicch [sic], by discouering th…	1594	Carew, Richard (translator) WG's sale catalog list…
23 February 1820	Journey to Lisbon, p. 94	Fielding, Henry	The journal of a voyage to Lisbon.	1755	TRANSCRIPTION ERROR: ‘Bowing' should be ‘Bowring.'
1 March 1820	Bowing, pp. 84	Bowring, Sir John	Miscellanies historical and philological. Being a curious collection of private papers…	1703	in Anonymous Halifax, George Savile, marquis (some…
26 March 1820	Cenci, pp. 104	Shelley, Percy Bysshe	The Cenci. A tragedy, in five acts.	1820	(privately printed 1819)
1 April 1820	Monastery, p. 100	Scott, Walter	The monastery. By the author of ‘Waverley.'	1820
19 April 1820	Gainsford, Warbeck, p. 38	Gainsford, Thomas	The trve and wonderfvll history of Perkin Warbeck, proclaiming himselfe Richard the fo…	1618
7 May 1820	Camoens, çala	Camoens, Luis de	The Lusiad.	1655	For more information see WG's diary for 1817-07-02…
9 May 1820	Forman, p. 120				Unable to identify.
12 May 1820	Seneca, Clementia, Lib. II	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus	De Clementia		. 55 or 56 A.D.
15 May 1820	Wilson, Demosthenes, çala	Demosthenes	The three orations of Demosthenes; chiefe orator among the Grecians, in favour of the …	1570	Wilson, Thomas
28 May 1820	Phalaris, çala	Phalaris (d. 554 B.C.)	Dissertation upon the letters of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and othe…	1697	Supposed author of 148 letters.Date unknownOR Bent…
30 May 1820	Dryden, on Nat. Religion, çala	Dryden, John (attributed to)	An essay on natural religion, as opposed to divine revelation.	1745	Blount, Charles (actual author) WG's sale catalog …
24 June 1820	Mathilda, p. 226, fin	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	Mathilda.	1820
25 June 1820	Boccaccio, Ghismonda	Boccaccio, Giovanni	The decameron.	1349-52	?(first tale of the fourth day)WG's sale catalog l…
5 July 1820	Rey, Ric. III, p. 180	Rey, M. J.	Essais historiques et critiques sur Richard III, Roi d'Angleterre	1818	. WG's sale catalog lists:Rey (M.J.) Essais Histor…
12 July 1820	Nightmare Abbey, p. 104	Peacock, Thomas Love	Nightmare abbey	1818	.
14 July 1820	Apuleius, p. 72	Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius	Apulei Madaurensis Metamorphoseon (The golden ass, or The metamorphosis of Lucius Apul…	1792	Date unknown; Apuleius died in 170 A.D.WG's sale c…
16 July 1820	read Book I, cap. ult.	Godwin, William	Of population. An enquiry concerning the power of increase in the numbers of mankind, …	1820	WG is probably reading the manuscript of his book …
20 July 1820	Balzac à Chapelain, p. 93	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, de	Lettres familières de M. de Balzac à M. Chapelain	1656	Girard, Guillaume (editor) .
27 July 1820	C B Brown, çala	Brockden Brown, Charles		1812-06	WG probably refers to items earlier read. See WG's…
28 July 1820	Life of Sir T Wyat, pp. 88	Walpole, Horace	Miscellaneous antiquities; or, A collection of curious papers, either republished from…	1772
14 August 1820	Rodogune	Corneille, Pierre	Rodogune, princesse des Parthes, tragedie de Mr. de Corneille.	1647	Probably: Conjecture based on WG's previous readin…
12 September 1820	Abbot, Vol. I	Scott, Walter	The abbot. By the author of ‘Waverley.'	1820
19 September 1820	Prometheus Unbound, act 1	Shelley, Percy Bysshe	Prometheus Unbound. A lyrical drama in four acts. With other poems.	1820	WG's sale catalog lists:Shelley's (P.B.) Prometheu…
24 September 1820	Macpherson, G Britain, p. 56	Macpherson, James	The history of Great Britain, from the Restoration to the accession of the House of Ha…	1775	AND/OR Macpherson, James Original papers, containi…
8 October 1820	Rollow, act 1	Fletcher, John	The tragedy of Rollo Duke of Normandy. Acted by His Majesties servants. Written by Joh…	1640	Later published as: Beaumont, Francis Fletcher, Jo…
18 October 1820	Chapman, Fifth Satyr, Juvenal	Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis)	A iustification of a strange action of Nero; in burying with a solemne funerall, one o…	1629	Chapman, George (translator)
20 October 1820	Fox, act 1	Jonson, Ben	Volpone; or, The foxe.	1607	Probably:
4 November 1820	Vanessa, çala	Swift, Jonathan	Cadenus and Vanessa. A poem. By Dr. S---t.	1726
5 November 1820	Swift, çala			1820-11	Possibly the same title as the one WG reads for -0…
9 November 1820	Victor, Vol. 1	Victor, Benjamin	The history of the theatres of London and Dublin, from the year 1730 to the present ti…	1761-71	. (3 volumes) WG's sale catalog lists:Victor's (Be…
16 November 1820	Luders, on Henry V	Luders, Alexander	An essay on the character of Henry the Fifth, when prince of Wales.	1813
21 November 1820	Sir Ant Brown, &c.	Bacon, Nicholas	The right of succession to the Crown of England, in the family of the Stuarts, exclusi…	1815-08	Possibly the following work early recorded in WG's…
26 November 1820	Ariosto, Satires, pp. 135	Ariosto, Lodovico	Ariosto's satyres. In seuen famous discourses, shewing the state, 1. Of the court, and…	1608	Tofte, Robert (translator) In fact translated by R…
27 November 1820	Melmoth, p. 90	Maturin, Charles Robert	Melmoth the wanderer. A tale	1820	.
12 December 1820	Mackenzie	Mackenzie, Sir George	Jus regivm; or, The just, and solid foundation of monarchy in general, and more especi…	1684	For Buchanan, see WG's diary for 1809-03-16.WG rea…
12 December 1820	[Museum] Du Maurier	Du Maurier, Louis d'Aubrey	Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Hollande et des autres provinces unies, ou l'on v…	1680	Possibly: WG reads Du Maurier in the British Museu…
13 December 1820	Edward V, çala				Unable to identify.
14 December 1820	Buchanan, Epithalamium	Buchanan, George	Mary Queen of Scots dowary, when married [to the] Douphine [sic] of France.	1711	A translation of George Buchanan's ‘Francisci Vale…
14 December 1820	Broghil, p. 60	Boyle, Roger, earl of Orrery (Baron Broghill)	Parthenissa, that most fam'd romance. Composed by the Right Hono[ra]ble. the Lord Brog…	1654	.
15 December 1820	Orrery, çala			1820-12	Possibly WG continues to read the work recorded on…
17 December 1820	Buchanan, Genethliacon, &c		Genethliacon		Unable to locate a title written by Buchanan.
27 December 1820	Pot of Basil	Keats, John	Isabella; or, The pot of basil. A story from Boccaccio	1820	.
25 January 1821	Grandeur des Romains, p. 30	Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat de	Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence	1734	Probably: . Republished in 1817, 1819, 1820 as Gra…
29 January 1821	Kenilworth, p. 57	Scott, Walter (published anonymously)	Kenilworth, a romance. By the author of ‘Waverley,''Ivanhoe,' &c. In three volumes.	1821
4 February 1821	Jonah	Quarles, Francis	Divine poems: The history of Jonah, Ester, Job, Sions sonnets, elegies …	1805-09	Possibly the work that WG records on -05: 1630 WG'…
9 February 1821	Hyde	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of	The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641.	1804-04	WG may be consulting one of the following in the B…
9 February 1821	De Religione Persarum	Pfeiffer, August	Fasciculus dissertationum philologicarum: De Talmude Judaeorum, De calumnis Judaeorum …	1670	Possibly:
10 February 1821	Bayle	Bayle, Pierre	Dictionnaire historique et critique.	1811-12	WG may be consulting one of the following:Recorded…
10 February 1821	Uni. Hist., çala	Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne	Discours sur l'histoire universelle a Monseigneur le Dauphin pour expliquer la suite d…	1791-12	WG may be consulting one of the following:Recorded…
11 February 1821	Glamorgan, p. 142	Birch, Thomas	An inquiry into the share which King Charles I had in the transactions of the Earl of …	1747	. WG's sale catalog lists:Birch's (Tho.) Inquiry r…
13 February 1821	Harris's Cha. I, çala	Harris, William	An historical and critical account of the life and writings of Charles I. king of Grea…	1758	OR Harris, William An historical and critical acco…
22 February 1821	De Divinatione, p. 94	Cicero, Marcus Tullius	De divinatione		Probably: . 44-43 B.C.
27 February 1821	Isocrate, pp. 25	Isocrates			Wrote numerous discourses and letters.Various date…
28 February 1821	Marino, st. 20	Marino, Giambattista	L'Adone, poema del Caualier Marino. Con gli argomenti del conte Fortuniano Sanuitale e…	1623	Probably: WG's sale catalog lists:Marino, l'Adone,…
8 March 1821	Monthly Rev.	Griffiths, Ralph (editor)	The monthly review, or literary journal	1749-1844	Probably: .
9 March 1821	Marino	Marino, Giambattista		1821-02	Probably: Unable to identify specific title. See -…
12 March 1821	Duperron	Anqueti-Duperron, Abraham	Zend-Avesta	1821-03	Possibly: Wrote pieces on religions and government…
14 March 1821	Remarks on Godwin, pp. 95	Anonymous	Remarks on Mr. Godwin's enquiry concerning population	1821	.
15 March 1821	Du Perron, çala			1821-03	See WG's diary for -12 and 1821-03-17.
16 March 1821	Castiglione, p. 26	Castiglione, Baldassare, count	Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldesar Castiglione. Hassi nel privilegio, et nella…	1528	Possibly: 1st editionOR Castiglione, Baldassare, c…
17 March 1821	Zendavesta, çala	Anqueti-Duperron, Abraham (translator)	Zend Avesta	1771	. (This French translation was based on a modern P…
19 March 1821	Pliny	Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the elder)	Historiae naturalis.		(Natural history) Date unknown (Pliny the elder wa…
8 April 1821	su gli Francesi, pp. 8				Unable to identify.
29 April 1821	Life of Jonathan Edwards, pp. 116	Hopkins, Samuel	The life and character of the late reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards: some time minister o…	1765	th year of his age.
2 May 1821	Wood on Homer, çala	Wood, Robert	A comparative view of the antient and present state of the Troade. To which is prefixe…	1767	WG's sale catalog lists:Wood's (Rob.) Essay on the…
3 May 1821	Denina, çala	Denina, Carlo	Delle rivoluzioni d'Italia libre ventiquattro. Di Carlo Denina.	1769-1770	In English: Denina, Carlo An essay on the revoluti…
15 May 1821	Black, Life of Tasso, Vol. I.	Black, John, of Colyton	Life of Torquato Tasso. With an historical and critical account of his writings	1810	. (2 volumes)
25 May 1821	Aminta, p. 24	Tasso, Torquato	Aminta. Favola Boscareccia di M. Torquato Tasso	1581	. WG's sale catalog lists:Tasso's (Torq.) Aminta, …
2 July 1821	Rinaldo, st. 29	Tasso, Torquato	Rinaldo	1562	.
14 July 1821	Ground agst Lilburne, p. 72	Hesilrige, Sir Arthur (published anonymously)	Lieut. Colonel John Lilburn tried and cast; or, his case and craft discovered. Wherein…	1653	. WG's sale catalog lists:Lilburne (Col.) Tried an…
22 July 1821	Young, Athens, pp. 87	Young, William	The spirit of Athens, being a political and philosophical investigation of the history…	1777	. Later published as: Young, William The history o…
28 August 1821	Hazlit, çala	Hazlitt, William	Table-talk; or, Original essays.	1807-06	Unable to determine specific title.WG records his …
4 September 1821	Cromaziano, çala	Buonafede, Appiano	Ritratti poetici, storici, e critici di vari uomini di lettere di Appio Annio de Faba …	1745	Cromaziano, Agatopista (pseudonym) Unable to ident…
13 September 1821	Edin. Review		The Edinburgh review	1802-1929	.
18 September 1821	Rayner, Tragedy	Baillie, Joanna	Rayner. A tragedy, in five acts	1804	. in Miscellaneous Plays. By Joanna Baillie. WG's …
10 October 1821	Innamorato, st. 29	Boiardo, Matteo Maria, count	Orlando innamorato	1483	. (incomplete at author's death, begun c. 1476)
3 November 1821	Agis, Home	Home, John	Agis. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, in Drury Lane.	1758
6 November 1821	Douglas	Home, John	Douglas. A tragedy. As it is acted in the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden…	1757
2 December 1821	Don Quixote, p. 88	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	1605	part 1, ; part 2, 1615 WG records reading two Engl…
11 December 1821	Anselmo, pp. 57				Unable to identify.
12 December 1821	Horne, for a Libel, pp. 69	Anonymous	The whole proceedings in the cause on the action brought by the Rt. Hon. Geo. Onslow, …	1770	OR a later trial recorded in WG's diary for 1793-0…
15 December 1821	Ricciardetto, st. 29	Forteguerri, Niccolò	Ricciardetto di Niccolò Carteromaco	1738	Cateromaco, Niccolò (pseudonym) .
23 December 1821	Sardanapalus	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Sardanapalus, a tragedy. The two Foscari, a tragedy. Cain, a mystery. By Lord Byron	1821	.
23 December 1821	Cain	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Sardanapalus, a tragedy. The two Foscari, a tragedy. Cain, a mystery. By Lord Byron.	1821
24 December 1821	Foscari	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Sardanapalus, a tragedy. The two Foscari, a tragedy. Cain, a mystery. By Lord Byron	1821	.
28 December 1821	Pirate, Vol. I	Scott, Walter	Pirate. A romance. By the author of ‘Waverley,' ‘Kenilworth.' &c.	1822	(3 volumes) [i.e. 1821]
27 January 1822	Journals, çala	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	Journals of the House of Commons.	1547	-AND/OR Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.…
30 January 1822	Walkley, çala	Walkley, Thomas	A new catalogue of the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, barons of England, Scotlan…	1652	Published many catalogs, some devoted to burgesses…
21 March 1822	King's Collection			1640-1661	Probably:The Thomason Tracts, a collection of Civi…
22 March 1822	Codrington	Codrington, Robert	The life and death, of the illustrious Robert Earl of Essex, &c. Containing at large t…	1646	. Conjecture based on WG's treatment of Essex in h…
24 March 1822	De Senectute, C. 1 to 13	Cicero, Marcus Tullius	Cato Maior de senectute		. composed 45-44 B.C.
4 April 1822	Macaulay, England, Vol. II, 100 pp	Macaulay, Catherine	The history of England from the accession of James I. to the elevation of the House of…	1763-1783	. (8 volumes) This is the most complete (though no…
4 April 1822	Laud, Troubles, çala	Laud, William	The history of the troubles and tryal of the most reverend father in God, and blessed …	1693/4	. WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:History o…
7 April 1822	Graham Hamilton, p. 116	Lamb, Caroline, Lady	Graham Hamilton.	1822	WG's sale catalog lists:Graham Hamilton, Isabel, a…
11 April 1822	Algn Sidney, çala	Sidney, Algernon	History of the Comonwealth	1808-06	Unable to identify with certainty. WG may have bee…
18 April 1822	Castruccio, p. 14	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	Valperga; or, The life and adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca	1823	Probably: . WG records reading and revising Valper…
23 May 1822	Trenck, çala	Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von	The life, adventures, and uncommon escapes of Frederick, Baron von Trenck… Written by …	1821	OR Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von The life of Fre…
2 June 1822	Thiebault, çala				Unable to identify.
4 June 1822	Nigel, Vol. I, p. 120	Scott, Walter (published anonymously)	The fortunes of Nigel. By the author of ‘Waverley,' etc.	1822
8 June 1822	Brodie, çala	Brodie, George	A history of the British empire from the accession of Charles I. to the Restoration. W…	1822	. Unable to identify Balfour's Diurnal (referred t…
27 June 1822	Pulci, st. 41	Pulci, Luigi	Morgante Maggiore	1460	. begun in ; earliest surviving complete edition 1…
10 July 1822	Sismondi, çala	Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Leonard Simonde de	Histoire des républiques Italiennes du moyen âge	1809-1818	Possibly: . OR Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Leonard Simo…
19 August 1822	Bracebridge Hall, p. 65	Irving, Washington	Bracebridge Hall; or, the humorists. By Geoffrey Crayon	1822	Crayon, Geoffrey (pseudonym) . (2 volumes)
28 August 1822	Napoleon in Exile, p. 56	O'Meara, Barry E	Napoleon in exile; or, A voice from St. Helena. The opinions and reflexions of Napoleo…	1822	. . (2 volumes)
30 August 1822	Baillie, p. 215 to 246	Baillie, Robert	Letters and journals. Containing an impartial account of public transactions, civil, e…	1775	Aikin, Robert (transcriber) . (2 volumes) *** Add …
7 September 1822	Merivale, çala	Merivale, John Herman	The first two cantos of Richardetto, freely translated from the original burlesque poe…	1820	.
10 September 1822	Turpin				Unable to identify.WG reads Turpin in the British …
15 October 1822	Liberal, passim	Hunt, John (publisher)	The Liberal	1822-23	. Principal contributors: Lord Byron, William Hazl…
25 November 1822	Werner	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Werner, a tragedy	1822	. TRANSCRIPTION ERROR 1822-12-16: ‘Boccaaccio' sho…
24 December 1822	Loves of the Angels	Moore, Thomas	The loves of the angels, a poem	1823	. ?
25 December 1822	Maid Marian	Peacock, Thomas Love	Maid Marian. By the author of Headlong Hall	1822	.
11 January 1823	Bandello, Romeo, p. 49	Bandello, Matteo	Novelle	1554-1593	. (4 volumes) WG probably reads the 1813-14 editio…
12 January 1823	Viola, p. 40		Novelle	1823-01	Possibly one of Matteo Bandello's stories in (see …
15 January 1823	Southey, Vision of Jt	Southey, Robert	A vision of judgement	1821	.
20 January 1823	Peveril, p. 71	Scott, Walter (published anonymously)	Peveril of the Peak. By the author of ‘Waverley,' ‘Kenilworth,' &c. … In four volumes.	1822	TRANSCRIPTION ERROR: THE FOLLOWING SHOULD BE Carte…
4 March 1823	Cartés Ormond	Carte, Thomas	A history of the life of James, duke of Ormond, from his birth in 1610, to his death i…	1735-36	(3 volumes) WG's History of the Commonwealth cites…
12 March 1823	Nalson	Nalson, John	An impartial collection of the great affairs of state	1682-1683	. (2 volumes) OR Nalson, John Phelps, John England…
14 March 1823	Carte	Carte, Thomas	A collection of original letters and papers, concerning the affairs of England, from t…	1739	. (2 volumes) WG's History of the Commonwealth cit…
10 April 1823	Ada Reis, fin	Lamb, Caroline, Lady	Ada Reis, a tale. In three volumes	1823	.
13 May 1823	Blake	Blake, Robert, Admiral	History of the Commonwealth	1644	Possibly: Unable to identify a specific title by B…
4 June 1823	Quentin Durward, fin	Scott, Walter (published anonymously)	Quentin Durward. By the author of ‘Waverley,' ‘Peveril of the Peak,' &c.	1823	(3 volumes)
3 July 1823	London Institution; Ragland		The humble petition of the inhabitants of the county of Dorset, presented to His Majes…	1648	Possibly: th of July, 1645; with His Majesty's gra…
8 July 1823	Tho. Hollis, &c	Hollis, Thomas	Memoirs of Thomas Hollis, Esq….	1815-04	WG may be reading the correspondence and papers of…
15 July 1823	sir R Bulstrode	Bulstrode, Sir Richard	Memoirs and reflections upon the reign and government of King Charles I and King Charl…	1721	ORManuscripts and letters related to Bulstrode in …
18 July 1823	Lilburne	Lilburne, John		1647	Unable to identify specific title read on this dat…
26 October 1823	No Paul, p. 215				Unable to identify.
10 November 1823	Army List			1642	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:List of the…
22 November 1823	Three Brothers, Vol. I	Pickersgill, Joshua	The three brothers. A romance.	1803	(4 volumes)
1 January 1824	Hatsel	Hatsell, John	Precedents of proceedings in the House of Commons. With observations relating to privi…	1641	WG reads Hatsel in the British Museum on 1824-01-0…
2 January 1824	St Ronan's Well, p. 150	Scott, Sir Walter	St. Ronan's well. By the author of ‘Waverley,' etc.	1824	(3 volumes)
6 February 1824	Commonwealth, read	Godwin, William	History of the commonwealth of England from its commencement to the restoration of Cha…	1824-1828	. (4 volumes) WG reads the proofs of Volume I on 1…
13 February 1824	Albigenses, Vol. I.	Maturin, Charles Robert	The Albigenses	1824	.
19 February 1824	Inesilla, pp. 202	Ollier, Charles	Inesilla, or The tempter. A romance. With other tales	1824	.
20 February 1824	Byron's Deformed	Byron, George Gordon, Baron	The deformed transformed. A drama.	1824
5 March 1824	She Would If She Could	Etherege, George	She would if she cou'd. A comedy acted at His Highnesse the Duke of York's theatre.	1668
17 March 1824	Richard III, Lingard	Lingard, John	The history of England, from the first invasion of the Romans to the accession of Henr…	1819-1830	. (subtitle varies)WG's sale catalog lists:Lingard…
18 March 1824	Bacon, Henry VII, çala	Bacon, Francis	The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seuenth	1622	. WG's sale catalog lists:Bacon's (Fr.) History of…
20 March 1824	More, Richard III	More, Sir Thomas	The historie of the pitifull life, and unfortunate death of Edward the Fifth, and the …	1641
21 March 1824	Spy, p. 200	Cooper, James Fenimore	The spy, a tale of the neutral ground. By the author of ‘Precaution.'	1821
26 March 1824	Don Juan, C. 15, 16	Byron, George Gordon, Baron	Don Juan.	1824	(Cantos XV and XVI)
3 April 1824	Pioneers, Vol. II, p. 133	Cooper, James Fenimore	The pioneers; or, The sources of the Susquehanna. A descriptive tale.	1823	(2 volumes)
12 April 1824	Cibber, çala	Cibber, Theophilus	An apology for the life of Mr. T--------- C-----, comedian. Being a proper sequel to t…	1819-04	Probably the following work, previously recorded o…
14 April 1824	Mrs Sheridan, çala	Sheridan, Frances Chamberlaine	Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, extracted from her own journal, and now first publishe…	1761	Possibly one or more of the following: OR Sheridan…
21 April 1824	Theo. Cibber, çala	Cibber, Theophilus	The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the time of Dean Swift. Compil…	1753	Possibly: WG's sale catalog lists:Cibber's Lives o…
23 April 1824	Holt White, çala			1824-04	WG writes to Holt White on -27. He could be asking…
25 April 1824	Raleigh, çala	Raleigh, Sir Walter		1806-04	See WG's earlier reading of Raleigh in the diary f…
28 April 1824	Blount, çala	Blount, Charles	The miscellaneous works of Charles Blount, to which is prefix'd the life of the author…	1695	Possibly: WG's sale catalog lists:Blount (Cha.) Mi…
7 May 1824	T C, Four Letters	Cibber, Theophilus	Four original letters: viz. Two from a husband to a gentleman and two from a husband t…	1739
9 May 1824	Maseres	Maseres, Francis (editor)	Occasional essays on various subjects chiefly political and historical, extracted part…	1809	WG's sale catalog lists:Masseres (Baron) Occasiona…
16 June 1824	London Institution, Upcot		London literary gazette and journal of belles lettres, arts, sciences, etc.	1824-10	Upcot is an acquaintance of WG; see WG's diary for…
17 June 1824	Lawmind	Wildman, John	Putney projects; or, the old serpent in a new forme. Presenting to the view of all the…	1647	Lawmind, John (pseudonym) WG reads this piece in t…
17 June 1824	Redgauntlet, p. 70	Scott, Sir Walter	Redgauntlet. A tale of the eighteenth century. In three volumes.	1824
6 July 1824	Our Village, çala	Mitford, Mary Russell	Our village. Sketches of rural character and scenery. First series.	1824
11 July 1824	Settle, Ibrahim, acts 1 & 2	Settle, Elkanah	Ibrahim, the illustrious bassa. A tragedy.	1677
2 August 1824	Clarendon	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of	A brief view and suvey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in …	1676	Possibly: . WG's sale catalog lists:Clarendon's Da…
2 August 1824	Hobbes	Hobbes, Thomas	Humane nature	1797-06	Unable to identify specific title. WG's diary reco…
2 August 1824	Sidney, çala			1808-05	Unable to identify specific title. WG records read…
10 August 1824	Vane, &c	Vane, Sir Henry	The life and death of Sir Henry Vane, Kt.; or, A short narrative of the main passages …	1662	Unable to identify specific title.WG reads items b…
15 August 1824	Whitlocke, Embassy	Whitlocke, Bulstrode	A journal of the Swedish ambassy in the year M.DC.LIII. and M.DC.LIV. from the commonw…	1772	WG's sale catalog lists:Whitlocke's (Lord Commissi…
27 August 1824	Barebone	Whitlocke	History of the Commonwealth	1824-08	Unable to identify specific title read on -27. WG …
30 August 1824	Pilot, p. 162	Cooper, James Fenimore	The pilot. A tale of the sea	1823	. (2 volumes)
8 September 1824	Ellis	Ellis, Sir Henry	Original letters illustrative of English history. Including numerous royal letters fro…	1824	Probably: (3 volumes) (1st series) 1825-1827 (2nd …
11 September 1824	Harleian	Harley, Edward, earl of Oxford	The Harleian miscellany or, a collection of scarce, curious, and entertaining pamphlet…	1744	Possibly : Oldys, William (editor) (8 volumes) The…
11 September 1824	Du Crow				Unable to identify.
11 September 1824	The Reaper				Unable to identify.
17 September 1824	Vertot, Revolutions de Suéde, p. 106	Vertot, René Aubert de	Histoire des révolutions de Suède, où l'on voit les changemens qui sont arrivéz dans c…	1718	WG's sale catalog lists:Vertot, Revolutions de Por…
22 September 1824	Tales, Irving, p. 190	Irving, Washington	Tales of a traveller. By Geoffrey Crayon.	1824	Crayon, Geoffrey (pseudonym) ?
24 September 1824	L C L's, ms	Lamb, Caroline, Lady			Unable to identify specific title.WG may have read…
5 October 1824	Barus				Unable to identify.
5 October 1824	Brydges on Byron, çala	Brydges, Sir Egerton	Letters on the character and poetical genius of Lord Byron	1824	.
12 October 1824	Burke, çala	Burke, Edmund	The works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. Collected in three volumes.	1792	Unable to identify specific title. Possibly WG rea…
14 October 1824	Life of Burke, çala	Prior, James	Memoir of the life and character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke. With specimens of his…	1824
20 October 1824	C Williams, Vol. I	Godwin, William	Caleb Williams	1794	. Republished in 1795, 1796, 1797, 1816, 1818 (Phi…
21 October 1824	Spirit<s> of the Age	Hazlitt, William	The spirit of the age; or, Contemporary portraits of William Godwin and others. By Wil…	1825	WG's sale catalog lists:Spirit of the Age, or Cont…
21 October 1824	Attic Miscellany	Author unknown	The Attic miscellany; and characteristic mirror of men and things. Including the Corre…	1789-1791	(3 volumes) [i.e. 1792]: 1st collected edition.
19 November 1824	Inheritance, Vol. I	Ferrier, Susan Edmondstone (published anonymously)	The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. In three volumes.	1824
20 November 1824	Anastasius, p. 60	Hope, Thomas	Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek. Written at the close of the eighteenth century	1819	. (3 volumes)
5 December 1824	Dallas on Byron	Dallas, Robert Charles	Recollections of the life of Lord Byron from the year eighteen hundred and eight to th…	1824	.
10 January 1825	Marriage, p. 139. 2 livres	Ferrier, Susan Edmondstone	Marriage, a novel	1818	. (3 volumes)
14 January 1825	Scots' Peerage	Douglas, Sir Robert	The peerage of Scotland, containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobi…	1764	AND Crawford, George The peerage of Scotland, cont…
2 February 1825	Hubert, Tragedy				Unable to identify.
6 February 1825	Gamba, passim	Gamba, Pietro, count	A narrative of Lord Byron's last journey to Greece. Extracted from the journal of Coun…	1825
18 February 1825	Petition, Dec. 1646			1646	WG's History of the Commonwealth (3: 268-9) cites …
14 April 1825	London Institution, 1647	Rushworth	Historical collections	1647	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
3 May 1825	Life of Kemble, p. 250	Boaden, James	Memoirs of the life of John Philip Kemble, Esq. Including a history of the stage, from…	1825	. (2 volumes) 2908. L Lincoln, p. 97 1825-05-05Una…
14 June 1825	Prince Tarquin	Behn, Aphra	The fair jilt; or, The history of Prince Tarquin and Miranda	1688	.
16 June 1825	Ines de Castro	de Castro, Ines	Sonetos.	1824	Unable to identify with certainty. The most likely…
2 July 1825	Crusaders, p. 58	Scott, Sir Walter	Tales of the crusaders, in four volumes. By the author of ‘Waverley.'	1825
14 July 1825	Generous Boy				Unable to identify.
27 July 1825	Strype	Strype, John		1643-1737	Possibly: ( ) Unable to identify specific title.St…
27 July 1825	Dugdale	Dugdale, Sir William (first published anonymously)	A short view of the late troubles in England; briefly setting forth, their rise, growt…	1681	. OR Dugdale, Sir William A short view of the late…
28 July 1825	Case of the Army	Everard, R., Lieutenant General (and ten others)	The case of the Armie truly stated. Together with the mischiefes and dangers that are …	1647	Fairfax, Thomas, Lord (answer) Wildman, Sir John (…
1 August 1825	Lilburne	Lilburne, John		1825	Unable to identify specific title read on this dat…
4 August 1825	Waller, Panegyric	Waller, Edmund	A panegyric to my Lord Protector	1655	.
5 August 1825	Wordsworth, on Cha. I, p. 88	Wordsworth, Christopher	‘Who wrote Eikon basilike?' considered and answered in two letters, addressed to His G…	1824	AND Documentary supplement to ‘Who wrote Eikon bas…
6 August 1825	Sidney papers, Blencowe, çala	Leicester, Robert Sidney, 2	Sydney papers, consisting of a journal of the Earl of Leicester, and original letters …	1825	nd Earl of Blencowe, Robert Willis (editor) WG's s…
14 August 1825	Petrarca, Trionfo I	Petrarca, Francesco	Trionfi.	1350-1374	composed published 1485 WG's sale catalog lists:Pe…
17 August 1825	Observer Observed, on Warton's Spenser	Huggins, William	The observer observ'd; or, Remarks on a certain curious tract, intitled, Observations …	1756	.
18 August 1825	Rainsborough	Whitelocke	Memorials of the English affairs	1648	WG researches Thomas Rainborowe (d. ) in the Briti…
23 August 1825	Agreement of People	Authors unknown	An agreement of the people for a firme and present peace upon grounds of common-right …	1647	In Thomason Tracts (also known as the King's Tract…
25 August 1825	Petrarca, Canzone 1	Petrarca, Francesco	Rime in vita di Laura; Rime in morte di Laura.	1337	separate poems composed c. to c. 1359; main plan 1…
11 September 1825	Tiraboschi, sul Petrarca	Tiraboschi, Girolamo	Storia della poesie italiana scritta da Girolamo Tiraboschi tratta dalla sua grand' op…	1803	. (3 volumes in 2) Earlier publication: Tiraboschi…
14 September 1825	Richardsoniana	Richardson, Jonathan	Richardsoniana; or, occasional reflections on the moral nature of man; suggested by va…	1776	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Jonathan Ri…
3 October 1825	Derrick	Derrick, Charles	Memoirs of the rise and progress of the royal navy. By Charles Derrick…	1806	.WG reads Derrick in the British Museum on 1825-10…
4 October 1825	Idris, p. 84	Wieland, Christoph Martin	Idris. Ein heroisch-comisches Gedicht. Fünf Gesänge.	1768	Possibly:
25 October 1825		Guthry, Henry	Historical collections	1823-05	WG's History of the Commonwealth discusses this to…
31 October 1825	Moore, Life of Sheridan, p. 160	Moore, Thomas	Memoirs of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.	1825	(3 volumes)
7 November 1825	S R Worsley	Worsley, Sir Richard	The history of the Isle of Wight	1781	. Sir Richard Worsley brought to conclusion the Hi…
11 November 1825	State Paper Office, Sep. 30				Probably:Letter Book of the Committee at Derby Hou…
12 December 1825	Lilburne, & mr Smith	Author unknown	A true and most sad relation of the hard usage and extrem cruelty used on Captain Wing…	1642	Possibly: th of February, 1642. [i.e. 1643]
1 January 1826	Vita d'Alfieri, p. 40	Alfieri, Vittorio	Vita di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti scritto da esso	1804	. in Opere postume di Vittorio Alfieri.
10 January 1826	Omegarus, Vol. I	Grainville, Jean-Baptiste de	The last man; or, Omegarus and Syderia. A romance in futurity.	1806	(2 volumes) Translation of: Grainville, Jean-Bapti…
19 January 1826	Henderson	Charles, King of Great Britain and Ireland	The papers which passed at New-castle betwixt His sacred Majestie and Mr. Al: Henderso…	1649	Henderson, Alexander . AND Perinchief, Richard The…
6 February 1826	Last Man, fin	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	The last man. In three volumes. By the author of Frankenstein	1826	. WG's sale catalog lists:Shelley's (Mrs.) Last Ma…
10 February 1826	Quarter-master general Ireton	Clarendon,	History of the Rebellion	1804-04	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
18 February 1826	Bramblety<r>e, p. 135	Smith, Horace	Brambletye House; or, Cavaliers and roundheads. A novel. By one of the authors of the …	1826	(3 volumes)
20 February 1826	Nov. 15			1822-03	WG reads in the British Museum on this date. See a…
6 March 1826	Rolle	Rolle, Henry	Un abridgement des plusieurs cases et resolutions del common ley, alphabeticalment dig…	1668	Hale, Matthew (editor) . OR Rolle, Henry D'Anvers,…
11 March 1826	End of Vol. II: read	Godwin, William	The history of the Commonwealth of England from its commencement to the Restoration of…	1824-1828	. (4 volumes) The second volume was published in A…
13 March 1826	Pennant	Pennant, Thomas	A tour in Scotland, 1769	1771	Probably: . OR Pennant, Thomas A tour in Scotland …
11 April 1826	Journal do		Journals of the House of Commons	1822-01	Possibly: (see annotation of WG's diary -27). WG r…
19 April 1826	Lilburne	Lilburne, John		1826	Unable to identify specific title read on this dat…
24 April 1826	Rd Baxter	Baxter, Richard	A holy commonwealth, or Political aphorisms. Opening the true principles of government…	1646	Probably: ORPreviously recorded in WG's diary for …
25 April 1826	Stubbe	Stubbe, Henry	Malice rebuked; or, A character of Mr. Richard Baxters abilities. And a vindication oe…	1659	. OR Stubbe, Henry An essay in defence of the good…
27 April 1826	Harrington	Harrington, James	Noah's dove; or, An epistle of peace, directed to his entirely affected brethren, the …	1645	Possibly: OR Harrington, James Certaine queries, p…
28 April 1826	Rogers	Rogers, John	A vindication of that prudent and honourable knight, Sir Henry Vane, from the lyes and…	1659	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Rogers, Vin…
29 April 1826	Mohicans, p. 73	Cooper, James Fenimore	The last of the Mohicans. A narrative of 1757. By the author of ‘The spy.'	1826	(3 volumes)
3 May 1826	Henry Denne	Denne, Henry	The Levellers design discovered; or, The anatomie of the late unhappie mutinie. Presen…	1649	WG reads this piece in the Thomason Tracts (also k…
5 May 1826	Woodstock, p. 58	Scott, Walter	Woodstock; or, The cavalier. A tale of the year sixteen hundred and fifty-one. By the …	1826	(3 volumes)
8 May 1826	Burford	White, Francis	A true relation of the proceedings in the businesse of Burford. With other discourse o…	1649	WG reads this piece in the Thomason Tracts in the …
3 June 1826	Woolston, Thundering Legion, pp. 112	Woolston, Thomas	A defence of the miracle of the thundering legion against a dissertation of Walter Moy…	1726
6 June 1826	Overton	Overton, Richard	Mans mortallitie; or, A treatise wherein ‘tis proved, both theologically and philosoph…	1643	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Richard Ove…
13 June 1826	sir Rd Cox	Cox, Sir Richard	Hibernia anglicana; or, The history of Ireland from the conquest thereof by the Englis…	1689	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Cox, Histor…
14 June 1826	Blondeville, Vol. I	Radcliffe, Ann Ward	Gaston de Blondeville, or the court of Henry III. Keeping festival in Ardenne, a roman…	1826
15 June 1826	Cromwel	Caulfield, James (compiler)	Cromwelliana. A chronological detail of events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged. F…	1810	Stace, Machell (compiler?) AND Fletcher, Henry (ge…
20 June 1826	Pecorone, p. 22	Fiorentino, Giovanni	Il pecorone. Nel quale si contengono cinquanta novelle antiche, belle d'inventione et …	1554	WG's sale catalog lists:Giovanni Fiorentino, il Pe…
21 June 1826	St Albans Abbey, C. I	Radcliffe, Ann Ward	Gaston de Blondeville, or the court of Henry III. Keeping festival in Ardenne, a roman…	1826
28 June 1826	Sense & Sensibility, p. 50	Austen, Jane (published anonymously)	Sense and sensibility. A novel. In three volumes. By a lady.	1811
30 June 1826	Kelly, Reminiscences	Kelly, Michael	Reminiscences of Michael Kelly of the King's Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, inc…	1826	Hook, Edward Theodore
6 July 1826	Reynolds, Vol. II, p. 103	Reynolds, Joshua	Complete works	1794-05	Possibly: in one of the collections recorded in WG…
14 July 1826	Hazlit, 2 pp	Hazlitt, William			Probably: Unable to identify specific title.
14 July 1826	Chiverton, p. 100	Ainsworth, William Harrison	Sir John Chiverton. A romance.	1826
14 July 1826		Lilburne, John	A just reproof to Haberdashers'-Hall; or, An epistle, writ by Lt. Col. J. Lilburn to f…	1651	AND Lilburne, John L. Colonel John Lilburne his ap…
27 July 1826	Lothian	Lothian, James (signatory)	Three letters concerning the surrender of many Scotish lords to the High Sheriffe of t…	1648	Probably: Wilbraham, Roger (signatory) OR Lothian,…
7 August 1826	Cooke	Cook, John	Monarchy, no creature of God's making, &c. Wherein is proved by Scripture and reason, …	1651	OR Cook, John Vindication of the professors and pr…
15 August 1826	Eus. Andrews	Lloyd, David	The statesmen and favourites of England since the Reformation	1665	. ; reissued 1670 AND Heath, James A brief chronic…
15 August 1826	Holcroft, Vol. I.				Unable to identify specific title.
19 August 1826	Orphan	Holcroft, Thomas	Deaf and dumb; or, The orphan protected. An historical drama in five acts. Performed b…	1801	Possibly: Bouilly, Jean Nicolas th , 1801 . Conjec…
22 August 1826	Neuville	Baillet, Adrien	Histoire de Hollande, depuis la Trève de 1609 ou finit Grotius, jusqu'à nôtre tems	1670	Possibly: Neuville, Balthasar Hezeneil de la (pseu…
24 August 1826	De Wit	de Witt, Johan	Lettres et négotiations entre Mr. Jean de Witt, Conseiller Pensionnaire … et Messieurs…	1725	OR Verhoeven Freschot, Casimir (translator) Histoi…
25 August 1826	Chr. Love	Cobbett, William	Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and oth…	1809-1811	(9 volumes) (also known as Howell's State trials.)…
29 August 1826	Massey	Massey, Sir Edward	The declaration of Major Generall Massey. And eighty other English officers and comman…	1650	OR Charles, King of England A letter from the King…
30 August 1826	Drummd	Bate, George	Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia, simul ac juris regii et parlamentarii brevis enar…	1649	Veridicus Theodorus (pseudonym) WG's History of th…
30 August 1826	Begin Ireton	Boyle, Roger, Earl of Orrery	A collection of the state letters of the Right Honourable Roger Boyle, the first Earl …	1742	Morrice, Thomas . WG's History of the Commonwealth…
2 September 1826	Todd, Milton, 1826, çala	Milton, John	The poetical works of John Milton, with notes of various authors. With other illustrat…	1826	Todd, Henry John (editor) (6 volumes) : 3rd editio…
7 September 1826	Newspapers		The perfect diurnal	1826-09	Unable to identify specific title(s) read on this …
8 September 1826	Scotland	Balfour, Sir James	The historical works of Sir James Balfour	1824-1825	. (4 volumes) (includes Balfour's Annals of Scotla…
21 September 1826	Spotswood	Spottiswood, John	The history of the Church of Scotland, beginning the year of our Lord 203 and continue…	1655	Duppa, Brian (author of the Life) WG reads in the …
22 September 1826	Wendy Oxford	Oxford, Wendy	A prospective for King and subjects. Or A schort discovery of some treacheries acted a…	1652	Wendy Oxford authored the following tracts. Not kn…
25 September 1826	Nedham	Nedham, Marchamont	The case of the Commonwealth of England stated or the equity, utility and necessity of…	1649	Possibly one or more of the following: Nedham, Mar…
26 September 1826	Declaration v. Dutch	England and Wales. Parliament	The answer of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, to three papers delivered…	1652	United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Genera…
6 October 1826	Wicquefort	Wicquefort, Abraham van	L'histoire des provinces-unies des Pais-Bas, depuis le parfait établissement de cet ét…	1719	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Wiquefort, …
12 October 1826	Guildhall, Records				Unable to identify specific records with certainty…
16 October 1826	Declaration v. Holland			1826-09	See annotation of WG's diary for -26.WG reads in t…
18 October 1826	Van Tromp			1826-09	See annotation of WG's diary for -26.WG reads in t…
19 October 1826	Pauw			1826-09	See annotation of WG's diary for -26.WG reads in t…
23 October 1826	Ruyter	Brandt, Geeraert	La vie et les actions memorables du Sr. Michel de Royter, duc, chevalier & lt. amiral …	1677	. WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Vie de M.…
24 October 1826	Le Clerc	Le Clerc, Jean	Histoire des provinces-unies des Pays Bas, depuis la naissance de la Republique jusqu'…	1723-1728	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Le Clerc, H…
30 October 1826	Boreman	Boreman, Robert		1826-10	Possibly: Author of numerous tracts and sermons be…
7 November 1826	Petition	Whalley, Edward	To the supream authoritie of the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. The …	1652	, et al. WG read this piece in the Thomason Tracts…
15 November 1826	Life of Charlemont, p. 73	Hardy, Francis	Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, Knig…	1810
17 November 1826	Campbel			1826-11	Unable to identify.WG reads in the British Museum …
18 November 1826	Vindication of C, pp. 76	Wagstaffe, Thomas	A vindication of K. Charles the martyr; proving that His Majesty was the author of Eik…	1691	. WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Wagstaff,…
19 November 1826	Amphitryon, çala			1668	Unable to identify specific titles.There are many …
20 November 1826	April 20	Whitlocke	Memorials of English Affairs	1653	WG's History of the Commonwealth discusses the eve…
22 November 1826	“This mighty parliament.”	Whitlocke	Memorials of English Affairs	1648	The item appears to be a quotation, not a title.In…
23 November 1826	R Coke	Coke, Roger	A detection of the court and state of England during the four last reigns, and the int…	1694	4th edition: Continued thro' the reigns of King Wi…
23 November 1826	Mystery	Author unknown	The mystery of the good old cause briefly unfolded. In a catalogue of such members of …	1660	WG reads in the British Museum on 1826-11-23.
24 November 1826	Addresses		Several Proceedings	1826-11	See annotation of WG's diary for -20. WG's History…
27 November 1826	Milton	Milton, John	Joannis Miltoni Angli Pro populo Anglicano defensio secunda. Contra infamem libellum a…	1804-05	Previously recorded on -28: 1654 ORPreviously reco…
29 November 1826	Cobbet	Cobbett, William	State trials	1826-08	previously recorded on -25 and 1813-03-16 or Parli…
2 December 1826	State Paper Office, Apr. 30			1653	WG's History of the Commonwealth discusses Cromwel…
3 December 1826	Parliamentary Diary, çala				Unable to identify.WG's History of the Commonwealt…
3 December 1826	First Love	Cumberland, Richard	First love, a comedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. By Richard Cumberlan…	1795
4 December 1826	Z Grey	Grey, Zachary	An impartial examination of the third volume of Mr. Daniel Neal's History of the Purit…	1737	WG reads in the British Museum on 1826-12-04.
8 December 1826	Eltonhead		Parliamentary History	1653	WG searches for information on Eltonhead, one of f…
9 December 1826	Robinhood, by W				Unable to identify with certainty.
1 January 1827	Exact Relation	L. D., member of the late parliament	An exact relation of the proceedings and transactions of the late Parliament, their be…	1653	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Exact Relat…
8 January 1827	Carey	Beatson, Robert	A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland; or, a complete regist…	1786	WG's History of the Commonwealth (8:450) treats Ed…
8 January 1827	Truth, p. 105				Unable to identify.
15 January 1827	Wood	Wood, Anthony à	Universitatis oxoniensis historia et antiquitates. Duobus voluminibus comprehensae	1674	Probably: . WG reads Wood in the British Museum. T…
29 January 1827	Wilhelm Meister, p. 90	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre	1795	Probably: . AND Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Wilhel…
29 January 1827	Tacitus, Historiæ, c. 4	Tacitus, Publius Cornelius	Cornelii Taciti historiarum (The histories of Tacitus)	1805	105 A.D. - ?WG's sale catalog lists:Taciti Opera, …
31 January 1827	35 Eliz	England and Wales	The statutes at large, conteyning all such acts which at any time heretofore haue been…	1618	Rastell, William (attributed to) Pulton, Ferdinand…
4 February 1827	Giovanni, acts 1, 2, 3				Unable to identify a three-act play with this titl…
13 February 1827	Broken Heart, act 1, 2	Ford, John	The broken heart. Acted by the King's Majesties servants at the private house in the B…	1633	. OR Ford, John Gifford, William (editor) The brok…
21 February 1827	Burford	White, Francis	A true relation of the proceedings in the businesse of Burford. With other discourse o…	1649	Unable to identify specific title read on this dat…
19 March 1827	State-Paper Office; committees			1782	Records in the State Paper Office include papers o…
9 April 1827	Worcester			1651	Unable to identify specific title read on this dat…
11 April 1827	Margaret Lyndsay, p. 100	Wilson, John	The trials of Margaret Lyndsay. By the author of ‘Lights and shadows of Scottish life.…	1823
24 April 1827	Pembroke			1822-01	WG's History of the Commonwealth (5:90) discusses …
25 April 1827	Prairie, p. 40	Cooper, James Fenimore	The prairie. A tale.	1827
1 May 1827	R C	Coke, Roger	A detection of the court and state of England during the four last reigns, and the int…	1694	Possibly: 4th edition: Continued thro' the reigns …
7 May 1827	Biddle	Biddle, John	Twelve arguments drawn out of the Scripture. Wherein the commonly received opinion tou…	1647	Possibly: I. H. WG reads this piece in the Thomaso…
8 May 1827	20 April			1653	Unable to identify specific title read on this dat…
9 May 1827	State Paper Office; Bradshaw	Bradshaw, John			WG's History of the Commonwealth (6:456, 458) disc…
16 May 1827	Fornication	Scobell, Henry	A collection of acts and ordinances in Parliament, from 3 November 1640 to 17 Septembe…	1657-1658	(2 parts) WG's sale catalog lists:Acts and Ordinan…
23 May 1827	Sequestrations			1643	WG's History of the Commonwealth (6:491-6) discuss…
25 May 1827	Cromwel	Cromwell, Oliver		1653	Unable to identify specific title(s) read on this …
1 June 1827	Dec. 16			1653	WG's History of the Commonwealth (6:593-4; 7:8) di…
12 June 1827	Milton	Milton, John		1826-11	WG's History of the Commonwealth (7:217-18) discus…
21 June 1827	Lavater	Lavater, Johann Caspar	Essays on physiognomy for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind. Writ…	1789	Holcroft, Thomas (translator) . (3 volumes) WG rea…
22 June 1827	Cony	Selwood, Samuel	A narrative of the proceedings of the Committee for preservation of the customes, in t…	1655	Possibly: OR England and Wales. Parliament. Perfec…
29 June 1827	State Paper Office; Cromwel	Cromwell, Oliver		1782	Unable to identify specific materials consulted. R…
6 July 1827	Nov. 8[th?]	Goddard, Guibon		1654	Kept a diary during his membership in the first pr…
9 July 1827	Webster, &c.	Crosby, Thomas	The history of the English Baptists from the Reformation to the beginning of the reign…	1738-40	Probably one or more of the following: OR Webster,…
13 July 1827	Fairfax Papers	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron	The Gentleman's Magazine	1827-07	WG's diary for -12 records that he travels to Maid…
16 July 1827	Muggleton	Muggleton, Lodowick	The acts of the witnesses of the spirit. In five parts. By Lodowick Muggleton, one of …	1699	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Muggleton, …
30 July 1827	Tho. Dutton	Author unknown	A treasonable plot discovered. With the names of those that are taken, and sent prison…	1654	WG's History of the Commonwealth (7:61) cites:Seve…
7 August 1827	C Gerard	Author unknown	A true relation of the great plot discovered against His Highness the Lord Protector. …	1654	(Thomason Tracts)WG's History of the Commonwealth …
9 August 1827	Henshaw	Author unknown	A true account of the late bloody and inhumane conspiracy against His Highness the Lor…	1654	(Thomason Tracts)WG's History of the Commonwealth …
13 August 1827	Jesuita	Penguião, João Rodrigues de Sá e Meneses (attributed to)	Panegyrici Cromwello scripti, unus a legato Protugallici Regis, alter a quodam Jesuita	1654	Possibly: . OR Previously recorded in WG's diary f…
14 August 1827	1st parlt			1826-09	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
4 September 1827	Venables			1826-08	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
6 September 1827	Scriptum contra Hispanos	Cromwell, Oliver	Scriptum domini protectoris reipublicae Angliae, Scotiae, Hispaniae, etc. Ex consensu …	1655	Milton, John (written by) . WG's Commonwealth (7:2…
10 September 1827	Morland	Morland, Sir Samuel	The history of the Evangelical churches of the valleys of Piedmont. Containing a most …	1658	WG reads this work in the British Museum. The Brit…
10 September 1827	Suède, p. 70	Vertot, René Aubert de	Histoire des révolutions de Suède, où l'on voit les changemens qui sont arrivéz dans c…	1824-09	Possibly the following work previously recorded in…
17 September 1827	Treaties	Great Britain	A collection of treaties of peace, commerce, and alliance, between Great Britain and o…	1781	Currently held by British Library.OR Dumont, Jean …
19 September 1827	Museum; Mariana				Unable to identify.
21 September 1827	Museum; Martinière				Unable to identify.
24 September 1827	Museum; Brienne				Unable to identify.
25 September 1827	James II	Macpherson, James	Originall papers, containing the secret history of Great Britain from the Restoration,…	1775	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Life of Jam…
2 October 1827	Protector Unveiled			1822-01	Unable to identify specific title.In History of th…
4 October 1827	Gootkin	Gookin, Vincent	The great case of transplantation in Ireland discussed; or, certain considerations, wh…	1655	WG reads at the British Museum on this date. The B…
8 October 1827	Jews	Huet, Pierre Daniel	Huetiana, ou pensées diverses de M. Huet, evesque d'Avranches.	1722	d'Olivet, P-J (published by) In his discussion of …
9 October 1827	Menasseh	Israel, Menasseh ben	Vindiciae Judaeorum; or, A letter in answer to certain questions propounded by a noble…	1656	OR Israel, Menasseh ben De termino vitae. Of the t…
12 October 1827	Vane			1656	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
14 October 1827	Douglas	Home, John	Douglas. A tragedy. As it is acted in the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden…	1821-11	Possibly the following, previously recorded in WG'…
19 October 1827	Remonstrance			1656	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
23 October 1827	Fra. Wright, p. 48	Wright, Frances (afterwards D'Arusmont)	A few days in Athens, being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Hercul…	1822
24 October 1827	Chamberlaine	Chamberlaine, Joseph	A new almanacke and prognostication for the yeare of our Lord 1649. Being the first …	1649	Possibly: . WG reads at the British Museum on this…
25 October 1827	Tovey	Tovey, D'Blossiers	Anglia Judaica; or, The history and antiquities of the Jews in England. Collected from…	1738	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Tovey, Angl…
30 October 1827	O C	Cromwell, Oliver		1656	Possibly: [Speech delivered to parliament 17 Septe…
2 November 1827	Quakers			1827-11	See annotation of WG's diary -06.WG's History of t…
2 November 1827	Tales of Cannongate, p. 65	Scott, Sir Walter	Chronicles of the Canongate. By the author of ‘Waverley.' In two volumes.	1827
6 November 1827	Penn	Penn, William	A collection of the works of William Penn, to which is prefixed a journal of his life,…	1726	(2 volumes) WG's History of the Commonwealth cites…
7 November 1827	Sewel	Sewel, William	The history of the rise, increase, and progress of the Christian people called Quakers…	1722	WG's sale catalog lists:Sewel's (W.) History of th…
8 November 1827	G Fox	Fox, George	A journal or historical account of the life, travels, sufferings, Christian experience…	1694	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell th of the 11 th month, 16…
9 November 1827	O'Briens, p. 95	Morgan, Sydney, Lady	The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys	1827	. (4 volumes)
14 November 1827	Naylor			1652	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
19 November 1827	Museum; Col. H C	Cromwell, Henry		1657	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
26 November 1827	C Butler	Butler, Charles	Historical memoirs respecting the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics, from the Ref…	1819	(4 volumes) , 1821 WG's History of the Commonwealt…
28 November 1827	Museum; Sindercombe	Sindercombe, Miles		1813-03	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
2 December 1827	Red Rover, p. 94	Cooper, James Fenimore	The Red Rover, a tale. By the author of ‘The spy,' etc	1827	. (3 volumes)
3 December 1827	Museum; Rex				Unable to identify.
11 December 1827	Standard	Medley, William (scribe)	A standard set up. Whereunto the true seed and saints of the Most High may be gathered…	1657	(Thomason Tracts)WG's History of the Commonwealth …
17 December 1827	Ireland	Curry, John	An historical and critical review of the civil wars in Ireland, from the reign of Quee…	1775	AND Fitzgibbon, John, first Earl of Clare The spee…
20 December 1827	Museum; Gordon's Ireland	Gordon, James	A history of Ireland, from the earliest accounts to the accomplishment of the union wi…	1805	(2 volumes) WG reads Gordon in the British Museum …
24 December 1827	Birchley	Birchley, William (pseudonym)	A zealous sermon, preached at Amsterdam, by a Jew whose name is Not-Rub. It being a He…	1642	Possibly one or more of the following: Austin, Joh…
3 January 1828	Venner			1827-03	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
5 January 1828	Killing no Murder	Allen, William	Killing noe murder. Briefly discoursed in three quaestions.	1657	Sexby, Edward (actual author?) (Thomason Tracts 16…
8 January 1828	Granger	Granger, James	A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution. Consisting…	1769-74	(2 volumes, with a supplement, consisting of corre…
10 January 1828	Violet	Violet, Thomas	A petition against the Jewes, presented to the Kings Majestie and the Parliament. Toge…	1661	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Thos. Viole…
15 January 1828	MSs.				Unable to identify specific manuscripts consulted.…
18 January 1828	Investiture			1826-09	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
21 January 1828	Blake	Blake, Robert, Admiral		1657	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
29 January 1828	Fairfax	Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke	The works of His Grace George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Containing his plays and m…	1775	Evans, Thomas (editor) Marvell, Andrew A collectio…
1 February 1828	C's Lords			1657	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
5 February 1828	Hartlib	Hartlib, Samuel	A description of the famous kingdom of Macaria; wherein the inhabitants live in great …	1641	OR Hartlib, Samuel A faithful and seasonable advic…
7 February 1828	C's Speech	Fiennes, Nathaniel (attributed to)	Monarchy asserted to be the best, most ancient and legall form of government. In a con…	1660	Probably: Whitlocke, Bulstrode (attributed to) WG'…
8 February 1828	City Match	Mayne, Jasper	Two plaies: The city match. A comoedy. And, the amorovs warre. A tragy-comoedy. Both l…	1658
9 February 1828	Match at Midnight	Rowley, William	A match at mid-night. A pleasant comoedie	1633	Middleton, Thomas (original writer) . Later publis…
25 February 1828	Museum; B[o?]tteley, &c.	Batteley, John	Antiquitates rutupinae. Editio secunda. [with] antiquitates S. Edmundi burgi ad annum …	1745	. WG reads in the British Museum on this date. The…
26 February 1828	Dumont			1827-09	See Annotation of WG's diary for -17.WG reads in t…
7 March 1828	General Morgan	Morgan, Sir Thomas, Major-General	Col. Morgan's letter concerning his taking the strong garrison of Kildrummie from the …	1654	Possibly: Hill, J. AND/OR Morgan, Sir Thomas, Majo…
11 March 1828	York, Memoirs	James, Duke of York	Memoirs of the most remarkable enterprises and actions of James Duke of York.	1681	OR James II, King of England Memoirs of the Englis…
12 March 1828	Carrington	Carrington, Samuel	The history of the life and death of His most serene Highness Oliver [Cromwell], late …	1659	WG reads in the British Museum on this date. The B…
13 March 1828	Prestwich	Prestwich, John	Prestwich's Respublica, or, A display of the honors, ceremonies and ensigns of the Com…	1787	(This edition also contains The death, funeral ord…
16 March 1828	L Hunt, p. 66	Hunt, Leigh	Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries, with recollections of the author's life and…	1828	Possibly: . (3 volumes) Conjecture based on WG's i…
24 March 1828	W Dell	Dell, William	The tryal of spirits both in teachers and hearers. Wherein is held forth the clear dis…	1653	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Trial of Sp…
30 March 1828	Hazlit, Napoleon, p. 66	Hazlitt, William	The life of Napoleon Buonaparte	1828-1830	.
1 April 1828	Anglesey	Ireland Court of Exchequer	The trial at bar between Campbell Craig, lessee of James Annesley, Esq., plaintiff, an…	1743	. (There are other versions.)
2 April 1828	Excise	Blackstone, William	Commentaries on the laws of England. By William Blackstone, Esq. Vinerian professor of…	1765-1769	Unable to identify specific title.Possibly: . (4 v…
10 April 1828	Hajji Baba, p. 122	Morier, James Justinian	The adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan	1824	. (3 volumes)
14 April 1828	Coleridge	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge, including the dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, an…	1828	Possibly: Conjecture based on date.
2 May 1828	Sterne, çala	Sterne, Laurence	Tristram Shandy	1828-05	Unable to identify specific title. Possibly WG beg…
5 May 1828	Shandy, p. 186	Sterne, Laurence	The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.	1760
8 May 1828	O'Hara, p. 48	Banim, John; Banim, Michael	Tales, by the O'Hara family. Containing Crohoore of the Bill-Hook, the Fetches, and Jo…	1825	. (3 volumes)
24 May 1828	Vane, &c.	Vane, Sir Henry		1824-08	Unable to identify specific title. For annotations…
1 June 1828	Buchanan, çala	Buchanan, George	The history of Scotland. Written in Latin, by George Buchanan. Faithfully rendered int…	1809-03	Probably the following work recorded in WG's diary…
3 June 1828	D'Israeli, çala	Disraeli, Isaac	Commentaries on the life and reign of Charles the first, King of England	1828	Possibly: . (5 volumes) (volumes 1-2) 1830 (volume…
4 June 1828	Hallam	Hallam, Henry	The constitutional history of England, from the accession of Henry VII to the death of…	1827	Possibly: . (4 volumes) WG reads in the British Mu…
13 June 1828	Hasted	Hasted, Edward	The history and topograhical survey of the county of Kent. Containing the ancient and …	1778-1799	Possibly: WG reads in the British Museum on this d…
23 June 1828	Burchet	Burchett, Josiah	A complete history of the most remarkable transactions at sea; from the earliest accou…	1720	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Burchet, Na…
24 June 1828	Long	Long, Edward	The history of Jamaica. Or general survey of the antient and modern state of that isla…	1774	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Long, Histo…
26 June 1828	Guzla, by Prosper Merimée	Merimée, Prosper	La Guzla; ou Choix de poesies illyriques, recueilles dans la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, la C…	1827
26 June 1828	Carvajal, by do	Merimée, Prosper	La Jacquerie, scènes féodales. Suivies de la famille de Carvajal, drame. Par l'auteur …	1828
26 June 1828	Granby, p. 86.	Lister, Thomas Henry	Granby. A novel. In two volumes	1826	. (3 volumes)
28 June 1828	Jaquerie, p. 50	Merimée, Prosper	La Jacquerie, scènes féodales. Suivies de la famille de Carvajal, drame. Par l'auteur …	1828
30 June 1828	Gilbert Earle, p. 100	Saint Leger, Francis Barry Boyle	Some account of the life of the late Gilbert Earle, Esq. Written by himself.	1824	(a novel)
9 July 1828	Titles of Honour	Walkley, Thomas	A catalogue of the dukes, marquesses, earles, viscounts, bishops, barons, of the kingd…	1664	Possibly: The earliest edition of this work is 163…
18 July 1828	Loyal Songs	Author unknown	A collection of loyal songs written against the Rump Parliament between the years 1639…	1731	Possibly: WG reads in the British Museum on this d…
24 July 1828	Vaydes			1818-08	Unable to identify specific title.WG's History of …
25 July 1828	Sampson	Sampson, Henry, Dr.		4460	‘Diary'Sloane MSS, No. Part of the collection of p…
12 August 1828	MSS.				Unable to identify the specific manuscripts WG con…
13 August 1828	Warbeck, p. 47	Gainsford, Thomas	The trve and wonderfvll history of Perkin Warbeck, proclaiming himselfe Richard the fo…	1820-04	Probably the following previously recorded in WG's…
15 August 1828	Horse-power				Unable to identify. WG reads in the British Museum…
21 August 1828	Museum; Flagellum	Heath, James	Flagellum; or, The life, death, birth and burial of Oliver Cromwell, the late usurper …	1663	WG reads this item in the British Museum on 1828-0…
29 August 1828	Symonds MS	Symonds, Richard		1644	Probably: [Civil war diaries]in the Harleian manus…
1 September 1828	W D Fellowes	Fellowes, W. D.	Historical sketches of Charles the First, Cromwell, Charles the Second, and the princi…	1828	. WG reads in the British Museum on this date. The…
2 September 1828	Usher	Parr, Richard	The life of the most reverend father in God, James Usher, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Arm…	1686	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Parr, Life …
16 September 1828	Pell	Hartlib, Samuel (writing to)			Probably: Pell, John Correspondence of John Pell, …
19 September 1828	Carte	Carte, Thomas	A history of the life of James, duke of Ormond, from his birth in 1610, to his death i…	1823-03	Probably the following item previously recorded in…
8 October 1828	Polygot	Walton, Brian	Biblia sacra polyglotta. Complectentia texta originales, Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Sa…	1654	. ?WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Polyglot…
10 October 1828	Bernard	Bernard, Nicholas	The life and death of the most reverend and learned father of our Church Dr. James Ush…	1656	WG's History of the Commonwealth cites:Bernard, ch…
27 October 1828	Lucky Mistake	Behn, Aphra	The lucky mistake. A new novel.	1689	Possibly:
28 October 1828	Hunter's Captivity, çala	Hunter, John Dunn	Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America from childhood to the age of…	1823
31 October 1828	Columbus, p. 45	Irving, Washington	A history of the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus.	1829	Possibly: (4 volumes) Conjecture based on WG's int…
4 November 1828	Tooke				Unable to identify.WG reads in the British Museum …
6 November 1828	Levesque	Lévesque, Pierre Charles	Histoire de Russie, tirée des chroniques originales, de pièces authentiques, et des me…	1782	Possibly: WG reads Levesque in the British Museum …
1 April 1828	Annesley, p. 56	Annesley, James	Memoirs of an unfortunate young nobleman return'd home from a thirteen years slavery i…	1743	Also see WG's diary for 1828-04-01.WG's sale catal…
11 November 1828	Manstein	Manstein, Christof Hermann	Memoirs of Russia, historical, political, and military, from the year MDCCXXVII, to MD…	1770	Hume, David (editor) . (Translated from the origin…
25 November 1828	Vivian Grey, p. 83	Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield	Vivian Grey	1826-1827	. (5 volumes)
27 November 1828	W Peck, Axholme	Peck, W.	A topographical account of the Isle of Axholme, being the West division of the Wapenta…	1815	. (Volume 1, but no more published.)WG reads Peck …
1 December 1828	Eugene			1828-12	Unable to identify, unless it is the same item WG …
8 December 1828	Elizabeth, p. 52				Unable to identify.
9 December 1828	Museum; Garzoni				Unable to identify.WG reads in the British Museum …
11 December 1828	Eugene, par lui même, çala	Savoye, Eugène de, Prince	Mémoires du prince Eugène de Savoie écrits par lui-même. Composées par le prince Cha. …	1809
18 December 1828	W M Lake				Unable to identify.WG reads in the British Museum …
19 December 1828	Blaquière	Blaquière, Edward	Narrative of a second visit to Greece, including facts connected with the last days of…	1825	Possibly: WG reads Blaquière in the British Museum…
23 December 1828	Duel				Unable to identify.WG reads in the British Museum …
29 December 1828	Otranto	Walpole, Horace	The castle of Otranto, a story. Translated by William Marshall, Gent. From the origina…	1765
1 January 1829	Disowned, p. 58	Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Baron	The disowned. By the author of ‘Pelham.'	1828
3 January 1829	Stratagem, 4/5	Farquhar, George	The beaux stratagem. A comedy. As it is acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market…	1707	Possibly: OR Cowley, Hannah The belle's stratagem.…
5 January 1829	Homer, Andromache	Homer	The first book of the Iliad; the parting of Hector and Andromache; and the shield of A…	1830	Probably: Sotheby, William (translator)
6 January 1829	Segur, Campagne 1812, p. 132	Ségur, Philippe-Paul, Général Comte	Histoire de Napoleon et de la Grande Armée pendant l'année 1812	1824	Probably: . (2 volumes)
20 January 1829	Aunt Margt's Mirror	Scott, Sir Walter	My aunt Margaret's mirror. By the author of Waverley.	1829	in The keepsake.
29 January 1829	Bohemian Brothers	Bochsa, Robert Nicolas Charles	The celebrated Bohemian melodies as sung … by the four Bohemian brothers. With English…	1829	Possibly: Among other similar publications of 1824…
6 February 1829	Matthew Wald, p. 125	Lockhart, John Gibson	The history of Matthew Wald.	1824
13 February 1829	Reginard Dalton, p. 60	Lockhart, John Gibson	Reginald Dalton. By the author of Valerius, and Adam Blair.	1823
16 February 1829	Recke, on Tirol, çala	Recke, Elise von der	Tagebuch einer Reise durch einem Theil Deutschlands und durch Italien in den Jahren 18…	1815	Translated into French: Recke, Elise von der Voyag…
24 February 1829	Jac. Ortis, p. 22	Ortis, Jacopo	Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis	1802	.
25 February 1829	Maffei	Maffei, Scipione	Dell'antica condizione di Verona ricerca istorica dedicata all'illustriss. e reverendi…	1719	Possibly: . OR Maffei, Scipione La Merope, tragedi…
28 February 1829	Cobbet, Reformation, p. 86	Cobbett, William	A history of the Protestant ‘Reformation,' in England and Ireland, showing how that ev…	1824
5 March 1829	Livy, &c, on Prospects	Livy (Titus Livius)	Ab urbe condita	1791-12	Possibly the following previously recorded by WG -…
8 March 1829	Promessi Sposi, p. 24	Manzoni, Alessandro	I promessi sposi. Storia milanese del secolo XVII. Scoperta e rifatta da Alessandro Ma…	1825
10 March 1829	Verona		Voyage … en Italie	1829-02	Unable to identify with certainty. Possibly Recke'…
12 March 1829	Keysler	Keyssler, Johann Georg	Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain. Giving a t…	1756-57	Possibly: The German title: Neueste Reisen durch D…
12 March 1829	Valerius, p. 140	Lockhart, John Gibson	Valerius, a Roman story.	1821	Conjecture based on WG's reading of other Lockhart…
13 March 1829	Baretti	Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio	An account of the manners and customs of Italy. With observations on the mistakes of s…	1768	Possibly: (2 volumes) Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Anto…
14 March 1829	Goldoni, Vita, p. 18	Goldoni, Carlo	Memoria del Signor Goldoni. Per servire alla storia della sua vita ed a quella del suo…	1788
19 March 1829	Elphin, p. 176	Peacock, Thomas Love	The misfortunes of Elphin	1829	. Conjecture based on WG's readings of Peacock.
23 March 1829	Byron's Narrative	Byron, John	The narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commodore in a late expedition around the …	1768
31 March 1829	Toscana		Voyage … en Italie	1829-02	Unable to identify with certainty. Possibly Recke'…
1 April 1829	Holcroft, çala				Unable to identify specific title.
3 April 1829	Sarsfield, Vol. I, II	Gamble, John	Sarsfield; or, Wanderings of youth. An Irish tale.	1814	(3 volumes)
3 April 1829	Florence		Voyage … en Italie	1829-02	Unable to identify with certainty. Possibly Recke'…
4 April 1829	Anglade, çala	Anglade, Joseph			Unable to identify specific title.
7 April 1829	Women, p. 179				Unable to identify.
11 April 1829	Sayings & Doings; Merton	Hook, Theodore Edward (published anonymously)	Sayings and doings. A series of sketches from life.	1824-1828	‘Merton' in
12 April 1829	Goethe, Life, p. 90	Bancroft, George	The life and genius of Goethe. With translations from his poetical works.	1824
13 April 1829	Fire Side, p. 94	Lloyd, Charles	Travels at home, and voyages by the fire-side. For the entertainment of of young perso…	1815	Possibly: (5 volumes) : 2nd editionOR Porter, Jane…
17 April 1829	Wordsworth, çala	Wordsworth, William	The poetical works of William Wordsworth	1827	Possibly: . Conjecture based on recent publication…
19 April 1829	Lamb, on Shakespear	Lamb, Charles	Tales from Shakespeare: designed for the use of young persons.	1806-12	Probably the following item previously recorded in…
19 April 1829	Cain	Byron, George Gordon, Baron	Sardanapalus, a tragedy; The two Foscari, a tragedy; Cain, a mystery.	1821
20 April 1829	Mirabeau, p. 16				Unable to identify specific title.
23 April 1829	Percy Anecdotes, çala	Percy, Scholto	The Percy anecdotes. Original and select [by] Scholto and Reuben Percy, brothers of th…	1821	Percy, Reuben
24 April 1829	Heaven & Earth	Byron, George Gordon, Baron	Heaven and earth. A mystery.	1823	First published in The Liberal, No. 2, 1 January 1…
24 April 1829	Don Juan, C. I	Byron, George Gordon, Baron	Don Juan	1819	. Cantos I-II published Cantos III-V 1821 Cantos V…
30 April 1829	Sadler, on Population, p. 58 + 38	Sadler, Michael Thomas	Ireland, its evils and their remedies. Being a refutation of the errors of the Emigrat…	1828	OR Sadler, Michael Thomas The law of population. A…
7 May 1829	Trial, Assault, Annesley			1828-04	See WG's diary for -01 and 1828-04-01.
8 May 1829	Two Lives, Vol. I	Boaden, James	The man of two lives.	1828	Possibly: (2 volumes) Conjecture based on WG's pre…
9 May 1829	Menzicoff, La Harpe	La Harpe, Jean François de	Menzicoff, ou, Les exilés. Tragedie. Précédée d'un Precis historique sur le prince Men…	1781	(Historical precis of 70 pages, an extract from Mé…
23 May 1829	Anne of Geirstein, p. 61	Scott, Sir Walter	Anne of Geierstein, or the fair maid of the mist. In three volumes.	1829
2 June 1829	De la Pryme	Pryme, Abraham de la		1671-1704	( ), Yorkshire antiquary. His Yorkshire collection…
3 June 1829	Pope, Prefaces, pp. 47	Pope, Alexander	The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. With notes and illustrations by himself and others. …	1824	Possibly: Unable to determine specific prefaces.WG…
10 June 1829	Magic Ring, p. 101	Damin, Louis	The magic ring; or, Ingratitude punished. An eastern tale.	1812	A.L.L. (translator) OR De la Motte Fouqué, Friedri…
23 June 1829	Walladmor, Vol. I	Häring, Georg W.	Walladmor. Freely translated into German from the English of Sir Walter Scott.	1825	(2 volumes) (Not by Scott, but written in German b…
28 June 1829	Humane Society, No. 55	Royal Humane Society	Annual report of the Royal Humane Society.	1775-1902
2 July 1829	Shipwreck, Canto II:	Falconer, William	The shipwreck. A poem. In three cantos. By a sailor.	1762	OR Byron, George Gordon, Baron Don Juan. Canto II.…
2 July 1829	Crabb, Dictionary	Crabb, George	An easy and entertaining selection of German prose and poetry. With a small dictionary…	1800	OR Crabb, George Universal technological dictionar…
5 July 1829	Index to History, 2 pp.			1829-07	Unable to identify specific author/title.Since WG …
9 July 1829	Devereux, p. 165.	Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Baron	Devereux. A tale. By the author of ‘Pelham.'	1829	Possibly: (3 volumes)
18 July 1829	Pelham, p. 92	Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Baron	Pelham; or the adventures of a gentleman	1828	. (3 volumes)
28 July 1829	Seneca, Trag., cala	Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)	Seneca his Tenne tragedies, translated into Englysh.	1581	[Tragedies]date unknown (Seneca was born c. 4 B.C.…
30 July 1829	Elia, çala	Lamb, Charles	Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine.	1823	Lamb wrote essays under the pseudonym Elia for Joh…
1 August 1829	De Vere, p. 70	Ward, Robert Plumer	De Vere; or, The man of independence. By the author of ‘Tremaine.'	1827	(3 volumes)
4 August 1829	Lives of Novelists	Scott, Sir Walter	Lives of the novelists, by Sir Walter Scott.	1825	WG reads in the British Museum on this date. The B…
6 August 1829	Emilius in ye World, p. 145	La Fontaine, August Heinrich Julius	Odd enough, to be sure; or, Emilius in the world. A novel. Translated by John Hemet.	1802	Hemet, John (translator)
8 August 1829	Reprobate, p. 218	La Fontaine, August Heinrich Julius	The reprobate. A novel. Translated by the author of ‘The wife and the mistress,' etc.	1802	Charlton, Mary (translator)
10 August 1829	Bourru Bienfaisant	Goldoni, Carlo	Le bourru bienfaisant. Comédie in trois actes et en prose de M. Goldoni … representée …	1771	.
21 August 1829	Rinaldini, Vol. I	Vulpius, Christian August	The history of Rinaldo Rinaldini, captain of banditti. Translated from the German of V…	1800	Probably: (3 volumes)
24 August 1829	Monk, çala	Lewis, Matthew Gregory	The monk, a romance. In three volumes.	1796	Probably:
24 August 1829	Robinhood				Unable to identify.WG reads Robinhood in the Briti…
28 August 1829	Rinaldini			1829-08	Possibly WG continues to read the item recorded on…
29 August 1829	Nollekens, çala	Smith, John Thomas	Nollekens and his times; comprehending a life of that celebrated sculptor. And memoirs…	1828	Possibly:
1 September 1829	Bravo of Venice, p. 72	Zschokke, Heinrich	The bravo of Venice. A romance. Translated from the German by M. G. Lewis.	1805	Probably: Lewis, Matthew Gregory (translator) : 2n…
2 September 1829	Salvator				Unable to identify specific title.WG reads in the …
3 September 1829	Gilblas, çala	Le Sage, Alain Rene	Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Par monsieur Le Sage. Enrichie de figures.	1715	(4 volumes) : vols. 1-2 1724: vol. 3 1735: vol. 4
3 September 1829	Sismondi	Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Leonard Simonde de	Histoire des républiques Italiennes du moyen âge	1822-07	Possibly the following items previously recorded i…
4 September 1829	Italian Brigands, M C				Unable to identify specific title.
4 September 1829	Indicator, çala	Hunt, Leigh	The indicator.	1819	No. 1-76. 13 October – 21 March 1821
4 September 1829	Duval	Author unknown	A true and impartial relation of the birth and education of Claudius du Val. Together …	1669	OR Butler, Samuel To the memory of the most renouw…
8 September 1829	Gore; Lettre de Cachet, p. 86.	Gore, Catherine Grace	The lettre de cachet. A tale. The reign of terror. A tale.	1827
10 September 1829	Cyril Thornton, p. 50	Hamilton, Thomas	The youth and manhood of Cyril Thornton. In three volumes.	1827
17 September 1829	Great St Bernard, çala	Sotheby, William	Julian and Agnes, or The monks of the Great St. Bernard. A tragedy in five acts. As it…	1801	Possibly one of the following: OR Beaumont, Albani…
18 September 1829	Eustace	Eustace, John Chetwood	A tour through Italy. Exhibiting a view of its scenery, its antiquities, and its momum…	1813-1819	Hoare, Sir Richard Colt (3 volumes) [Vol. 2 has th…
22 September 1829	Bulwer, O'Neile, C. I	Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Baron	O'Neill; or, The rebel.	1827
22 September 1829	Provost, p. 120	Galt, John	The provost. By the author of ‘Annals of the parish,' etc.	1822	360 pages: matches pages WG reads.
24 September 1829	Falkland, p. 144	Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Baron	Falkland.	1827
30 September 1829	Borderers, p. 246	Cooper, James Fenimore	The borderers. A tale. By the author of ‘The spy.'	1829	Probably: (3 volumes) Conjecture based on WG's rea…
4 October 1829	Loves of Poets, çala	Jameson, Anna B.	The loves of the poets. By the author of the ‘Diary of an Ennuyée.	1829
5 October 1829	Giannone	Giannone, Pietro	Dell' historia civile del regno di Napoli. Vol. I.	1723	In English: Giannone, Pietro The civil history of …
8 October 1829	Sbarbuto, pp. 58	Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipp, Marquess of	The English in Italy	1825	‘Sbarbuto' in . (3 volumes)
8 October 1829	Maria Graham	Graham, Maria	Three months passed in the mountains east of Rome during the year 1819.	1820	Probably: Conjecture based on WG's other reading f…
9 October 1829	Elmhirst	Elmhirst, Philip J.	Occurrences during a six months' residence in the province of Calabria Ulteriori, in t…	1819	WG reads in the British Museum on this date. The B…
14 October 1829	Mattei				Unable to identify.WG reads in the British Museum …
18 October 1829	Hajji Baba in England, p. 60	Morier, James Justinian	The adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, in England	1828	.
19 October 1829	Naples		Voyage … en Italie	1829-02	Unable to identify with certainty. Possibly Recke'…
20 October 1829	Homeri Ilias, v. 100	Homer	Homeri Ilias, graece et latine. Annotationis in usum serenissimi principis Gulielmi Au…	1729	Probably: Clarke, Samuel (editor) … WG's sale cata…
22 October 1829	Hereford		Cloudesley	1398	Unable to identify specific title. WG's refers to …
24 October 1829	Ida of Athens, p. 170	Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady	Woman; or, Ida of Athens	1809	.
26 October 1829	Book of Boudoir, çala	Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady	The book of the boudoir	1829	.
5 November 1829	Bravo of Bohemia, p. 74	Author unknown	The bravo of Bohemia; or, The black forest. A romance. By a lady.	1806	(4 volumes)
6 November 1829	Brydone	Brydone, Patrick	A tour through Sicily and Malta. In a series of letters to William Beckford, Esq. of S…	1773	Possibly: . WG reads in the British Museum on this…
12 November 1829	Tanucci	Averani, Giusseppe (pseudonym)	Oratio de jurisprudentia, medicina, theologia per sua principia addiscendis pisis habi…	1725	Possibly: Tanucci, Bernardo WG's Cloudesley refers…
16 November 1829	Vattel	Vattel, Emer de	Le droit de gens ou principes de la loi naturelle. Appliques a la conduite et aux affa…	1758	. In English: Vattel, Emer de The law of nations o…
20 November 1829	House of Aspen	Scott, Sir Walter	The house of Aspen. A tragedy. By Sir Walter Scott.	1830
1 December 1829	Gough	Gough, Richard (published anonymously)	Anecdotes of British topography	1768	. Enlarged as: British topography. 1780 OR Gough, …
3 December 1829	Yes & No, p. 152	Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of	Yes and no. A tale of the day. By the author of ‘Matilda.'	1828	(2 volumes)
7 December 1829	Marriage in High Life, p. 58	Scott, Caroline Lucy	A marriage in high life. Edited by the authoress of ‘Flirtation.'	1828
11 December 1829	Collegians, p. 68	Griffin, Gerald	The collegians. In three volumes.	1829
14 December 1829	Holland Tide, p. 82	Griffin, Gerald	‘Holland-tide'; or, Irish popular tales…	1827	OR Griffin, Gerald ‘Holland-tide'; or, Munster pop…
24 December 1829	Matilda, p. 206	Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess	Matilda, a tale of the day.	1825
27 December 1829	Bijou, çala	Pickering, William	The bijou. An annual of literature and the arts	1828	. -
28 December 1829	3d Munster, p. 80	Griffin, Gerald	Tales of the Munster festivals… By the author of ‘Holland Tide,' etc.	1827	(3 volumes)
6 January 1830	Guise, act 1	Dryden, John	The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by Their Majesties servants. Written by Mr. Dryden…	1683	Lee, Nathaniel
7 January 1830	Boswel, p. 42	Boswell, James			Probably: Unable to identify specific title.
18 January 1830	Cid, acts 1, 2	Corneille, Pierre	Le Cid. Tragicomedie.	1637
20 January 1830	Bally Aylmer, çala	Griffin, Gerald	‘Holland-tide'; or, Irish popular tales.	1827	: 2nd edition (‘Holland-tide'; or Munster popular …
21 January 1830	Life of Byron, p. 130	Lake, John William	The life of Lord Byron	1826	Unable to identify with certainty. Items with titl…
29 January 1830	Colman, Records, p. 68	Colman, George, the younger	Random records	1830	. (2 volumes)
31 January 1830	Lost Heir, p. 114	Power, Tyrone	The lost heir, and The prediction	1830	. (3 volumes)
27 February 1830	Temora, B. I	Macpherson, James	Fingal, an ancient epic poem. In six books. Together with several other …	1762	‘Temora' in
3 March 1830	Museum; Leibnitz	Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm	A collection of papers, which passed between Mr. Leibnitz and Dr. Clarke in the years …	1717	Probably: Bulkeley, Sir Richard WG cites this text…
16 March 1830	Candide, &c, çala	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Candide	1794-09	WG first records reading on -22: Candide, ou l'Opt…
2 April 1830	Bulwer on Cloudesley	[Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron]	Cloudesley	1830	Review of WG's novel in New Monthly Magazine 28: 3…
2 April 1830	Bunyan, çala	Bunyan, John	The pilgrim's progress from this world, to that which is to come. Delivered under the …	1678	ORBunyan, JohnLife and death of Mr. Badman. 1680
4 April 1830	Atlas & Spectator, on Cloudesley	Author unknown	Cloudesley	1830	Review of WG's novel in Atlas, 218-29. AND Author …
7 April 1830	Voltaire, çala			1830-03	Unable to identify with certainty.Possibly the sam…
7 April 1830	Selkirk	Selkirk, Alexander	Providence display'd; or, A very surprizing account of one Mr. Alexander Selkirk, mast…	1712	WG reads this item in the British Museum on this d…
8 April 1830	De Foe	Defoe, Daniel	The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who l…	1796-11	Possibly the following item first recorded by WG o…
14 April 1830	Bourrienne, p. 76	Bourrienne, Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de	Mémoires de M. de Bourrienne, ministre d'état; sur Napoléon, le Directoire, le Consula…	1829	(10 volumes)
24 April 1830	Carwel, p. 132	Prior, Matthew	Hans Carvel	1701	. (a free adaptation of Jean La Fontaine's story)W…
30 April 1830	Rees	Rees, Abraham (editor)	Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopedia	1781-86	. (4 volumes) WG's Thoughts on Man (PPW 6: 250) ci…
1 May 1830	Blackwood, on Cloudesley	[Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft]	Cloudesley	1830	Review of WG's novel in Blackwood's Edinburgh Maga…
7 May 1830	Priestley, &c.	Priestley, Joseph	Disquisitions relating to matter and spirit. To which is added, the history of the phi…	1777	WG cites Priestley on matter in his Thoughts on Ma…
8 May 1830	Paul Clifford, Vol. I	Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron	Paul Clifford. By the author of ‘Pelham,' “Devereum,' &c.	1830
12 May 1830	Warbeck, p. 116	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	The fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, romance. By the author of ‘Frankenstein.'	1830	Published, according to WG's diary, on 1830-05-13.
13 May 1830	Newton	Newton, Sir Isaac	Opticks; or, A treatise on the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of ligh…	1704	WG's Thoughts on Man (PPW 6: 244) cites Newton's O…
17 May 1830	Scotsman, on Cloudesley	Author unknown	Cloudesley	1830	Review of WG's novel in Scotsman or Edinburgh Poli…
18 May 1830	Pinkerton	Pinkerton, John	Modern geography, a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies, with t…	1802	Possibly: Conjecture based on WG's current interes…
19 May 1830	Edinburgh Review, on Cloudesley	[Hazlitt, William]	Cloudesley	1830	Review of WG's novel in Edinburgh Review 51: 144-5…
19 May 1830	Hugh Murray	Murrary, Hugh	On the ancient geography of central and eastern Asia, with illustrations derived from …	1820	Probably: WG cites ‘Murray, Asia 1820' in Thoughts…
20 May 1830	Nepaul	Kirkpatrick, William	An account of the kingdom of Nepaul, being the substance of observations made during a…	1811	OR East India Company Papers regarding the adminis…
27 May 1830	Transit	Halley, Edmund	Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London	1716	‘Methodus singularis qua solis parallaxis sive dis…
15 June 1830	Brinkley	Brinkley, John	Elements of astronomy.	1813	WG cites Brinkley in Thoughts on Man (PPW 6: 270-1…
17 June 1830	Herschel	Herschel, William	Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London	1795	‘On the nature and construction of the sun and fix…
21 June 1830	Pope, Homer	Homer	The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope	1715-20	Pope, Alexander . (6 volumes) WG reads this item i…
23 June 1830	D'Israeli, çala	Disraeli, Isaac			Probably: Unable to identify specific title.
26 June 1830	Roscoe, p. 50	Pope, Alexander	The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations by himself and others. To wh…	1824	Roscoe, William (editor) (volumes 8, 9, 10 contain…
27 June 1830	Northcote, p. 184	Northcote, James	Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., LL.D. F.R.S.F.S.A, &c. late president of the Roy…	1813	(Supplement to this work is published in 1815.)OR …
6 July 1830	Pope, çala	Pope, Alexander	The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations by himself and others. To wh…	1824	‘Preface to Shakespeare,' ‘Moral Essays,' ‘Essay o…
10 July 1830	P W, Jas IV, p. 128	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	The fortunes of Perkin Warbeck. A romance. By the author of ‘Frankenstein.' In three v…	1830	Probably: . WG records Shelley's novel erlier on 1…
20 July 1820	Pope, Correspondence, çala	Pope, Alexander	Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and several of his friends	1737-41	. (Note: Vol. 2 is subtitled ‘containing the rest …
27 July 1830	Spurzheim	Spurzheim, Johann Caspar	The physiognomical system of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim; founded on anatomical and physio…	1815	. WG cites this work in Thoughts on Man (PPW 6: 23…
1 August 1830	Joseph Andrews, p. 177	Fielding, Henry	The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Wri…	1742
5 August 1830	Coleridge, Leaves, cala	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	Sibylline leaves. A collection of poems.	1817
6 August 1830	Letters, Posthumous			1830-06	Possibly WG reads Alexander Pope's posthumous lett…
8 August 1830	Norway, p. 50				Unable to identify.
10 August 1830	Pope	Pope, Alexander			Unable to identify specific title. WG reads Pope i…
23 August 1830	Sir J Davies, p. 56	Davies, Sir John	Nosce teipsum. This oracle expounded in two elegies.	1602	WG cites this work in Thoughts on Man (112)
31 September 1830	Gaudentio, p. 22	Berington, Simon	The memoirs of Sigr Gaudentio di Lucca, taken from his confession and examination befo…	1737
3 September 1830	Gervase Skinner, p. 60	Hook, Theodore Edward	Sayings and doings; or, Sketches from life. Third series.	1828	‘Gervase Skinner' in (3 volumes)
3 September 1830	Prideaux	Prideaux, Humphrey	The true nature of imposture fully display'd in the life of Mahomet. With a discourse …	1697	WG cites this work in Thoughts on Man (PPW 6: 95).…
22 September 1830	Scot, Demonology, p. 94	Scott, Sir Walter	Letters on demonology and witchcraft, addressed to J. G. Lockhart by Sir Walter Scott	1830	.
27 September 1830	Naudé	Naudé, Gabriel		1669	Apologie des grands hommes accusez de magie. WG ci…
29 September 1830	Observer				Unable to identify with certainty. WG reads this i…
30 September 1830	Demonism, çala			1830-09	Unable to identify. See WG's diary for -22.
30 September 1830	Wierus	Wierus, Johann	De praestigiis daemonum et incantationibus ac veneficiis, livri V	1563	Possibly: . WG reads Wierus in the British Museum …
1 October 1830	Faustus	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Faust: ein Trauerspiel	1787	. Several translations in the British Museum. OR M…
1 October 1830	Camerarius	Camerarius, Philip	Operae horarum subsicivarum, sive meditationes historicae avectiores quam antea editae	1615-20	(3 volumes) WG cites Philip Camerius's Horae subse…
2 October 1830	Passion & Principle, Vol. I	Hook, Theodore Edward	Sayings and doings; or, Sketches from life. Second series	1825	‘Passion and principle' in . (3 volumes)
6 October 1830	Grojan				Unable to identify.
7 October 1830	Schelhorn	Schelhorn, Johann Georg	Amoenitates literariae, quibus variae observationes, scripta item quadem anecdota & ra…	1725-51	(14 volumes in 7) See WG's diary for 1808-08-14.WG…
8 October 1830	T Roscoe	Roscoe, Thomas	The German novelists. Tales selected from ancient and modern authors in that language …	1826	Probably: (4 volumes) WG reads Roscoe in the Briti…
9 October 1830	Reynard ye Fox, p. 54	de Vos, Reinke	The German novelists	1826	‘The pleasant history of Reynard the Fox' in Rosco…
13 October 1830	Tale of Tub, çala	Swift, Jonathan	A tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind … to which is added …	1704
14 October 1830	Life of Chaucer, çala	Godwin, William	Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the early English poet, including the Memoirs of his near fr…	1803	Possibly: (2 volumes)
16 October 1830	Water Witch, p. 76	Cooper, James Fenimore	The water witch or skimmer of the seas. A tale. By the author of ‘The borderers,' ‘The…	1830
24 October 1830	Morgan, France, p. 105	Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady	France. By Lady Morgan.	1817
26 October 1830	Thucydides	Thucydides	History of the Peloponnesian War		. probably composed 431-390 B.C.WG cites Thucydide…
3 November 1830	P Herald, çala.	Robinson, C. C. J. and J.	Political herald and review; or, A survey of domestic and foreign politics and a criti…	1785-86
6 November 1830	Captain Carleton, p. 70				Unable to identify with certainty.WG refers to Sir…
14 November 1830	Van Halen, çala				Unable to identify.
1 December 1830	Gell, on Troy, çala	Gell, William	The topography of Troy and its vicinity, illustrated and explained by drawings and des…	1804
3 December 1830	Farquhar, çala	Farquhar, George	Love and business: in a collection of occasionary verse, and epistolary prose, not hit…	1817-04	Possibly the following item recorded on -13: 1702 …
10 December 1830	Epistle to Curio	Akenside, Mark (published anonymously)	An epistle to Curio	1744	.
14 December 1830	Love in Tub	Etherege, Sir George	The comical revenge; or, Love in a tub. Acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theat…	1669
2 January 1831	Moore, Byron, Vol. II, p. 42	Moore, Thomas	Letters and journals of Lord Byron, with notices of his life.	1830
7 January 1831	Hartshorn				Unable to identify. WG reads Hartshorn in the Brit…
11 January 1831	Berkeley, çala	Berkeley, George	A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge. Part 1. Wherein the chief cau…	1710	AND/OR Berkeley, George Alciphorn: or, The minute …
19 January 1831	Prior, Alma	Prior, Matthew	Poems on several occasions	1721	‘Alma; or, The progress of the mind' in . (2 volum…
28 January 1831	V Errors, çala	Browne, Sir Thomas	Pseudodoxia epidemica. Or, Enquiries into very many received tenents [sic], and common…	1646	(Variant title: Pseudodoxia epidemica. Or, Enquiri…
31 January 1831	Halley	Halley, Edmund		1830-05	See WG's diary for -27.WG reads Halley in the Brit…
5 February 1831	Siamese, çala	Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron	The siamese twins, a satirical tale of the times. With other poems.	1831	Probably:
7 February 1831	Nero, çala	Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus)	De vita Caesarum. (Lives of the Caesars)		Book 6119-22 A.D. or earlierAND Seneca, Lucius Ann…
13 February 1831	On Grenville, pp. 86	Godwin, William (published anonymously)	Considerations on Lord Grenville's and Mr. Pitt's bills, concerning treasonable and se…	1795	Possibly: WG alludes to this work in Thoughts on M…
18 February 1831	Uxor Hebraica	Selden, John	Uxor hebraica	1646	. WG reads in the British Museum on this date; how…
26 February 1831	Chenevix	Chenevix, Richard	Phrenology: article of the foreign quarterly review. By Rich. Chenevix; with notes fro…	1830	Possibly: Conjecture based on WG's previous readin…
28 February 1831	1/2 Crochet Castle	Peacock, Thomas Love	Crochet castle.	1831
20 March 1831	Stebbing, Dante	Stebbing, Henry	Lives of the Italian poets. With twenty medallion portraits. By Henry Stebbing.	1831	(3 volumes) WG's sale catalog lists:Stebbing's (Re…
30 March 1831	A Alexander, p. 60	Alexander, Alexander	The life of Alexander Alexander. Written by himself, and edited by John Howell.	1830	Howell, John (editor) WG's sale catalog lists:Alex…
31 March 1831	Destiny, p. 92				Unable to identify.
7 April 1831	Bayley, p. 116	Bayley, F. W. N.		1831-08	Possibly: See WG's diary for -22.
9 April 1831	King's Secret, p. 42	Power, Tyrone	The king's secret. By Tyrone Power, author of The lost heir.	1831
11 April 1831	sir K Digby	Digby, Sir Kenelm	Private memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles the F…	1827	Possibly: OR Digby, Sir Kenelm Observations upon ‘…
14 April 1831	Ashburnham	Ashburnham, John	A letter written by John Ashburnham, Esq. from Carisbrook castle in the Isle of Wight,…	1830	British Library lists several letters and narrativ…
15 April 1831	Crichton	Crichton, Andrew	Converts from infidelity; or, Lives of eminent individuals, who have renounced liberti…	1827	Possibly: (2 volumes) (Crichton is also the author…
18 April 1831	Life of Carey, cala	Carey, Robert, 1	Memoirs of the life of Robert Carey, Baron of Leppington, and Earl of Monmouth. Writte…	1759	st Earl of Monmouth
29 April 1831	Quarterly, on Sadler, No. 89	Lockhart, John Gibson	The Quarterly Review	1826-1853	(editor ) . 1809-1967
14 May 1831	Munster Festivals, p. 70	Griffin, Gerard	Tales of the Munster festivals	1827	.
25 May 1831	Vidocq, p. 60	Vidocq, Eugène François	Memoirs of Vidocq, principal agent of the French police until 1827, and now propriet…	1828-29	(4 volumes)
3 June 1831	Fouché, çala	Fouché, Joseph, duc d'Otrante	Mémoires de Joseph Fouché, duc d'Otrante, ministre de la police générale	1824	Possibly: . Translated: Fouché, Joseph, duc d'Otra…
4 June 1831	La Bruyère, p. 40	La Bruyère, Jean de	Les caractères de Théophraste, trad. du grec. Avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce …	1688	Probably: .
6 June 1831	Kitely	Keightley, Thomas	The fairy mythology. In two volumes.	1828	Possibly: OR Keightley, Thomas Outlines of history…
8 June 1831	Mentevole	Jephson, Robert	Julia; or The Italian Lover. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, in Drury …	1787	Possibly: OR Jephson, Robert Braganza, a tragedy. …
13 June 1831	Hardy Vaux, p. 125	Hardy Vaux, James	Memoirs of the first thirty-two years of the life of James Hardy Vaux, a swindler and …	1819
30 June 1831	Nanine	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Nanine; ou, Le préjugé vaincu. Comedie en trois actes en vers de dix syllabés.	1749
2 July 1831	Lammermoor, p. 280	Scott, Sir Walter	Tales of my landlord. Third series	1819	‘The bride of Lammermoor' in .
13 July 1831	Veiled Prophet				Unable to identify.
14 July 1831	Laurie Todd, p. 61	Galt, John	Laurie Todd; or, The settlers in the woods	1830	. (originally published New York; published in Lon…
15 July 1831	Island Bride, Canto I, II, III	Caunter, John Hobart	The island bride. In six cantos	1829	.
15 July 1831	Hungarian Tales, p. 95	Gore, Catherine F	Hungarian Tales. By the author of ‘The lettre de cachet.'	1829	.
25 July 1831	Evelyn & Pepys, on 1666	Evelyn, John	Memoirs illustrative of the life and writings of John Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S. … comprisin…	1818	Bray, William (editor) Upcott, William (editor) WG…
25 July 1831	Pepys, on 1666	Pepys, Samuel	Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and Ja…	1825	Braybrooke, Richard, Lord (editor) WG's sale catal…
1 August 1831	Homer, Odyssea, v. 286	Homer	Homeri Odyssea, Graece et Latine, item Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, et Epigrammata, Homer…	1740	Clarke, Samuel WG's sale catalog lists:Homeri Odys…
2 August 1831	Galt, Actors, çala	Galt, John	Lives of the players	1831	Probably: . (2 volumes)
4 August 1831	C Cibber, p. 74	Cibber, Colley	An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian, and late patentee of the Theat…	1797-01	Probably the following item recorded in WG's diary…
7 August 1831	L Edw. Fitzgerald, p. 230	Moore, Thomas	The life and death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. In two volumes. By Thomas Moore.	1831	Conjecture based on the fact that WG read a two-vo…
9 August 1831	T W Tone, p. 168	Tone, Theobald Wolfe	Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone. Written by himself and continued by his son. With his pol…	1826	Tone, William Theobald Wolfe (2 volumes) (Differen…
13 August 1831	La Bruyère, çala			1831-08	Possibly the same title as the one read on -16.
16 August 1831	La Bruyère, Theophrastus, çala	La Bruyère, Jean de	Les caractères de Théophraste, trad. du grec. Avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce …	1688	Translation: La Bruyère, Jean de The characters; o…
18 August 1831	Wordsworth, çala				Unable to identify specific title.
21 August 1831	Coleridge, çala				Unable to identify specific title.
22 August 1831	F W N Bayley, çala	Bayley, F. W. N.	Four years' residence in the West Indies. By F. W. N. Bayley.	1830	Conjecture based on this topic in WG's Deloraine.
25 August 1831	Emily Montague, Vol. I	Brooke, Frances Moore	The history of Emily Montague. In four volumes. By the author of Lady Julia Mandeville	1769	.
26 August 1831	Dolph Helliger; Del'Arbre				Unable to identify.
1 September 1831	Sir Tho Lawrence, çala	Williams, D. E.	The life and correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence. By D. E. Williams.	1831	Possibly: (2 volumes) Conjecture based on WG's cur…
4 September 1831	Life of Sir Tho. More, p. 57	More, Cresacre	The life and death of Sir Thomas More, Kt. Lord High Chancellor of England	1626	Probably: . (Erroneously ascribed to Thomas More, …
6 September 1831	Merimée, Charles IX, p. 78	Merimée, Prosper	Chronique du règne de Charles IX. Par Prosper Merimée.	1829
14 September 1831	La Vallette, p. 125	Lavallette, Antoine-Marie Chamant, comte de	Mémoires et souvenirs du comte La Vallette … pub. par sa famille et sur ses manuscrits…	1831	Translation: Lavallette, Antoine-Marie Chamant, co…
22 September 1831	Pantheon, çala	Godwin, William	The pantheon or ancient history of the gods of Greece and Rome. Intended to facilitate…	1806	Published under the name of Edward Baldwin.
25 September 1831	Joanna Baillie, Preface, p. 36	Baillie, Joanna	A series of plays. In which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the …	1798	‘Introductory discourse' in WG reads the ‘Introduc…
26 September 1831	Milman, Jews, p. 30	Milman, Henry Hart	The history of the Jews. From the earliest period to the present time	1800	.
2 October 1831	Confession, p. 209				Many authors. Unable to identify.
15 October 1831	Nowlans, p. 48	Banim, John	Tales by the O'Hara family. Second series, comprising The Nowlans and Peter of the cas…	1826	Banim, Michael
18 October 1831	Bravo, by Cooper, p. 241	Cooper, James Fenimore	The bravo. A tale.	1831
15 November 1831	Emile, Supplemt, p. 26	Rousseau, Jean Jacques	Traité sur l'education pour servir de supplément à l'Emile de J.J. Rousseau.	1770	OR Rousseau, Jean Jacques Supplément a l'Emile; ou…
20 November 1831	Geraldine of Dd, p. 77	Crumpe, Miss	Geraldine of Desmond; or, Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth. An historical romance.	1829
29 November 1831	Early Patriots, çala				Unable to identify.
3 December 1831	Robert of Paris, p. 153	Scott, Sir Walter	Tales of my landlord. Fourth series. Count Robert of Paris; Castle dangerous.	1831	‘Count Robert of Paris' in
9 December 1831	Castle Dangerous, p. 130	Scott, Sir Walter	Tales of my landlord. Fourth series. Count Robert of Paris; Castle dangerous.	1831	‘Castle dangerous' in
14 December 1831	Aylmers, p. 162	Bayly, Thomas Haynes	The Aylmers. A novel.	1827	OR see WG's diary for 1830-01-20.
15 December 1831	B M Carew, p. 104	Carew, Bampfylde Moore	The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, the noted Devonshire stroller and do…	1745
15 December 1831	B M C			1831-12	Possibly the same or later memoirs as the item rec…
21 December 1831	Mitford, Milton, çala	Mitford, John (editor)	The poetical works of John Milton. Edited by J. Mitford. With a life of Milton by the …	1832	Milton, John
24 December 1831	Playwright, p. 163	Reynolds, Frederick	A playwright's adventures. A novel. By Fredick Reynolds.	1831	Possibly: (also known as: Dramatic Annual)
31 December 1831	Eugene Aram, p. 220	Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron	Eugene Aram. A tale.	1832
8 January 1832	Burke, çala				Unable to identify specific title.
9 January 1832	Bravo of Ve, p. 125	Zchokke, Heinrich	The bravo of Venice. A romance. Translated from the German by M. G. Lewis.	1805	Lewis, Matthew Gregory (translator)
13 January 1832	Aram, çala, 1759	Great Britain Assizes (York)	The trial of Eugene Aram for the murder of Daniel Clarke, of Knavesborough: who was co…	1759	Scratcherd, Norrison (This is one of several versi…
13 January 1832	Usurer's Daughter, p. 115	Scargill, William Pitt	The usurer's daughter.	1832
24 January 1832	Aram			1832-01	See WG's reading for -13. Possibly he reads other …
10 February 1832	Voltaire, C Ed, 18 pp	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Histoire du Roi Charles XII pour servier à l'education de Mademoiselle Pxxxxx	1782	.
12 February 1832	Nugent, p. 46				Unable to identify.
12 February 1832	R Esher, p. 134	Hunt, Leigh	Sir Ralph Esher; or, Adventures of a gentleman of the court of Charles II.	1832	(3 volumes)
14 February 1832	Legend of Montrose, Vol. I	Scott, Sir Walter	Tales of my landlord. Third series. Collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham…	1819	(Contains: ‘The bride of Lammermoor' and ‘A legend…
17 February 1832	Red Gauntlet, çala	Scott, Sir Walter	Redgauntlet. A tale of the eighteenth century.	1824
23 February 1832	Sir J Carr	Carr, Sir John	The stranger in France; or, A tour from Devonshire to Paris. Illustrated by engravings…	1803	WG may have read one of Carr's many travel pieces,…
28 February 1832	Rochejaquelin	Rochejaquelin, Marie Louise Victorine, marquise de la	Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de la Rochejaquelein, écrits par elle-même, et rédigés …	1815	Barante, Prosper Brugière, Baron de (editor) .
29 February 1832	Louvet, çala	Couvray, Jean-Baptiste Louvet de	Mémoires de Louvet de Couvray, député à la Convention nationale, avec une notice sur s…	1823	Possibly: . (in Collection des mémoires relatifs à…
2 March 1832	Prisonniers de Caucase	de Maistre, Xavier	Oeuvres de M. le Comte Xavier de Maistre. 3, Les Prisonniers du Caucase. La Jeune Sibé…	1825
4 March 1832	Siberienne, p. 96	de Maistre, Xavier	Oeuvres de M. le Comte Xavier de Maistre. 3, Les Prisonniers du Caucase. La Jeune Sibé…	1825	.
11 March 1832	Buncle, çala	Amory, Thomas	The life of John Buncle, esq. Containing various observations and reflections, made in…	1756-66	( 2 volumes)
19 March 1832	Trelawney, p. 205	Trelawney, Edward John	The adventures of a younger son. In three volumes.	1831	Possibly:
24 March 1832	D'Abrantes, çala	d'Abrantès, Laure de St. Martin-Permon Junot, Duchesse	Mémoires ou souvenirs historiques sur Napoléon, la Révolution, le Consulat, l'Empire e…	1831-1837	Possibly: Conjecture based on subject, similar to …
24 March 1832	C Harold, çala			1812-09	See WG's diary for -04, 1816-12-08, and 1818-05-02…
12 April 1832	Rogers, Italy, çala	Rogers, Samuel	Italy, a poem	1822-28	. (2 parts)
14 April 1832	Voyage autr de ma Chambre	de Maistre, Xavier	Voyage autour de ma chambre. Par M. le Chev. X*****.	1796
16 April 1832	Wanderer			1793-10	Unable to identify with certainty.For earlier read…
16 April 1832	Lepreux	de Maistre, Xavier	Le lépreux de la cité d'Aoste. Par l'auteur du Voyage autour de ma chambre	1817	.
17 April 1832	1/2 Cid		Chronicle of the Cid	1830-01	Possibly Corneille's play recorded in WG's diary o…
2 May 1832	Hunchback				‘Little Hunchback'in Arabian Tales
5 May 1832	Alhambra, Vol. I.	Irving, Washington	The Alhambra. A series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards. By the author…	1832
14 May 1832	The Member	Galt, John	The member. An autobiography.	1832	Conjecture based on WG's reading of other items by…
15 May 1832	Newspaper				Unable to identify.
18 May 1832	Contrast, Vol. I.	Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess	The contrast. By the author of ‘Matilda,' ‘Yes and no,' &c, &c.	1832	Probably: (3 volumes) Conjecture based on WG's rea…
20 May 1832	Herodotus, c. 5	Herodotus	The histories	1679	. c. 450-430 B.C.WG may have been reading the foll…
21 May 1832	Gibbon, p. 42			1795-04	Unable to identify with certainty. See WG's earlie…
23 May 1832	W Thomas, çala	Thomas, William	The works of William Thomas, Clerk of the Privy Council in the year 1549. Consisting o…	1774	D'Aubant, Abraham (notes) WG's sale catalog lists:…
11 May 1832	Johnson, Lives of Browne & Drake	Johnson, Samuel	Christian morals, by Sir Thomas Browne, of Norwich, M.D. and author of Religio Medici.…		AND Johnson, Samuel The life of Mr. Richard Savage…
21 June 1832	Troilus, çala		Troilus and Cressida	1799-04	WG earlier records Dryden's on -30; Chaucer's Troi…
23 June 1832	Richardson, W, çala	Richardson, William	Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic characters of Richard the Third, King Lear, and Timon…	1784	WG's sale catalog lists: Richardson's Essay on [Sh…
23 June 1832	Hodgkins, p. 60				Unable to identify.Could this be Thomas Hodgkins, …
25 June 1832	Whateley	Whately, Richard	Essays on some peculiarities of the Christian religion.	1825	Possibly: OR Whately, Richard Elements of rhetoric…
14 July 1832	Hazlit, çala	Hazlitt, William	Characters of Shakespeare's plays. By William Hazlitt.	1817-05	Possibly the following first recorded in WG's diar…
21 July 1832	Heidenmauer, p. 174	Cooper, James Fenimore	The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines. A legend of the Rhine.	1832
27 July 1832	Bold Stroke	Centlivre, Susanna	A bold stroke for a wife. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's-…	1718	OR Cowley, Hannah A bold stroke for a husband. A c…
28 July 1832	1/2 Way to Keep Him	Murphy, Arthur	The way to keep him. A comedy in three acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal i…	1760
29 July 1832	All in Wrong	Murphy, Arthur	All in the wrong. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. By Mr. …	1761
29 July 1832	Byron, çala				Unable to identify specific title.
30 July 1832	Woman's Prize	Fletcher, John	The woman's prize; or, The tamer tam'd. A comedy.	1711	(Volume 6 in The works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, an…
1 August 1832	Farquhar, çala	Farquhar, George	The comedies of Mr. George Farquhar. viz. Love in a bottle, Constant couple; or a trip…	1708	Possibly a collection of Farquhar plays, the earli…
2 August 1832	Elyot, p. 47	Elyot, Sir Thomas	The boke name the gouernour deuised by Sir Thomas Elyot, knight.	1531	Possibly: Published again in 1833; edited from the…
8 August 1832	C Blount, çala	Blount, Charles		1802-04	Unable to identify specific title. WG has recorded…
12 August 1832	N Forster, p. 155				Unable to identify.
14 August 1832	Coleridge, çala	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	The statesman's manual; or, the Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight.…	1816	Possibly: Republished in 1832.
14 August 1832	T Burnet	Burnett, Thomas		1792-04	Unable to identify specific title.WG earlier recor…
15 August 1832	Susp. Husband, acts 1 & 2	Hoadly, Benjamin	The suspicious husband. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden…	1747
16 August 1832	Drummer, acts 1, 2	Addison, Joseph	The drummer; or, The haunted house. A comedy. With a preface by sir Richard Steele.	1711	Steele, Richard (preface) ca.
18 August 1832	Provoked Husband	Cibber, Colley	The provok'd husband; or, A journey to London. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre…	1728	Vanbrugh, Sir John
28 August 1832	Surrey, çala	Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of	Songes and sonettes, written by the right honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of S…	1814-09	Unable to identify with certainty.Possibly one of …
19 September 1832	Companions of Columbus, p. 96	Irving, Washington	Voyages and discoveries of the companions of Columbus. By Washington Irving.	1831
21 September 1832	Transfusion, p. 85	Godwin, William, junior	Transfusion	1835	. WG would be reading this in manuscript.
29 September 1832	Sarrans, p. 100	Sarrans, Bernard	Lafayette et la révolution de 1830, histoire des choses et des hommes de juillet, par …	1832	(2 volumes)
5 October 1832	W, Tales				Unable to identify.
9 October 1832	Fleetwood, p. 96	Godwin, William	Fleetwood; or, The new man of feeling.	1805	(3 volumes) (A one-volume edition was published in…
17 October 1832	Highland Smugglers, p. 100	Fraser, James Baillie	The Highland smugglers	1832	.
27 October 1832	Arlington, p. 68	Lister, Thomas Henry	Arlington, a novel.	1832
7 November 1832	Hardy, Memoir, p. 78	Hardy, Thomas	Memoir of Thomas Hardy, founder of, and secretary to, the London Corresponding Society…	1832	th of May, 1794.
8 November 1832	Mutiny of Bounty, p. 102	Bligh, William	A narrative of the mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty; and the subsequent voyag…	1807-01	Probably an edition of the following work recorded…
12 November 1832	Kuzzilbash, p. 112	Fraser, James Baillie	The Kuzzilbash. A tale of Khorasan. In three volumes.	1826
3 December 1832	Loves of Angels, p. 30	Moore, Thomas	The loves of the angels. A poem	1823	.
3 December 1832	Miserrimus, p. 70	Reynolds, Frederic Manuel	‘Miserrimus.' On a gravestone in Worcester Cathedral is this emphatic inscription, Mis…	1832	privately printed; 2nd edition 1833
5 December 1832	Buccaneer, p. 169	Hall, Mrs. S. C. [Anna Maria Hall]	The buccaneer. A tale. In three volumes.	1832	Possibly:
27 December 1832	Dale Owen	Dale Owen, Robert			Possibly: Unable to identify specific title from m…
28 December 1832	Aug. Newton				Unable to identify.
2 January 1833	Il Riposo, in New Monthly Magazine		The new monthly magazine and literary journal.	1821-1836	London: H. Colburn,
8 January 1833	Irish Character, p. 40	Hall, Anna Maria (Mrs. S. C. Hall)	Sketches of Irish character	1829	Probably: . (2 volumes)
15 January 1833	Prude, acte 1 & 2	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	La prude ou la gardeuse de cassette, comédie en cinq actes, en vers, de dix syllabes, …	1748	first published in Oeuvres de M. de Voltaire. Nouv…
15 January 1833	Pausanias	Pausanias	Description of Greece		. c. 174-180WG reads Pausanias in the British Muse…
15 January 1833	Bayle	Bayle, Pierre	Dictionnaire historique et critique.	1697	(4 volumes) In English: Bayle, Pierre An historica…
18 January 1833	L'Indiscret	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	L'Indiscret, comédie de M. de Voltaire	1725	. Première éditionWG's sale catalog lists:Voltaire…
18 January 1833	L'Enfant Prodigue, acte 1, 2	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	L'Enfant prodigue, comédie en vers dissillabes (sic) représentée sur le théâtre de la …	1738	. WG's sale catalog lists:Voltaire, Theatre, Henri…
20 January 1833	Femme qui a Raison	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	La femme qui a raison, comédie en trois actes, en vers, par M. de Voltaire, donnée sur…	1759	. Later published in Suite du théâtre de M. de Vol…
23 January 1833	L'Ecossaise	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Le Caffé (sic) ou l'Écossaise, comédie par M. de Voltaire	1760	. Later published in Suite du théâtre de M. de Vol…
24 January 1833	Droit de Seigneur	Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet	Le Droit du seigneur, comédie en vers par M. de Voltaire. Representée pour la premiere…	1763	l'Ecueil du Sage, par les comediens ordinaires du …
31 January 1833	Bp Watson	Watson, Richard	An apology for the Bible in a series of letters, addressed to Thomas Paine, author of …	1796-05	Possibly the following work first recorded in WG's…
4 February 1833	Gabalis	Villars, Nicolas de Montfaucon de	Le comte de Gabalis ou entretiens sur les sciences secretes	1670	. In English: Villars, Nicolas de Montfaucon de Th…
8 February 1833	Undine	La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Karl, Freiherr de	Undine and other tales. Translated from the German by F. E. Burnett.	1814	Burnett, F. E. (translator) WG refers to Undine by…
8 February 1833	Mari Sylphe	Marmontel, Jean-François	Contes moraux et pièces choisies. Par Marmontel.	1775	(3 volumes)
14 February 1833	Ghost Hunter, p. 105	Banim, Michael	The ghost-hunter and his family. By the O'Hara family	1833	.
19 February 1833	Museum; Fraguier	Fraguier, Claude François	Carmina. Diatriba prima de daemonio-secunda de ironia-tertia de moribus Socratis	1729	Probably: . WG reads Fraguier in the British Museu…
20 February 1833	Zoroaster	Gibbon, Edward	The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.	1776-88	WG's sale catalog lists:Gibbon's (Ed.) History of …
21 February 1833	Cudworth	Cudworth, Ralph	The true intellectual system of the universe: the first part; wherein, al the reason a…	1678	WG reads Cudworth in the British Museum.
22 February 1833	Museum; Aristophanes	Aristophanes			Unable to identify specific play read by WG.All Ar…
23 February 1833	Iamblichus	Iamblichus	On pythagoreanism		. date unknown; Iamblichus was born c. 245 A.D. an…
26 February 1833	Laertius, çala	Laertius, Diogenes	Lives and opinions of eminent philosophers		. early 3rd century A.D.WG cites Diogenes Laertius…
5 March 1833	Philostratus	Philostratus, Flavius	Vita Apollonii (The life of Apollonius of Tyana)		c. 217 A.D.WG reads Philostratus in the British Mu…
7 March 1833	Invisible Gentleman, p. 261	Dalton, James	The invisible gentleman, by the author of ‘Chartley the fatalist,' ‘The robber'… In th…	1833
13 March 1833	J Taylor, p. 95	Taylor, Jeremy	A discourse of the liberty of prophesying. Shewing the unreasonableness of prescribing…	1647	. WG's sale catalog lists;Taylor's (Jeremy) Discou…
14 March 1833	Stanley	Stanley, Thomas	The history of philosophy	1655	. (4 volumes) AND/OR Stanley, Thomas The history o…
15 March 1833	Bailly	Bailly, Jean Sylvain	Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, depuis son origine, jusqu'à l'establishment de l'éc…	1775	Probably: WG cites this work in Lives of the Necro…
16 March 1833	Dacier	Dacier, André	La vie de Pythagore, ses symbols, ses vers dorez, la vie de Hierocles… Par M. Dacier.	1706	(translated into English in 1707)WG reads Dacier i…
21 March 1833	Lucian	Lucian	Pseudomantes/Philopseudes/Muscae Encomium		The date of these works is unknown. Lucian was bor…
23 March 1833	Mansfield Park, p. 92	Austen, Jane	Mansfield Park. A novel. In three volumes. By the author of ‘Sense and sensibility,' a…	1814
29 March 1833	R Nares	Nares, Robert	An essay on the demon or divination of Socrates.	1782	Probably: WG reads Nares in the British Museum. He…
30 March 1833	Dunlop	Dunlop, John Colin	The history of fiction, being a critical account of the most celebrated prose works of…	1814	Possibly: OR Dunlop, John Colin History of Roman l…
4 April 1833	Banier	Banier, Antoine, abbé	La mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire	1738-40	Possibly: . (3 volumes) OR Banier, Antoine, abbé L…
6 April 1833	Plato	Plato	Charmides.	1802-10	Plato was born 429 B.C., died 347 B.C.; Charmides …
23 April 1833	Thoughts on Man, p. 72	Godwin, William	Thoughts on man, his nature, productions, and discoveries. Interspersed with some part…	1831	.
6 May 1833	Churchil, çala	Churchill, Charles	Poetical works in three volumes	1792-01	Unable to identify specific title. WG records read…
3 June 1833	Elia, Vol. II, p. 83	Lamb, Charles	The last essays of Elia, a sequel to essays published under that name.	1833	WG's sale catalog lists:Lamb's (Charles) Album Ver…
11 June 1833	Zosimus	Zosimus	Zosimi comitatis et exadvocate fisci historiae novae libri VI numquam hactenus editi. …	1531	. WG reads this item in the British Museum.
13 June 1833	Lardner	Lardner, Nathaniel	The history of the heretics of the two first centuries; … containing an account of the…	1780	Possibly:
26 June 1833	Salveste, p. 17				Unable to identify.
10 July 1833	Keightley, &c.	Keightley, Thomas	The fairy mythology. In two volumes.	1828	Possibly: Conjecture bases on similarity with topi…
15 July 1833	<D>Richardson			1818-02	Unable to identify with certainty. WG earlier reco…
23 July 1833	Inchbald, çala	Boaden, James (editor)	Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald. Including her familiar correspondence with the most distingu…	1833	Probably: (2 volumes) WG's sale catalog lists:Boad…
29 July 1833					Unable to identify. WG reads in the British Museum…
4 August 1833	Life of Surrey, p. 74	Sewell, George (editor)	Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who flourish'd in the reign of Henry the Eighth…	1717	Probably: WG's sale catalog lists:Howard (Henry, E…
12 August 1833	W Ward	Ward, William	Account of the writings, religion, and manners of the Hindoos, including translations …	1811	Possibly: . (4 volumes) OR Ward, William A view of…
15 August 1833	Sterline, J Cæsar, acts 1, 2/2	Stirling, William Alexander, Earl	The monarchick tragedies: Croesus, Darius, The Alexandran, Iulius Caesar. Newly enlarg…	1607
17 August 1833	Collier, J P, çala	Collier, John Payne	The poetical decameron; or, Ten conversations on English poets and poetry, particularl…	1820	Possibly: (2 volumes) OR Collier, John Payne The h…
27 August 1833	Sale	Sale, George (editor)	The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Muhammed. Translated into English immediatel…	1734	Possibly: OR Bayle, Pierre Sale, George (appended …
14 September 1833	Monumetensis	Ponticus, Ludovicus Virunius	Britanniae historiae libri VI. quibus G. Monumetensis libros sex priores in epitomen r…	1587	in Commelinus (H.) Rerum Britannicarum, id est Ang…
15 September 1833	Henry, çala	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly	Mysterium iniquitatis, seu historia papatus. Quibus gradibus ad id fastigii enisus sit…	1611	Probably: In English: Mornay, Philippe de, seigneu…
19 September 1833	W of Malmesbury	William of Malmesbury	Willelmi Malmesburiensis de gestis regum Anglorum. Ejusdem historiae novellae. Ejusdem…	1596	in Savile (Sir H.) Rerum Anglicarum, scriptores po…
20 September 1833	Bojard, st. 20	Boiardo, Matteo Maria, count	Orlando innamorato	1821-10	Probably the following work, first recorded in WG'…
24 September 1833	Selene, p. 58	Selenus, Gustavus (pseud., i.e. Augustus II, Duke of Brunswick-Luneberg)	Gustavi Seleni Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae libri IX. In quibus planissima stegan…	1624	Possibly: .
8 October 1833	Headsman, p. 50	Cooper, James Fenimore	The headsman; or, The abbaye des Vignerons. A tale.	1833	(2 volumes)
19 October 1833	Bulwer, England, p. 100	Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron	England and the English. By Edward Lytton Bulwer, … In two volumes	1833	.
26 October 1833	Gervasius	Marstallerus, Gervasius (compiler)	Artis divinatricis, quam astrologiam seu indiciariam vocant, encomia et patrocinia.	1549	Possibly: OR Twysden, Sir Roger Historiae Anglican…
27 October 1833	Gertrude of Wyoming, Pts I, II.	Campbell, Thomas	Gertrude of Wyoming, a Pennsylvanian tale. And other poems.	1809
30 October 1833	Roger Bacon	Bacon, Roger	Sanioris medicinae magistri Rogeri Baconis Angli, De arte chymiae scripta. Cui acceser…	1603	Unable to identify with certainty. The British Lib…
2 November 1833	Freind	Freind, John	The history of physick from the time of Galen to the beginning of the sixteenth centur…	1725-26	(2 parts) WG reads Friend in the British Museum.
3 November 1833	Repealers, p. 169	Gardiner, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington	Grace Cassidy; or, The repealers. A novel.	1833
6 November 1833	Trithemius	Trithemius, Johannes	Johannes Trithemii Spanheimensis … abbatis … Opera historica, quotquot hactenus reperi…	1601	AND/OR Trithemius, Johannes Steganographia: hoc es…
18 November 1833	Mic. Scot	Scott, Michael	Incipit tabula in librum[m] qui dicitur Mensa philosophica. Et in hoc finitur tractatu…	1480	?There are many works in the British Library ascri…
20 November 1833	Trevelyan, p. 226	Scott, Caroline L	Trevelyan. In three volumes	1834	. .
23 November 1833	Biographie	Societé de gens de lettres et de savants	Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, ou Histoire, par ordre alphabétique, de l…	1811
7 December 1833	Clemens Romanus	Clemens (called Clemens Romanus)	[Recognitiones] Diui Clementis recognitionum libri X. ad Iacobum fratrem Domini, Rufin…	1526	Sichardus, Joannes (editor) WG cites the Recogniti…
10 December 1833	Anastasius Sinaita	Anastasius (called Anastasius Sinaita)	Quaestiones et responsiones de varijs argumentis CLIV. Nunc primum Graece et Latine cu…	1617	WG cites the Quaestiones in Lives of the Necromanc…
10 December 1833	Galt, Life, p. 169	Galt, John	The literary life and miscellanies of John Galt	1834	Possibly: . (3 volumes) (Galt also wrote many biog…
15 December 1833	Jameson, p. <1>62				Unable to identify.
18 December 1833	Danæus	Daneau, Lambert	De veneficis, quos olim sortilegos nunc autem vulgo sortiarios vocant dialogus: in quo…	1574	In English: Daneau, Lambert A dialogue of witches,…
21 December 1833	De Lancre	Lancre, Pierre de	Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons, ou il est amplement traicte des …	1612	WG refers to Pierre de Lancre's A Representation (…
27 December 1833	Notre Dame, p. 36	Hugo, Victor	The hunchback of Notre-Dame. By Victor Hugo. Translated expressly for this edition, wi…	1833	In French: Hugo, Victor Notre-dame de Paris 1482. …
3 January 1834	Coquette, p. 71	Reynolds, Frederic Mansel	The coquette. By the author of ‘Miserrimus.'	1834	Probably: (3 volumes)
3 January 1834	Paulus Jovius	Jovius, Paulus	Elogia doctorum virorum ab avorum memoria publicata ingenii monumentis illustrum. Prae…	1557	WG cites Paulus Jovius's Elogia in Lives of the Ne…
9 January 1834	P Camerarius	Camerarius, Philip	Operae horarum subsicivarum, sive meditationes historicae auctiores quam ante editae… …	1602	WG cites Camerarius's Horae Subsecivae in Lives of…
11 January 1834	Durrius	Schelhorn, Johann Georg	Amoenitates literariae, quibus variae observationes, scripta item quaedam anecdota et …	1725-51	. (14 volumes in 7) WG cites ‘Durrius apud Schelho…
18 January 1834	Faustus			1834-01	In his Lives of the Necromancers (330-31), WG refe…
19 January 1834	Goethe, Faust, p. 51	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Faust: ein Trauerspiel	1830-10	Previously annotated for WG's diary -01: . 1787 Se…
3 February 1834	Hospinian	Hospinian, Rudolf	Historia sacramentaria: hoc est, libri quinque de coenae dominicae prima institutione:…	1598	(2 parts) , 1602 WG cites Hospinian's Historia Sac…
5 February 1834	Luther	Luther, Martin	De abroganda missa priuata	1522	Probably: . (British Library)WG refers to Luther's…
17 February 1834	Dee	Glastoniensis, Johannes	Johannis, confratris et monachi Glastoniensis, Chronica sive historia de rebus Glaston…		Hearne, Thomas (editor) (2 volumes) Discussing the…
19 February 1834	Ashmole	Ashmole, Elias	The lives of the eminent antiquaries Elias Ashmole, esquire, and Mr. William Lilly, wr…	1774	Probably: Lilly, William Burman, Charles Davies, T…
20 February 1834	Dr Tho. Smith				Unable to identify. WG reads Smith in the British …
25 February 1834	Helen, p. 90	Edgeworth, Maria	Helen. A tale.	1834	Possibly: (3 volumes)
8 March 1834	Hutchinson	Hutchinson, Francis	An historical essay concerning witchcraft, with observations upon matters of fact tend…	1718	WG cites Hutchinson on witchcraft in Lives of the …
11 March 1834	Pitcairn	Pitcairn, Robert	Ancient criminal trials in Scotland, compiled from the original records and MSS. with …	1833	(3 volumes in 7) (The earliest edition is dated 18…
14 March 1834	Fuller	Fuller, Thomas	The church history of Britain; from the birth of Jesus Christ, untill the year 1648.	1655	( 6 parts) AND Fuller, Thomas Fuller, J. (editor) …
15 March 1834	Sir M Hale	Hale, Matthew, Sir	A tryal of witches (Rose Cullender and Amy Duny) at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmon…	1682/16	England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of th…
16 March 1834	Godolphin, p. 165	Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron	Godolphin, a novel	1833	. (3 volumes)
17 March 1834	Hacket	Hacket, John, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry	Scrinia reserata. A memorial offer'd to the great deservings of John Williams, who som…	1693	Possibly: (2 parts) WG reads Hacket in the British…
18 March 1834	Laud		Cyprianus anglicus; or, The history of the life and death, of the most reverend and re…	1668	Heylyn, Peter WG cites ‘Helwyn. Life of Laud' in L…
26 March 1834	Valperga, p. 84	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	Valperga; or, the Life and adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. In three volumes…	1823
27 March 1834	R Baxter	Baxter, Richard	The certainty of the worlds of spirits, fully evinced by unquestionable histories of a…	1691	WG cites ‘Richard Baxter, Certainty of World of Sp…
7 April 1834	W Lilly	Lilly, William	Mr. William Lilly's history of his life and times, from the year 1602 to 1684. Written…	1715	WG cites ‘William Lilly: Narrative of his own life…
10 April 1834	Herbelot	Herbelot, Barthelémy de Molainville	Bibliothèque orientale, ou Dictionnaire universel, contenant généralement tout ce qui …	1697	Cousin, Louis Galland, antoine Hajii, Khalfah . WG…
26 April 1834	Horneck	Sinclair, George	Satan's invisible world discovered; or, A choice of modern relations, proving evidentl…	1685	AND Glanvill, Joseph More, Henry Horneck, Anthony …
28 April 1834	Remigius	Remigius, Monachus S. Germani	[In undecim postiores prophetas, enarratio.]	1618	WG reads Remigius in the British Museum.
4 May 1834	Read Necromancers	Godwin, William	Lives of the necromancers: or, An account of the most eminent persons in successive ag…	1834
8 May 1834	Mather	Mather, Cotton	The wonders of the invisible world. Being an account of the tryals of several witches,…	1693	AND Calef, Robert More wonders of the invisible wo…
10 May 1834	Neal	Neal, Daniel	The history of New-England. Containing an impartial account of the civil and ecclesias…	1720	WG cites this work in Lives of the Necromancers (4…
14 May 1834	Dalton				Unable to identify. WG reads Dalton in the British…
15 May 1834	Lancashire Witches, 1612	Potts, Thomas	The wonderfull discouerie of the witches in the countie of Lancaster. With the arraign…	1613	Bromley, Sir Edward , 1612 AND Whitaker, Thomas Du…
2 June 1834	B J, Discoveries, p. 30	Jonson, Ben	Timber; or, Discoveries, made upon men and matter; as they have flow'd out of his dail…	1641	. WG's sale catalog lists:Jonson's (Ben) Works, Pl…
5 June 1834	Critical Review, 1793	Simpkin, W. and Marshall, R. (publishers)	The critical review; or, Annals of literature.	1756-1817	(Series 1 was edited by T. G. Smollett 1756-1790)W…
7 June 1834	Macpherson, p. 455 to 510	Macpherson, James	Originall papers, containing the secret history of Great Britain from the Restoration,…	1827-09	Probably the following work recorded in WG's diary…
12 June 1834	British Critic, 1793	Rivington, F. and C. (publishers)	The British critic	1793	. WG reads this journal in the British Museum.
9 July 1834	Life of Siddons, Vol. I	Campbell, Thomas	Life of Mrs. Siddons	1834	. WG's sale catalog lists:Life of Mrs. Siddons, po…
25 July 1834	Lodore, p. 125	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	Lodore. By the author of ‘Frankenstein.'	1835
6 August 1834	Gifford, cala			1834-08	See WG's diary for -08 Massinger.
8 August 1834	Massinger, çala	Massinger, Philip	The plays of Philip Massinger, in four volumes. With notes critical and explanatory, b…	1804	Gifford, William (editor of the Quarterly Review) …
10 August 1834	C Lamb, çala	Lamb, Charles	The works of Charles Lamb.	1818	(2 volumes) OR Lamb, Charles Album verses, with a …
21 August 1834	Coleridge, Poems	Coleridge, Hartley	Poems.	1833	Probably:
23 August 1834	Xtn Morals, çala	Browne, Thomas, Sir	Christian morals, by Sr Thomas Browne, of Norwich, M.D. and author of Religio Medici. …	1716	WG's sale catalog lists:Browne's (Sir Tho.) … Chri…
26 August 1834	Quarterly	Murray, John (publisher)	The quarterly review.	1809-1867	(John Taylor Coleridge is a contributor at this ti…
1 September 1834	Scott, Life of Swift, p. 90	Scott, Sir Walter	Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin	1826	. ParisWG's sale catalog lists:Scott's (Sir Walter…
12 September 1834	Pope & Swift, Letters	Pope, Alexander	Mr. Pope's literary correspondence.	1735	Possibly: ORPreviously recorded 1820-07-20: Pope, …
17 September 1834	Alexander the Great	Plutarch (Plutarchus)	Parallel lives of Greeks and Romans.	1612	Possibly: Date unknown; Plutarch died c. 120 A.D.W…
18 September 1834	Nero	Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus)	De vita Caesarum. (Lives of the Caesars)		Possibly: 119-22 A.D. or earlier
20 September 1834	Life of Pope, p. 70	Pope, Alexander	The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. complete. With his last corrections, additions, and …	1824	Possibly: Ruffhead, Owen Warburton, William 1769 O…
28 September 1834	Essay on Man, Pope	Pope, Alexander	The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. complete. With his last corrections, additions, and …	1769	‘Essay on Man'in one of the following: Pope, Alexa…
30 September 1834	Pompeii, Vol. I	Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron	The last days of Pompeii.	1834
4 October 1834	Old Debts, act 1, 2	Massinger, Philip	A new way to pay old debts. A comoedie. As it hath beene often acted at the Phoenix in…	1633
10 October 1834	Never Vext, acts 1, 2	Rowley, William	A new wonder, a woman never vext. A pleasant conceited comedy, sundry times acted, nev…	1632
12 October 1834	Appius, acts 1, 2, 3	Webster, John	Appius and Virginia. A tragedy.	1654
14 October 1834	Fate of Capua, acts 1 & 2	Southerne, Thomas	The fate of Capua. A tragedy. As it is acted at the theatre in Lincolns Inn Fields. By…	1700
15 October 1834	Scott	Scott, Sir Walter	Letters on demonology and witchcraft, addressed to J. G. Lockhart by Sir Walter Scott	1830	. OR Scott, Reginald The discovery of Witchcraft. …
15 October 1834	Middleton	Middleton, Conyers	A free inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are supposed to have subsisted in the…	1749	Possibly: ?WG reads in the British Museum on this …
17 October 1834	A C, Burns, p. 92	Burns, Robert	The complete works of Robert Burns, containing his poems, songs, and correspondence. I…	1786	Cunningham, Allan (editor and biographer) .
20 October 1834	Poems, çala	Burns, Robert		1834-10	Possibly: See WG's diary for -17.
29 October 1834	H Bulwer, p. 43	Bulwer, Henry Lytton	An autumn in Greece. Comprising sketches of the character, customs, and scenery of the…	1826	OR Bulwer, Henry Lytton France, social, literary, …
15 November 1834	M Chronicle	Lambert, J. (publisher)	The morning chronicle.	1789-1865
16 November 1834	Gray, çala	Gray, Thomas	Poems, with notes by Gilbert Wakefield.	1786	Possibly: WG's sale catalog lists:Gray's (T.) Poem…
16 December 1834	Old Men's Tales, p. 38	Marsh-Caldwell, Anne	Two old men's tales. The deformed, and The admiral's daughter. In two volumes.	1834
22 December 1834	Tertullian	Tertullianus, Quintus Septimus Florens	Apologeticus	1485	Possibly: . 197 A.D.There are several editions of …
23 December 1834	Princess, p. 100	Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady	The princess; or, The beguine. By Lady Morgan.	1835
4 January 1835	Artevelde, p. 33	Taylor, Henry, Sir	Philip van Artevelde. A dramatic romance. In two parts. By Henry Taylor.	1834	(2 volumes)
11 January 1835	J Faithful, p. 155				Unable to identify.
12 January 1835	Purgatory			1835-01	Possibly the same as WG's reading on -17.WG reads …
13 January 1835	Sir Thos More	More, Sir Thomas	The works of Sir Thomas More, knyght, sometyme Lorde Chauncellour of England, wrytten …	1557	Possibly: Rastell, Thomas (editor) Reprinted in 18…
16 January 1835	Ayesha, p. 86	Morier, James Justinian	Ayesha, the maid of Kars. In three volumes.	1834	In French: Morier, James Justinian Fauconpret, A.-…
17 January 1835	Wake, on Purgatory	Wake, William	Two discourses: of purgatory, and of prayers for the dead	1687	. WG reads Wake in the British Museum.
21 February 1835	Heir Presumptive, p. 78	Stepney, Catherine Pollock Manners, Lady	The heir presumptive	1835	.
4 March 1835	D'Arblay, p. 140	Burney, Fanny	Memoirs of Doctor Burney. Arranged from his own manuscripts, from family papers, and f…	1832	Possibly: OR a work previously read. WG records th…
21 March 1835	Marshal Ney, p. 28	Bulos, Antoine	Memoirs of Marshal Ney. Published by his family. Illustrated with a portrait, maps and…	1833	In French: Bulos, Antoine Mémoires du Maréchal Ney…
2 April 1835	Prairies, p. 110	Irving, Washington	A tour of the prairies over the hunting grounds of the Osage and Pawnee Indians, in th…	1835	.
19 May 1835	Arrian	Arrianus, Lucius Flavius	Anabasis Alexandri (The campaigns of Alexander)	1729	Date unknown: Arrianus was born c. 86 A.D., died c…
22 May 1835	Ion,	Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Sir	Ion, a tragedy, in five acts. To which are added a few sonnets.	1835
1 June 1835	Ellis on do, çala	Ellis, George A.	Historical inquiries respecting the character of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Lord …	1827
25 June 1835	Brydges, Milton, p. 71	Brydges, Egerton, Sir	The life of John Milton, by Egerton Brydges	1835	.
26 June 1835	Life of Kean, Vol. I	Cornwall, Barry	The life of Edmund Kean	1835	. (2 volumes)
9 July 1835	F Kemble, p. 250	Butler, Frances Anne (Kemble, Fanny)	Journal of a residence in America. By Frances Anne Butler (Miss Fanny Kemble). In one …	1835	Probably:
13 July 1835	Coleridge, Table Talk, çala	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In two volumes.	1835	Coleridge, Henry Nelson (editor)
27 July 1835	Childe Harold, çala	Byron, George Gordon, Baron	Childe Harold's pilgrimage.	1812	WG records read Canto I ( ) on 1812-09-14, Canto I…
6 August 1835	H Tooke, çala	Tooke, John Horne	Epea pteroenta. Or, the diversions of Purley. Part I. By John Horne Tooke.	1797-09	Possibly the following item previously recorded on…
8 August 1835	Burnet, Life			1835-06	See WG's diary for -02.
15 August 1835	Campbel, çala	Campbell, George	A dissertation on miracles. Containing an examination of the principles advanced by Da…	1834-07	Possibly Campbell's Life of Siddons (see WG diary …
15 August 1835	Beckford, Alcobaça, p. 140	Beckford, William	Recollections of an excursion to the monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha	1835	.
17 August 1835	Prior, çala	Prior, Matthew	The poetical works of Matthew Prior	1835	Unable to identify with certainty.WG may be readin…
21 August 1835	Queen of Bohemia, p. 88	Erskine, Frances, Lady	Memoirs relating to the Queen of Bohemia. By one of her ladies.	1770	? 1772?OR Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy Memoirs of Elis…
23 August 1835	Royal & Noble Authors, cala	Walpole, Horace	A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, and lists of their works.	1758	Enlarged and continued to the present time, by Tho…
24 August 1835	Life of Mackintosh, p. 116	Mackintosh, Robert James	Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh. Edited [from his lett…	1835	Mackintosh, James, Sir . (2 volumes)
3 September 1835	Paley, çala	Paley, William	The works of of William Paley, D.D., Archdeacon of Carlisle, with a life of the author…	1834	Unable to identify with certainty.Possibly WG read…
5 September 1835	Hazlit, çala	Hazlitt, William	Literary remains of the late William Hazlitt. With a notice of his life, by his son, a…	1836	Unable to identify with certainty.Possibly WG read…
7 September 1835	Mirabeau, çala	Mirabeau, Honore-Gabriel Riquetti, comte de	Oeuvres de Mirabeau, précedées d'une notice sur sa vie et ses ouvrages, par M. Merilho…	1825-27	Unable to identify with certainty.Possibly WG read…
20 September 1835	Inchbald, çala			1833-07	Possibly Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald (see WG…
24 October 1835	New Monthly		The monthly review, or literary journal. New and improved series.	1826-1840
29 October 1835	Euphues & his Ed, p. 20	Lyly, John	Euphues and his England. containing his voyages and aduentures, mixed with sundry pret…	1601	WG's sale catalog lists:Lily's (Jo.) Euphues; the …
7 November 1835	During my residence in Palace Yard, I read through Shakespear with notes.				Unable to identify specific edition read.WG record…
2 December 1835	Life of Tasso	Montgomery, James	Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal.	1835-37	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (3 volumes) In view o…
3 December 1835	Life of Foscolo			1835-12	See WG's diary for -02.
4 December 1835	Life of Monti			1835-12	See WG's diary for -02.
5 December 1835	Caunter, clergyman, p. 98	Caunter, John Hobart	Posthumous records of a London clergyman	1835	Probably: .
8 December 1835	Life of Alfieri, p. 31			1835-12	See WG's diary for -02.
9 December 1835	Parricide, p. 64	Reynolds, Frederic Mansel	The parricide. A domestic romance	1836	Probably: .
13 December 1835	Life of Galileo			1835-12	See WG's diary for -02.
14 December 1835	Life of Guarini			1835-12	See WG's diary for -02.
15 December 1835	Life of Chiabrera			1835-12	See WG's diary for -02.
16 December 1835	Life of Goldoni			1835-12	See WG's diary for -02.
17 December 1835	Rochester, Funeral Sermon, &c	Parsons, Robert	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Rt. Honorable John Earl of Rochester, who died…	1680	. . WG's sale catalog lists:Rochester:--Poems, by …
17 December 1835	Laud	Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury		1815-05	Unable to identify specific work. WG earlier recor…
18 December 1835	Rochester, çala			1810-01	Unable to identify specific title.WG earlier recor…
18 December 1835	Rienzi, p. 80	Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron	Rienzi. The last of the tribunes.	1835
17 January 1836	Hacket, çala			1834-03	Unable to identify with certainty.See WG's diary f…
20 January 1836	Power, America, p. 48	Power, W. G. T.	Impressions of America.	1821
29 January 1836	Newspaper				Unable to identify.
16 February 1836	Oronooko	Behn, Aphra	Oroonoko; or, The royal slave. A true history. By Mrs. A. Behn.	1688
17 February 1836	Betrothed, p. 127	Scott, Sir Walter	Tales of the crusaders. (The betrothed. The talisman.) In four volumes.	1825
20 February 1836	Lilly, Carpenter				Unable to identify.
20 February 1836	Finish Cousin, on Education in Prussia	Cousin, Victor	Report on the state of public instruction in Prussia. Addressed to the Count de Montal…	1834
27 February 1836	Robertson, Charles V, p. 31	Robertson, William	The history of the reign of Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Germany, and of all the king…	1769
29 February 1836	Ravenscroft, p. 63	St. John, James Augustus	Margaret Ravenscroft; or, Second love	1835	. WG's sale catalog lists:Margaret Ravenscroft, or…
1 March 1836	V Hugo		The London Westminster Review.	1836-1840	Probably:
10 March 1836	Caunter, India, çala	Caunter, John Hobart	India [Historical tales].	1836	Possibly: (3 volumes)
12 March 1836	Pencillings, çala	Tenniel, John, Sir	Pencillings in the pit.	1835	OR Willis, Nathaniel Parker Pencillings by the way…
13 March 1836	Motto, çala				Unable to identify.
18 March 1836	Rookwood, p. 130	Ainsworth, William Harrison	Rookwood. A romance	1834	.