| 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 printed … |
| 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. | c. 89-92 | 1503 1111OR Erasmus, Desiderius Enchiridion militi… |
| 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 | 'Of the original contract' in Three essays, moral and political: never before published.
… | 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.) H… |
| 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-HenriBernardin 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, vs100 | 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 | . |
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