Category: History - British
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2. Chapter 2We may well ask, What are some of the uses that can be made of Congreve's book list? For one thing, it may be studied as a carefully selected private library of the period. What...
7. Chapter 7André Dacier (1651-1722). The life of Pythagoras, with his symbols and golden verses. By M. Dacier. . . . Now done into English . . . by N. Rowe, Esq. London, for J. Tonson, 170...
8. Chapter 8Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.-A.D. 17). Ovid's metamorphoses in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. [J. Dryden, J. Addison, W. Congreve, etc.]. London, for Jaco...
5. Chapter 5The history of the valorous and witty-knight-errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly corrected and amended. London, by Richard Hodkinsonne,...
9. Chapter 9Congreve's copy, with the signature "Wm. Congreve" on the title page, was item No. 350 in Catalogue No. 335 of Myers & Co., 1941; also item No. 423 in the Meyerstein Sale, Sothe...
3. Chapter 3Trajano Boccalini (1556-1613). I ragguagli di Parnasso: or, Advertisements from Parnassus; in two centuries . . . put into English by . . . Henry Earl of Monmouth. London, for H...
6. Chapter 6The first part appeared in 1688 and again in 1703. The second part appeared in 1693. Since Congreve had two parts, he probably had the 1703 edition of the first part and the fir...
10. Chapter 10La source des malheurs d'Angleterre, et de tous les maux, dont ce roiaume a été affligé depuis le regne de Jacques I. & qui ont causé la perte de Charles I. & la desertion de Ja...
11. Chapter 11Edward Young (1683-1765). A vindication of providence; or, A true estimate of human life. . . . Preach'd in St. George's Church near Hanover-Square, soon after the late king's d...
4. Chapter 4François Pétis de la Croix (1653-1713). Les mille & un jour. Contes persans, traduits en françois. A Paris, en la boutique de Claude Barbin, chez la veuve Ricoeur, 1710-12. 5 to...