John Speed (1552-1629) was an English cartographer and historian, one of the most famous English mapmakers of the early modern period. Speed is best known for two atlases, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, first published in 1611/1612, and A Prospect of the
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Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer, with Original Letters and Meditations and Prayers, Selected from her Journal, Sarah Trimmer (1816)
Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810) was a children’s writer, critic and educational reformer. She was the daughter of artist and architect Joshua Kirby, who in 1759 was appointed Clerk of Works to the Royal Household at Kew Palace. In 1762, Sarah married James Trimmer, a wealthy brick
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Thomas Percy (1765)
Thomas Percy (1729-1811) Bishop of Dromore, County Down was famous in his own time and best known today for his popular three-volume work Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), a collection of ballads and romances dating from the late medieval period to the seventeenth century.
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“Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa”, Edward Daniel Clarke, 1811
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) was an antiquarian, traveller and mineralogist, who later became the first Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Cambridge. In 1810, Clarke published the first part of his six-volume work Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa (1810–23), chronicling
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An Account of the Culture and Use of the Mangel Wurzel, or Root of Scarcity, 1787
Translated from the French by John Coakley Lettsom (1787) John Coakley Lettsom (1744 – 1815) was a prominent eighteenth century Quaker, physician and philanthropist. He founded the Medical Society of London in 1773, the oldest medical society in England, and was one of the founder
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Plantae Favershamiensis
Edward Jacob (1710–1788) was an antiquarian and naturalist. In 1735 he moved to Faversham, Kent where he practised as a surgeon, also becoming mayor of the town on four occasions. Soon after his arrival Jacob took a keen interest in the history, geography and geology
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A Hand-book of Proverbs
A Hand-book of Proverbs: comprising an entire republication of Ray’s Collection of English Proverbs with large additions; compiled by Henry G. Bohn (1855) A proverb is a short expression of popular wisdom that offers practical advice or teaches a lesson. Proverbs, such as those found
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The Naval Chronicle Vols. 1-40
The Naval Chronicle was a British periodical published in forty volumes between January 1799 and December 1818. It was the most influential maritime journal of its day, published during a turbulent period when the Royal Navy was involved in the French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1801), the
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Itinerarium Curiosum
or An account of the antiquitys and remarkable curiositys in nature or art observed through travels in Great Brittan by William Stukeley. London, 1724 Dr William Stukeley (1687-1765) was the most renowned English antiquary of the eighteenth century. In the era of the Enlightenment and
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Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy
Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs old and new, Vol. 1. By Thomas D’Urfey (1719) Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, consisting of six volumes published between 1719 and 1720, has
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