ID 5
Name John Rivington and Sons [or J. F. and C. Rivington]
Gender Male
Street Address 62 St Paul's Churchyard
City London
Start Date 1775
End Date 1792
Sources British Book Trade Index 58424
Related Firms Charles Rivington II
John Rivington II
Francis Rivington I
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Titles

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Firm Role Title Contributors Date
Publisher Devout exercises of the heart in meditation and soliloquy, prayer and praise. By the late Pious and Ingenious Mrs Rowe. Reviewed and published at her request, by I. Watts, D. D. The eighth edition. Rowe , Elizabeth Singer (Author)
Watts , Isaac (Editor)
1770
Publisher The New English Theatre in Twelve Volumes, containing the most valuable plays which have been acted on the London stage. Lillo , George (Author)
Philips , Ambrose (Author)
Cibber , Colley (Author)
and 30 more.
1776
Bookseller The death of Abel. In five books. Attempted from the German of Mr. Gessner. The eleventh edition. Gessner , Salomon (Author)
Collyer , Mary (Translator)
1777
Publisher Devout exercises of the heart in meditation and soliloquy, prayer and praise. By the late pious and ingenious Mrs Rowe. Reviewed and published at her request, by I. Watts, D.D. The ninth edition. Rowe , Elizabeth Singer (Author)
Watts , Isaac (Editor)
1777
Publisher The house-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook: Containing above twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. with plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c. also a copious and useful bill of fare, of all manner of provisions in season, for every month in the year. Together with directions for making all sorts of wine, mead, cyder, shrub, distilling strong-waters, &c. for brewing ale and small-beer in a cleanly, frugal manner: and for managing and breeding poultry to advantage. Likewise several useful family receipts for taking out stains, preserving furniture, cleaning plate, taking iron-moulds out of linen, &c. as also easy tables, of sums ready cast up, from one farthing to one pound, for the use of those not conversant in arithmetic: and tables shewing the interest of money from 3, 3 1/2, 4 and 5 per cent. from one day to a year. The whole is so contrived as to contain more than any book of double the price; and the excellency of the receipts renders it the most useful book of the kind. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison. The ninth edition, revised and corrected. To which are now added several modern receipts, by very good judges. Also, every one their own pysician: a collection of the most approved receipts for the cure of the disorders incident to human bodies. Harrison , Sarah (Author)
1777
Publisher Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, prime minister to Henry the Great. Containing the History of the Life and Reign of that Monarch, and his own Administration under Him. Translated from the French, by the Author of the Female Quixote. To which is added, the Tryal of Ravaillac for the Murder of Henry the Great. In Five Volumes. A new edition. L'Écluse des Loges , Pierre Mathurin de (Author)
1778
Publisher The art of cookery, made plain and easy; Which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet published. Containing, I. How to Roast and Boil to Perfection every Thing necessary to be sent up to Table. II. Of Made-Dishes. III. How expensive a French Cook's Sauce is. IV. To make a Number of pretty little Dishes for a Supper or Side-Dish, and little Corner-Dishes for a great Table. V. To dress Fish. VI. Of Soups and Broths. Vii. Of Puddings. Viii. Of Pies. IX. For a Lent Dinner; a Number of good Dishes which may be made use of at any other Time. X. Directions to prepare proper Food for the Sick. XI. For Captains of Ships; how to make all useful Dishes for a Voyage; and setting out a Table on board. XII. Of Hog's-Puddings, Sausages, &c. XIII. To pot and make Hams &c. XIV. Of Pickling. XV. Of making Cakes, &c. XVI. Of Cheesecakes, Creams, Jellies, Whip-Syllabubs, &c. XVII. Of made Wines, Brewing, French Bread, Mussins, &c. XVIII. Jarring Cherries and Preserves, &c. XIX. To make Anchovies, Vermicelli, Catchup, Vinegar, and to keep Artichokes, French Beans, &c. XX. Of Distilling. XXI. How to market; the Season of the Year for Butchers Meat, Poultry, Fish, Herbs, Roots, and Fruit. XXII. A certain Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog, by Dr. Mead. XXII. A Receipt to keep clear from Bugs. To which are added, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts; and also fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery. With a Copious Index. By a lady. A New Edition. With all the modern improvements. And also, the order of a bill of fare, for each month, in the manner the dishes are to be placed upon the Table, in the present taste. Glasse , Hannah (Author)
1778
Bookseller A letter from Mrs. Straightforward to her son Timmy. To which is prefixed, Mrs. Straightforward's letter to the ladies and gentlemen of Cambridge. Unknown , (Author)
1780
Bookseller The death of Abel. In five books. Attempted from the German of Mr. Gessner. The twelfth edition embellished with an elegant engraving to each book. Gessner , Salomon (Author)
Collyer , Mary (Translator)
1780
Publisher The works of the late Mrs. Catharine Talbot. A new edition. Talbot , Catherine (Author)
1780
Bookseller Miscellanies in prose and verse, mostly written in the epistolary style: chiefly upon moral subjects, and particularly calculated for the improvement of younger minds. By Mrs. M. Deverell, Gloucestershire. ... Deverell , Mary (Author)
Davenhill , Mary (Bookseller)
1781
Printer Miscellanies in prose and verse, mostly written in the epistolary style: chiefly upon moral subjects, and particularly calculated for the improvement of younger minds. By Mrs. M. Deverell, Gloucestershire. ... Deverell , Mary (Author)
Davenhill , Mary (Bookseller)
1781
Publisher An universal etymological English dictionary; Comprehending The Derivations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, either Ancient or Modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Modern French, Teutonick, Dutch, Spanish, Italian; as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper Characters. And also A brief and clear Explication of all difficult Words, derived from any of the aforesaid Languages, and Terms of Art, relating to Anatomy, Botany, Physick, Pharmacy, Surgery, Chymistry, Philosophy, Divinity, Mathematicks, Grammar, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Heraldry, Maritime Affairs, Military Discipline, Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, Gardening, Husbandry, Handicrafts, Confectionary, Carving, Cookery, &c. Together with A large Collection and Explication of Words and Phrases used in our Ancient Statutes, Charters, Writs, Old Records, and Processes in Law; and the Etymology, and Interpretation of the Proper Names of Men, Women, and remarkable Places in Great Britain: Also the Dialects of our different Countries. Containing many Thousand Words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English Dictionary before extant. To which is added, A Collection of our most common Proverbs, with their Explication and Illustration. The whole Work compiled and methodically digested, as well for the Entertainment of the Curious, as the Information of the Ignorant; and for the Benefit of young Students, Artificers, Tradesmen, and Foreigners, who are desirous thoroughy to understand what they Speak, Read, or Write. By N. Bailey, philologos. The four-and-twentieth edition, carefully enlarged and corrected by Edward Hardwood, D. D. Bailey , Nathan (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1782
Publisher Fables of Aesop and Others: Translated into English. With instructive applications; and a print before each fable. By Samuel Croxall, D.D. Late Archdeacon of Hereford. The twelfth edition, carefully revised, and improved. Croxall , Samuel (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1782
Publisher Friendship in death: in twenty letters from the dead to the living. To which are added, letters moral and entertaining, in prose and verse. In three parts. By Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. To which is prefixed, an account of the life of the author. Rowe , Elizabeth Singer (Author)
1783
Publisher The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. By Samuel Johnson. In four volumes. ... Johnson , Samuel (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1783
Publisher A new history of England, by question and answer, extracted from the most celebrated English historians, particularly M. de Rapin Thoyras, ... By the author of the Roman history by question and answer. Lockman , John (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1784
Publisher The art of cookery, made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published. ... To which are added, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts. And also 50 receipts for different articles of perfumery. By Mrs. Glasse. A new edition. With all the modern improvements: And also the order of a bill of fare, for each month, in the manner the dishes are to be placed upon the table, in the present taste. Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
Glasse , Hannah (Author)
1784
Publisher The first part of Henry IV. A tragedy. Written by William Shakspeare, marked with the variations in the manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Shakespeare , William (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1785
Publisher The plays of William Shakspeare. In ten volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The third edition, revised and augmented by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays. Shakespeare , William (Author)
Reed , Isaac (Editor)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1785
Publisher The tempest, A comedy; Written by William Shakspeare [sic]: The music by Purcel and Dr. Arne; with the additional airs and chorusses, by the Late Mr. Linley, jun. Marked with the variations in the manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Shakespeare , William (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1785
Publisher The winter's tale, or Florizel and Perdita. A dramatic pastoral, altered from Shakspeare, by David Garrick, Esq. Marked with the variations in the manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Garrick , David (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
Shakespeare , William (Author)
1785
Bookseller Advice from a lady of quality, to her children; in the last stage of a lingering illness. Translated from the French, by S. Glasse, D. D. F. R. S. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. The fourth edition. Unknown , (Author)
1786
Publisher A Description of Three Hundred Animals, viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects, with a Particular Account of the Manner of their Catching Whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best Authors, and adapted to the use of all capacities. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon is curiously engraven every beast, bird, fish, serpent, and insect, described in the whole book. A new edition, carefully corrected and amended. Boreman , Thomas (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1786
Publisher A Description of Three Hundred Animals, viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects, with a Particular Account of the Manner of their Catching Whales in Greenland. Extracted from the Best Authors, and adapted to the use of all Capacities. Illustrated with Copper-plates, whereon it is curiously engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, described in the whole book. A New Edition, carefully corrected and amended. Boreman , Thomas (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1786

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