Octavo

Name Octavo
Abbreviation 8vo
Description

Each sheet is folded to make eight leaves and sixteen pages. 

Titles

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ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
2488 The British garden. A descriptive catalogue of hardy plants, indigenous, or cultivated in the climate of Great-Britain. With their generic and specific characters, Latin and English names, ... By the Rt. Hon. Lady Charlotte Murray. Second edition. Murray , Charlotte
 1799 The Second Edition.
2465 The British garden. A descriptive catalogue of hardy plants, indigenous, or cultivated in the climate of Great-Britain. With their Generic and Specific Characters, Latin and English Names, Native Country, and Time of Flowering. With Introductory Remarks. Murray , Charlotte
 1799
6072 The British housewife: or, the cook, housekeeper's, and gardiner's companion. Calculated for the Service both of London and the Country; And directing what is necessary to be done in the Providing for, Conducting, and Managing a Family throughout the Year. Containing a general account of fresh provisions of all Kinds. Of the several foreign Articles for the Table, pickled, or otherwise preserved; and the different Kinds of Spices, Salts, Sugars, and other Ingredients used in Pickling and Preserving at Home: Shewing what each is, whence it is brought, and what are its Qualities and Uses. Together with the Nature of all Kinds of Foods, and the Method of suiting them to different Constitutions; a bill of fare for each month, the Art of Marketing and chusing fresh Provisions of all Kinds; and the making as well as chusing of Hams, Tongues, and other Store Dishes. Also Directions for plain Roasting and Boiling; and for the Dressing of all Sorts of Made Dishes in various Tastes; and the preparing the Desert in all its Articles. Containing a greater Variety than was ever before publish'd, of the most Elegant, yet least Expensive Receipts in cookery, pastry, puddings, preserves, pickles, fricassees, ragouts, soups, sauces, jellies, tarts, cakes, creams, custards, candies, dry'd fruits, sweetmeats, made wines, cordials, and distillery. To which are annexed, the Art of Carving; and the Terms used for cutting up various Things; and the polite and easy Manner of doing the Honours of the Table: The whole Practice of Pickling and Preserving: And of preparing made Wines, Beer, and Cyder. As also of distilling all the useful Kinds of Cordial and Simple Waters. With the Conduct of a Family in Respect of Health; the Disorders to which they are every Month liable, and the most approved Remedies for each. And a Variety of other valuable Particulars, necessary to be known in All Families; and nothing inserted but what has been approved by Experience. Bradley , Martha
 Stanley Crowder and Henry Woodgate (London)
1760
21991 The British recluse: or, the secret history of Cleomira, suppos'd dead. A novel. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood, Author of Love in Excess; or, the Fatal Enquiry. Haywood , Eliza
 D. Brown (London)
William Rufus Chetwood (London)
1722
23764 The British recluse: or, the secret history of Cleomira, suppos'd dead. A novel. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood, Author of Love in Excess; or, the Fatal Enquiry. The second edition. Haywood , Eliza
 D. Brown (London)
1722 The second edition.
23714 The British recluse: or, the secret history of Cleomira, suppos'd dead. And The injur'd husband: or, the mistaken resentment. Two novels. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Haywood , Eliza
 1724 The third edition.
6698 The British remembrancer: containing, a new history of England, ecclesiastical and civil, from the happy state of the primitive Britons to the present time; with the character of each monarch, from William the Conqueror to his present Majesty King George II. inclusive. By Mother Bunch. Illustrated with the Heads of all the Kings and Queens from the Conquest. d'Aulnoy , Marie-Catherine
 1756
10184 The brothers: a novel, for children: addressed to every good mother, and humbly dedicated to the Queen. Andrews , Eliza
 1794
21981 The busie body, a comedy. Written by Mrs. Susanna Centlivre. Centlivre , Susanna
 William Smith Sr. [Duchess's Head, Dame Street] (Dublin)
1725
7656 The Busy Body. A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. By Mrs. Centlivre. Centlivre , Susanna
 Harrison and Co. [Also Harrison and Brooke] [18 Paternoster Row] (London)
1779
7630 The Busy Body. A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Written by Mrs. Centlivre. Centlivre , Susanna
 Joseph Wenman (London)
1777
22777 The busy body. A comedy. Written by Mrs. Susanna Centlivre. Centlivre , Susanna
 Robert Davy (Norwich)
1746
7660 The busy body. A comedy. Written by Mrs. Susanna Centlivre. ... Centlivre , Susanna
 William Jackson [Oxford Street] (London)
1755
24886 The Cabinet. By a Society of Gentlemen. Opie , Amelia
 John March II (London)
Jeremiah Samuel Jordan (London)
1795
9465 The Caledonian Comet Elucidated Sellon , Martha Ann
 Francis, Charles and John Rivington (London)
1811
25387 The candidates guide; or, the electors rights decided. Shewing the determination of the rights of elections, by the Honble the Commons of Great Britain ... in all contraverted elections ... The third edition, corrected and improved with great additions. To which is added the like determinations in contraverted elections for North Britain, since the union. ... Together with the heads of the statutes now in force ... By J. C. Gent. Cowley , John
 John Brindley (London)
1742 The third edition, corrected and improved with great additions
25260 The candidates guide: or the electors rights decided. Shewing the resolutions of the Honble the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament. Concerning the rights of elections For Representatives of all such Counties, and Boroughs, in South Britain, as have been Controverted, and Heard, before that Honourable House, at any Time, from the controverted Election for New-Castle-Under-Line, in April 1624, to that of Weymouth in May 1730. With References to the Journals of the House of the several Sessions, wherein the same were Respectively decided. Digested into alphabetical order, with the Names of the Counties, wherein the several Boroughs are Situate; and the Numbers of both severally continued through the Alphabetical List. To which added, Several other useful Particulars mentioned in the following Introduction. By J. Cowley. Cowley , John
 John Brindley (London)
1734
6984 The captive American; or a narrative of the sufferings of Mrs. Johnson, during four years captivity, with the Indians and French. Written by herself. Johnson , Susannah Willard
 1797
8624 The Captive of Valence; or The Last Moments of Pius VI. In Two Volumes. Guénard , Elisabeth
 George and John Robinson (London)
1804
25353 The case between the proprietors of news-papers, and the subscribing coffee-men, fairly stated. Being remarks on their case lately publish'd. Wherein The False Pretences, Wild Project, and Groundless Complaints of that Insolent Set of Men, are duly Examined, properly Exposed, and thoroughly Consuted; And their Calumny of Abuses and Impositions justly Retorted. With a proposal for remedying the flagrant, scandalous, and growing impositions of the coffee-men upon the publick. Unknown ,
Elizabeth Smith (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
Nicholas Blandford (London)
1729
2145 The case of Anne and Isaac Scott, bankrupts, late merchants and dry-salters. By Mrs. Scott. Scott , Anne
 1768
25680 The Case of bankrupts and insolvents consider'd. Wherein it is shewn, I. That the most criminal of all insolvents do not, by the laws now in being, meet with any punishment. II. That their creditors have no proper relief. III. That all other insolvents are too severely punished. IV. That the truly unfortunate are most inhumanly dealt with. And, V. That the present method of treating insolvents in general is inconsistent with the laws of nature, and the maxims of true polity. Together with the draught of a bill for amending the law in every one of these particulars: I. By distinguishing insolvents into their proper and natural classes. II. By alloting a proportional punishment to each. III. By granting mercy in a proper way to the truly unfortunate. And, IV. By giving relief to the creditors of fraudulent insolvents. Part I. Unknown ,
1734
25815 The case of bankrupts and insolvents consider'd. Wherein it is shewn, I. That the Most Criminal of all Insolvents do not, by the Laws now in Being, meet with any Punishment. II. That their Creditors have no Proper Relief. III. That all other Insolvents are too severely Punished. IV. That the truly Unfortunate are most Inhumanly dealt with. And, V. That the present Method of treating Insolvents in general is inconsistent with the Laws of Nature, and the Maxims of True Polity. Together with the Draught of a Bill for Amending the Law in every one of these Particulars: I. By Distinguishing Insolvents into their Proper and Natural Classes. II. By allotting a Proportional Punishment to each. III. By granting Mercy in a proper Way to the truly Unfortunate. And, IV. By giving Relief to the Creditors of fraudulent Insolvents. Part I. Unknown ,
1734
18397 The case of Jane Marie, exhibiting the cruelty and barbarous conduct of James Ross, to a defenceless woman. Written and published by the object of his cruelty and vengeance, and addressed to the public of Philadelphia and the whole of Pennsylvania. Marie , Jane
 William Duane (Philadelphia)
1808
2325 The case of Margaret Caroline Rudd, from her first commitment to Newgate, on Thursday the 1st of June last, to her final acquittal at the Old Bailey, Friday, December 8, 1775. By a barrister at law. Rudd , Margaret Caroline
 John Bew [Paternoster Row] (London)
1775

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