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
5055 The life of Lady Guion, written by herself in French, now abridged, and translated into English, Exhibiting her eminent Piety, Charity, Meekness, Fortitude and Stability; her Labours, Travels, Sufferings and Services, for the Conversion of souls to God; and her great Success, in some Places, in that best of all employments on the earth. To which are added, remarkable accounts of the lives of worthy persons, whose memories are dear to Lady Guion. Guyon , Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte
 1772
2136 The life of Lamenther: A True History. Written by Herself. In Five Parts. Containing a just Account of the many Misfortunes she underwent, occasioned by the ill Treatment of an unnatural Father. Wall , Anne
 s.n. [sine nomine]
1771
23725 The life of Madam De Villesache. Written by a Lady, who was an Eye-Witness of the greatest part of her Adventures, and faithfully Translated from her French Manuscript. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Haywood , Eliza
 William Feales (London)
1727
25312 The life of Martin Bellamy; with an account of all the several street robberies, burglaries, forgeries, and other crimes by him committed. Also the method practised by himself, and his companions, in the perpetration thereof. Necessary to be perus'd by all Persons, in order to prevent their being Robb'd for the future. Dictated by himself in Newgate, and Publish'd at his Request, for the Benefit of the Publick. Bellamy , Martin
 1728
3640 The life of Mrs. Gooch. Written by herself. Dedicated to the public. In three volumes. Gooch , Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real
 1792
4445 The life of Mrs. Robertson, (a tale of truth as well as of sorrow) who, though a grand-daughter of Charles II. has been reduced, by a Variety of Very Uncommon Events, From splendid Affluence to the greatest poverty. And, After Having Buried Nine Children, is Obliged, At the age of Sixty-Seven, To earn a scanty Maintenance for herself and two Orphan Grand-Children, By teaching Embroidery, Filligree, and the Art of making Artificial Flowers. Robertson , Hannah
 1791
4435 The life of Mrs. Robertson, grand-daughter of Charles II. Written by herself. A Tale of Truth as Well as of Sorrow. Robertson , Hannah
 1792
15038 The life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch, by Mrs. Dobson. In two volumes. The fourth edition, embellished with eight copper-plates, designed by Kirk, and engraved by Ridley. Sade , Jacques-François-Paul-Aldonce de
 Ann Vernor and Thomas Hood [Poultry] (London)
John Cuthell [1811-1828] (London)
Elizabeth Newbery (London)
John Walker II [20 Paternoster Row] (London)
William Otridge and Son (London)
James Nunn (London)
Richard Lea [Greek Street, Soho] (London)
1799 The Fourth Edition.
15723 The Life of Richard Turpin, a Notorious Highwayman. Containing a Particular Account of His Adventures, From His Being First an Apprentice to a Butcher in Whitechapel, to His Execution at York for Horse-Stealing. To Which is Added, the Life of Sawney Beane, the Man-Eater. A new edition, with additions. Ann Lemoine (London)
John Roe [Houndsditch] (London)
1800 A new edition, with additions.
14989 The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By Sir John Hawkins, Knt. Hawkins , John
 James Buckland [57 Paternoster] (London)
John Rivington and Sons [or J. F. and C. Rivington] (London)
Thomas Payne and Son (London)
Lockyer Davis [Gray's Inn Gate] (London)
Benjamin White and Son (London)
Thomas Longman II (London)
Bedwell Law [13 Ave Maria Lane, 1767-1790, 1794-1795] (London)
James Dodsley (London)
Henry Baldwin [Fleet Street] (London)
James Robson (London)
Joseph Johnson (London)
Charles Dilly (London)
Thomas Vernor [Birchin Lane] (London)
William Nicol (London)
George, George, John and James Robinson (London)
Thomas Cadell [London] (London)
Thomas Carnan (London)
J. Nichols [Unknown] (London)
John Bew [Paternoster Row] (London)
Robert Baldwin I (London)
Nathaniel Conant [Fleet Street] (London)
William Goldsmith [Paternoster Row] (London)
Robert Faulder (London)
William Lowndes [76 Fleet Street] (London)
Thomas Evans [32 Paternoster Row] (London)
William Bent [34 Paternoster] (London)
Samuel Hayes (London)
George and Thomas Wilkie (London)
Thomas and John Egerton (London)
William Fox (London)
Benjamin Collins (London)
Elizabeth Newbery (London)
1787
25436 The life of Sir Robert Cochran, prime minister to K. James III. of Scotland. Unknown ,
1735
25177 The life of Sir Robt. Cochran, prime-minister to King James III. of Scotland. Unknown ,
1734
25444 The life of Sir Robt. Cochran, prime-minister to King James III. of Scotland. The Second Edition, with several Amendments. Unknown ,
1734 The Second Edition, with several Amendments.
25985 The life of Sr. Isaac Newton. de Fontenelle , Bernard Le Bovier
 Robert Walker [Temple Bar] (London)
Elizabeth Nutt [Royal Exchange] (London)
1729
5602 The life of the Count Cagliostro; containing An authentic Relation of the uncommon Incidents that befel him during his Residence in England in the Years 1776 and 1777. His Arrival in France; his Commitment to the Bastile-His Trial, Acquittal, and Banishment. His Return to England in 1786; particular Anecdotes of him till 1787: and, lastly, a Detail of the Circumstances which occassioned his Departure for Switzerland. Dedicated to Madame la comtesse de cagliostro. Unknown ,
1787
25826 The life of the most Reverend Dr Cranmer, Some Time Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan; One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council in the Reign of Henry Viii. Chairman of the Committee for Compiling the English Liturgy, and Martyr in the Reign of Queen Mary. The Whole including various remarkable Events in the History of the Reformation. Unknown ,
1751
22943 The Life of the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Dr. Henry Compton Late Lord Bishop of London. Salmon , Nathaniel
 Abigail (Ann) Baldwin [Warwick Lane] (London)
1715
7408 The life of Theodore Agrippa D'Aubigné, containing a succinct account of the most remarkable occurrences during the civil wars of France in the reigns of Charles IX. Henry III. Henry IV. and in the minority of Lewis XIII. Scott , Sarah
 Edward and Charles Dilly (London)
1772
26104 The life of Tho. Neaves, the noted Street-Robber, Executed at Tyburn, on Friday the seventh of February, 1728-9. for Shop-Lifting. Captain of the Gang of Street-Robbers, executed at Tyburn in May last. A very Mackheath, and Political Plunderer; His private Villanies, publick Vices and Intriegues, with some Sodomitical Professors. The Canting Language in Perfection; and the Art of Sharping, Tricking, Biting and Filching, shew'd, as practis'd with the utmost Dexterity, both in the City, and at--- Unknown ,
Robert Walker [Temple Bar] (London)
Elizabeth Nutt [Royal Exchange] (London)
A. Smith (Cornhill)
1729
25138 The life, adventures, and pyracies, of the famous Captain Singleton: Containing an Account of his being set on Shore in the Island of Madagascar, his Settlement there, with a Description of the Place and Inhabitants: Of his Passage from thence, in a Paraguay, to the main Land of Africa, with an Account of the Customs and Manners of the People: His great Deliverances from the barbarous Natives and wild Beasts: Of his meeting with an Englishman, a Citizen of London, among the Indians, the great Riches he acquired, and his Voyage Home to England: As also Captain Singleton's Return to Sea, with an Account of his many Adventures and Pyracies with the famous Captain Avery and others. Defoe , Daniel
 John Brotherton (Cornhill)
John Graves (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
Thomas Warner (London)
1720
22330 The light risen in darkness. In four parts. Being a collection of letters written to several persons, upon great and important subjects. ... With a large explication of the 24. and 25. chapters of St. Matthew's gospel. By Antonia Bourignon. Done out of the French. Bourignon , Antoinette
 Samuel Manship (London)
Richard Parker (Cornhill)
H. Newman (London)
1703
24154 The light risen in darkness. In four parts. Being a collection of letters written to several persons, upon great and important subjects. Very profitable for the Common Instruction and Conduct of all who seek God in Sincerity: But in a Special manner for detecting the Lamentable decay of the Life and Spirit of Christianity now at this time, and directing to the proper means of recovering it. With a large explication of the 24. and 25. chapters of St. Matthew's gospel. By Antonia Bourignon. Done out of the French. Bourignon , Antoinette
 Samuel Manship (London)
Richard Parker (Cornhill)
H. Newman (London)
1703
25577 The limitation of the peerage, the security of the liberties of the people of England. Unknown ,
James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1720
24100 The linen spinster, in defence of the linen manufactures, &c. To be continued as Mrs. Rebecca Woollpack gives occasion. Number 1. By Jenny Distaff. James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London)
1720
6874 The little French lawyer. A farce. In two acts. Taken from Beaumont and Fletcher. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Booth , Mrs.
 John Bell [132 Strand] (London)
1778

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