Name Octavo
Abbreviation 8vo
Description

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

Titles

Displaying 426–450 of 4043

ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
25301 A safe way to health, long life and happiness. Or, a brief discourse on all things necessary for the life of man, and which most conduce to the Preservation of Health. To which is added, some observations on windy diseases and surfeits, and certain means to prevent them. Published for the benefit of mankind. Unknown ,
1727
25087 A safe way to health, long life and happiness. Or, a brief discourse on all things necessary for the life of man, and which most conduce to the Preservation of Health. To which is added, some observations on windy diseases and surfeits, and certain means to prevent them. Published for the benefit of mankind. Unknown ,
1728
22559 A salutation and seasonable exhortation to children. By Dorcas Dole. Dole , Dorcas
1700
15117 A saving of twenty per cent. A treatise on the brewing of beer, & porter, wherein is proved that one bushel of malt will produce a gallon of beer more than another bushel of an equal strength, although both malts be made of one sort or species of barley. In this work will be found some profitable and necessary directions to maltsters. Improvements in the brew-house, and brewing utensils. Showing the cause what makes hard and four beer. Directions for preventing bear from becoming sour or foxed, even if brewed in the warmest season, also directions in what state to cleanse the beer, so as to have it fine without using any art or device whatsoever; and for the management of the beer in the cellar. Some observations in the choice of hops; proving that they are useful after they have been used in brewing. The different experiments are from twenty years practice. By E. Hughes. Some very useful and necessary directions to the publican who retails common Brewer's beer. Fourth edition, with an appendix; containing directions for making and drying of malt for beer and porter, from a new and improved method.---Assisted by a Maltster, of 30 years experience, with the necessary improvements on the kiln, for drying porter malt, &c. Hughes , E.
1798 Fourth edition, with an appendix; containing directions for making and drying of malt for beer and porter, from a new and improved method.---Assisted by a Maltster, of 30 years experience, with the ne
15063 A saving of twenty per cent. A treatise on the brewing of beer, wherein is proved that one bushel of malt will produce a gallon of beer more than another bushel of an equal strength, although both malts be made of one sort or species of barley. In this work will be found some profitable and necessary instructions to maltsters. Improvements in the brew-house, and brewing untensils. Showing the cause what makes hard and sour beer. Directions for preventing beer from becoming sour or foxed, even if used in the warmest season. Also directions in what state to cleanse the beer, so as to have it fine without using any art or device whatsoever; and for the management of the beer in the cellar. Some observations in the choice of hops; proving that they are useful after they have been used in brewing. The different experiments are from twenty years practice. By E. Hughes. Some very useful and necesary directions to the publican who retails common brewer's beer. Second edition. Hughes , E.
1796 Second edition.
25660 A scheme for proper methods to be taken, should it please God to visit us with the plague. By Sir John Colbatch, A Member of the College of Physicians. Colbatch , John
1721
25779 A scheme or proposal for taking off the several taxes on land, soap, starch, Candles, Leather, Plate, Pots, &c. and replacing the said duties by another tax, which will bring in more Money, in a more Easy and Equal Manner, and less burthensome to the Subject: Humbly offered to the Consideration of the Parliament, as also the People of England, for whose Ease and Benefit this is design'd. Plainly proving, That the Duties on Soap, Candles, and Leather, which do not bring in 600,000 l. a Year, cost the Subject more than double that Sum: So that this Method is calculated to ease the People of one Half of the Sum they now pay, on Account of those several Taxes, and at the same Time Encrease the Revenue. To which is added, Some Considerations on the several Duties upon Tea, Coffee, Chocolat, and Salt, which may be also taken off, and replaced by the same Method, with any Thing else, that is either burthensome to Trade, or a Hardship upon particular Persons, of which the Pot-Act is a glaring Instance; and upon any Emergency a larger Sum may be raised. Unknown ,
1733
4251 A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride: a Comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. By Mrs. Cowley. Cowley , Hannah
George, George, John and James Robinson (London)
1786
4250 A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride: a Comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. By Mrs. Cowley. The Second Edition. Cowley , Hannah
George, George, John and James Robinson (London)
1787 The Second Edition.
3996 A search after happiness: a pastoral. In three dialogues. By a young lady. More , Hannah
1773
8393 A Season at Harrogate; In a Series of Poetical Epistles, from Benjamin Blunderhead, Esquire, to his Mother, In Derbyshire: With useful and copious Notes, descriptive of the Objects most worthy of Attention in the Vicinity of Harrogate. Hofland , Barbara
1812
25628 A second and last collection of the most celebrated prologues and epilogues spoken at the theatres of Drury-Lane and Lincolns-Inn. To which is added, a poem entitled, The progress of life. Unknown ,
1727
25762 A second and last collection of the most celebrated prologues and epilogues spoken at the theatres of Drury-Lane and Lincolns-Inn. To which is added, a poem entitled, the progress of life. The Second Edition. Unknown ,
1727 The Second Edition.
25233 A second letter to Dr. Biss. Occasioned by some alterations made in his third edition of his sermons. Upon the beauty of holiness in the Common-prayer. By W. J. author of the first. J. , W.
John Harrison (Cornhill)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1717
24999 A second letter to the Right Reverend Richard, Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry. In defence of a former letter to his Lordship. Wherein that misrepresented and injured Christian society, called Quakers, are impartially defended against his Lordship's vindicator. By T. S. S. , T.
James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
Elizabeth Nutt [Royal Exchange] (London)
1733
24934 A Secret History of One Year Defoe , Daniel
1714
2747 A selection from the Annals of virtue, of Madame Sillery: containing the Most Important and Interesting Anecdotes from the histories of Spain, Portugal, China, Japan, and America: With some Account of the Manners, Customs, Arts and Sciences of France. Translated from the French by Elizabeth Mary James. du Crest de Saint-Aubin , Stéphanie Félicité
1794
4821 A sentimental tour through Newcastle; By a young lady. Harvey , Jane
1794
6200 A series of letters for the use of young ladies and gentlemen in French and English. By Mary Guilhermin. Guilhermin , Mary
1766
11467 A Series of Plays: In Which It is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind Each Passion being the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy. By Joanna Baillie. Fourth Edition. Vol. I. Baillie , Joanna
Thomas Cadell and William Davies (London)
1802 Fourth Edition.
8299 A series of plays: in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy. By Joanna Baillie. Vol. II. Baillie , Joanna
Thomas Cadell and William Davies (London)
1802
11464 A Series of Plays: in which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind: Each Passion being the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy. By Joanna Baillie. Fifth Edition. Vol. I. Baillie , Joanna
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme (London)
1806 Fifth Edition.
11459 A Series of Plays: In Which It is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind: Each Passion beng the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy. By Joanna Baillie. A New Edition. Baillie , Joanna
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (London)
1821 New
11455 A Series of Plays: in Which It is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind. By Joanna Baillie. Volume III. Baillie , Joanna
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (London)
1812
5092 A series of plays: in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind. Each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy. Baillie , Joanna
Thomas Cadell and William Davies (London)
1798