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
12263 Poetical Effusions; Consisting of the Birth of Friendship, the Birth of Affection, and the Birth of Sensibility. By Miss Macauley. Macauley , Elizabeth Wright
 Thomas Sotheran (London)
1812
11683 Poetical Effusions. By A Young Lady, Author of "The Willow Branch." Unknown , [Woman]
 1824
13084 Poetical Effusions. By A Young Lady, Author of "the Willow Branch." Second edition. Unknown , [Woman]
 1824 Second edition.
17135 Poetical pieces written on several occasions of unfortunate and unhappy facts. On the drowning of Mr. John Beers, and Mr. Mulford Sweezy of Brookhaven, Long-Island. On the unhappy occasion of two brothers being drowned in the South-Bay of Long-Island. An elegy to the memory of a friend who committed suicide in New-York. On the fate of war: occasioned by an incident which occurred in Great Britain. An elegiac to Mrs. Elizabeth Ketcham. To which is added An essay on masonry, and An address to spring. By Rachel Devereux. Also, The portrait of masonry. Composed by Brother Devereux. Devereux , Rachel
Devereux , John
 1803
1790 Poetical sketches, by Ann Batten Cristall. Cristall , Ann Batten
 Joseph Johnson (London)
1795
6951 Poetical trifles: or, miscellaneous poems on various subjects. By Mrs. Spencer, Late Miss Jackson; from Manchester. Spencer , Mrs. Walter
 1781
12482 Poetical Trifles. By Mrs. Tonge. Tonge , Eliza
 Oliver Watts (Cheltenham)
1832
12626 Poetry on Different Subjects, by Mrs. Addison: with a few lines by Mr. Addison to a Niece. Addison , Mrs. R.
 1812
25744 Polly Peachum's opera. Containing a medley of new songs, ... adapted to the several tunes she sings in The beggar's opera: with the ballad inserted in the Country journal; or crafts-man of Saturday, April 13. 1728. To which is annex'd a new ballad, ... Dedicated to Sir R- F-, Bart. By a person who performs one of the principal parts in The beggar's opera. Unknown ,
Anne Dodd I (London)
Elizabeth Nutt [Royal Exchange] (London)
A. Smith (Cornhill)
1728
21131 Poor Will's almanack, for the year of Christian account, 1744: and from the creation, by scripture, 5753. Being the bissextile or leap-year, wherein is contained, the lunations, ecclipses, judgement of the weather according to this climate, planets motions and mutual aspects, the sun's and moon's rising and setting, the seven stars rising, southing and setting, time of high-water, fairs, courts, meetings, and observable days; with other celestial phænomenas throughout the year, as by perusal will appear. Referred to the vertex of Philadelphia, but may without sensible error serve all the adjacent provinces, from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By William Birkett. Birkett , William
 1743
21134 Poor Will's almanack, for the year of Christian account, 1747. And from the Creation, by Scripture, 5756. Being the third after bissextile or leap year. Wherein is contained, the lunations, eclipses, judgement of the weather according to the climate, planets motions and mutual aspects, the sun's and moon's rising and setting, the seven stars rising, southing and setting, courts, fairs, meetings, and other observable days; with other celestial phænominas throughout the year. Referred to the vertex of the city of Philadelphia, whose pole is elevated 40 degrees, and a meridian of 5 hours west from London, but may without sensible error serve all the provinces adjacent from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By William Birkett. Birkett , William
 1746
26178 Popery and treason inseparable. In a discourse upon the 5th of November, not forgetting the 4th. Wherein is also some remarkable memoirs discovering the arts of the papists in the death of King Charles the First, very suitable for protestants in this divided age. By J.H.M.E. in Newport-Market. Harrington , Joseph
 1714
3833 Popish intrigues and cruelty plainly exemplified, in the affecting case and narrative of Mrs. Frances Shaftoe. Containing an account of her being eleven months in Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe's family; where hearing, ... that the pretended Prince of Wales was Sir Theophilus's son, she was trick'd into France ... The third edition. Shaftoe , Frances
 1750 The third edition.
24461 Popish intrigues and cruelty plainly exemplified, in the affecting case and narrative of Mrs. Frances Shaftoe. Containing an account of her being eleven months in Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe's family; where hearing, among many other Treasonable Things, that the Pretended Prince of Wales was Sir Theophilus's son, she was trick'd into France by his Daughters, Anne and Eleanor, and most barbarously used, near the Space of Six Years, to force her to turn Papist and Nun, in order to prevent a Discovery. With the Deposition of a Swiss Protestant Woman, who effected her Escape from a Nunnery in France, into Switzerland, (taken before the Lord Chief Justice Holt) from whence she returned into England, in December 1706. The second edition. Shaftoe , Frances
 Mary Cooper [The Globe] (London)
1745 The second edition
25445 Popular tumults religiously improv'd: in a sermon Occasioned by the Late disorders. Preach'd in Goodmans-Fields, August 1. 1736. By Samuel Wilson. Wilson , Samuel
 John Wilson (London)
1736
12507 Portraits, Characters, Pursuits, and Amusements of the Present Fashionable World, Interspersed with Poetic Flights of Fancy. By Mrs. P. Hill. Hill , Philippina Patience
 s.n. [sine nomine]
1795
100 Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Shelley , Percy Bysshe
 John and Henry Leigh Hunt (London)
1824
2764 Posthumous poems of the Countess B-. Unknown , [Woman]
 1796
6182 Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In four volumes. Wollstonecraft , Mary
 George, George, and John Robinson (London)
Joseph Johnson (London)
1798
14529 Practical book-keeping made easy, in theory and practice, according to the true Italian modern method. Wherein; the theory of the art is reduced to practice, by a greater variety of practical examples, in all the different branches of trade, than any extant; adapted to real business; and the useless though troublesome accompts which have been hitherto used in, are intirely omitted, and easier and shorter methods in introduced. The whole delivered in a methodical from, agreeable to the trade of this kingdom. With a useful and necessary appendix; containing, particular methods and directions, for the use of agents, stewards, tradesmen, artificers, and retailers, by the help of which, each person will be able compleatly to manage his affairs without any other assistance. The mercantile rules of arithmetic, fully exemplified. Also, sundry precedents of merchants writings. The whole fitted to the lowest capacity. Intended for the use of schools, and a companion for young accompants. By David Talbot, writing-master and accomptant. Author of the new arithmetical catechism. Talbot , David
 1761
9444 Practical Education; By Maria and R. L. Edgeworth. The Second Edition, In Three Volumes. Edgeworth , Maria
Edgeworth , Richard Lovell
 Joseph Johnson (London)
1801 The Second Edition
3543 Practical observations on the Revelation of St. John. Written in the year 1775. By the late Mrs. Bowdler. Bowdler , Elizabeth Stuart
 1800
25588 Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America, but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes. By John Shower, D.D. Shower , John
 1750
25140 Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America, but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes. By John Shower. The Second Edition. Shower , John
 1750 The Second Edition.
12298 Prayers and Hymns, Translated from the German. 1832

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