History

Name History
Description

A composition, memoir, or anecdote, or record of a place, event, or individual. Works in this category are often derived from the genre designation on the title page.

Titles

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ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
25601 The secret history of the rebels in Newgate. Giving an account of their daily behaviour, from the commitment to their goal-delivery. Taken from a diary, kept by a gentleman in the same prison. The second edition, corrected. Unknown ,
1717 The second edition, corrected.
25470 The secret history of the rebels in Newgate. Giving an account of their daily behaviour, from their commitment to their Goal-Delivery. Taken from a diary kept by a gentleman in the same prison. The Third Edition, Corrected. Unknown ,
1717 The Third Edition, Corrected.
24202 The siege of Calais by Edward of England. An historical novel. Translated from the French original. Guérin de Tencin , Claudine-Alexandrine-Sophie
 Thomas Woodward (London)
Paul Vaillant II (London)
1740
25686 The story on which the new tragedy, call'd, The Roman father, is founded. With some account of the author, and his writings. Unknown ,
1750
25204 The story on which the new tragedy, call'd, The Roman father, is founded. With some account of the author, and his writings. The Second Edition. Unknown ,
1750 The Second Edition.
1694 The study of history. Rendered easy by a plan founded on experience. Dedicated, by permission, to her Majesty. Fletcher , Ann
 1798
25123 The third volume of the compleat history of the lives, robberies, piracies, and murders committed by the most notorious rogues, &c. From the Time of Edward the Confessor. With the Famous Sermon Preach'd by Bernard Sympson a Monk, to a Gang of High way-men in a Wood near Maidenhead-Thicket. Printed from the Original M. S. out of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Together with The Continuation of the wicked Lives of highway-men, murderers, foot-pads, house-breakers, shoplipts, water-pads, kid-lays, hook-pole-lays, molly-lays, bumming-lays, and the surprizing Adventures of several famous pirates, down to the present Time. With the Thieves grammar whereby the Art of Thieving, is fully detected. A Key to the Art of Thieving; newly discovered, whereby several secret Mysteries are unlocked, for the good of the Publick. Never before Printed. Written by Capt. Alex. Smith. Adorn'd with cuts. Smith , Alexander
 Samuel Briscoe (London)
Thomas Warner (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1720
14103 The Voyage of Pizarro and Conquest of Peru. With The Voyage and Shipwreck of Captain Shevlock, in an Expedition Against the Spaniards, Under the Command of Captain Clipperton. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
John Roe [Houndsditch] (London)
1806
14104 The Voyage of Woodes Rogers, Round the World. With the Discovery of Alexander Selkirk, the Origin of Robinson Crusoe. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
John Roe [Houndsditch] (London)
1806
263 Times of Trial; Being a Brief Narrative of the Progress of the Reformation, and of the Sufferings of Some of the Reformers. By Mary Ann Kelty, Author of "Religious Thoughts" and "The Speculator and the Believer" Kelty , Mary Ann
 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green (London)
Thomas Stevenson (Cambridge)
1830

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