12mo. No copy of this edition was located. The above title is from the copy of the first edition, 1741, in the Library of
Congress.
Halkett and Laing III, page 70.
This edition not in Lowndes.
According to Halkett and Laing, under this title, the author of The History of Prince Eugene was John Banks.
It is not listed under “Banks” in the news edition of the British Museum catalogue and in the old edition is listed under
Churchill, without author.
John Churchill, 1650-1722, first Duke of Marlborough.
John Banks, 1709-1751, English miscellaneous writer.
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Orrery’s life of Swift.
12
mo.
1667-1745.
1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 11, as above.
Boyle, John, earl of orrery.
Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin; in a Series of Letters from John Earl of Orrery to his Son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle. The
Second Edition, corrected . . .
London: Printed for
A. Millar,
1752.
PR3726 .C7
12mo. in eights. 121 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece by Ravenet.
Lowndes V, page 2561.
Teerink,
A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Jonathan Swift, D.D., 1333.
This book is on Jefferson’s lists of recommended historical reading.
John Boyle, fifth Earl of Orrery, 1707-1762. The
Remarks are given in a series of letters to Orrery’s son and successor, Hamilton Boyle,
Student of Christ-Church College in Oxford. Several editions in 12mo. were published in 1752 and it is not known which was in Jefferson’s collection. The first edition
was published earlier in the same year, in octavo.
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Ayre’s life of Pope.
2. v.
12
mo.
1688-1744.
1815 Catalogue, page 17. no. 10, as above.
AYRE,
William.
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq; Faithfully Collected from Authentic Authors, Original Manuscripts,
and the Testimonies of many Persons of Credit and Honour: Adorned with the Heads of divers Illustrious Persons, treated of
in these Memoirs, curiously engrav’d by the best Hands. In
Two Volumes. By William Ayre, Esq;
London: Printed by his Majesty’s Authority, For the Author, and Sold by the Booksellers,
1745.
PR3633 .A8
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. in eights. vol. I, 183 leaves; vol. II, 202 leaves; engraved portraits in both volumes by Parr. The title-page of the second volume differs slightly from that of the first.
Lowndes I, page 90.
Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature II, page 301.
Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, English poet.
William Ayre, fl. 1734-45.
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[Locke’s memoirs of Shaftesbury. in op.
] 1671.-1713.
1815 Catalogue, page 19. unnumbered, as above.
For the “op.” see in chapter 44.
