Front matter
A Bibliography of Unfinished Books in the English Language
With Annotations
by
List of Authorities Consulted
List of Authorities Consulted
ALLIBONE (S. A). A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. 3 vols. 1888.
— —— Supplement by John Foster Kirk. 2 vols. 1891.
ANDERSON (J.P). The book of British topography. 1881.
BRITISH MUSEUM. Catalogue of printed books. 1881-1905.
— —— (Natural History). Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps, and drawings. 4 vols. (In progress). 1903-13.
CORSER (T.). Collectanea Anglo-poetica. (Chetham Society). 11 vols. 1860-1883.
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AND SUPPLEMENTS. 71 vols. 1885-1912.
ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. 29 vols. 1910-11.
FISHWICK (Henry) The Lancashire Library. 1875.
GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. 1731 to 1890.
GROSE (Charles). The sources and literature of English history. 1900.
LEVIS (H. C.). A descriptive bibliography relating to the art and history of engraving. 1912.
— —— Supplement and index. 1913.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Various bibliographical hand lists.
LONDON LIBRARY. Author catalogue and supplements. 1903-1909.
LOWNDES (W. T.). The bibliographer's manual of English literature. 6 vols. 1857-64.
MARVIN (J. G.). Legal bibliography 1847.
NELSON (Thomas), Publisher. Standard books. 4 vols.
NOTES AND QUERIES. 1850-1915.
QUARITCH (Bernard). Oriental and other catalogues.
ROYAL SOCIETY. Proceedings. 1915.
SIGNET LIBRARY. Catalogue of the printed books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet and Supplements. 1871-91.
SMITH (Joseph). Catalogue of Friend's books. 2 vols. 1867.
SONNENSCHEIN (W. S.). The best books 1891.
— —— A reader's guide. 1901.
SOTHERAN & Co. Catalogues.
SPARKE (Archibald). Bibliographia Boltoniensis. 1913.
UPCOTT (W.). A bibliographical account of works relating to English topography. 3 vols. 1818.
WATT (R.). Bibliotheca Britannica; or, A general index to British and foreign literature. 4 vols. 1824.
WOOD (A. à). Athenæ Oxoniensis 5 vols. 1813-20.
Preface
F the compilation of Bibliographies there seems no end, yet a century ago the word was an unfamiliar one in the English language. Up to fifty years ago we had examples which are entirely different from those of quite modern workmanship. These early Bibliographies dealt especially with periods of time rather than with subjects, as, for instance, Arber's "Term Catalogues," and Lowndes' "Manual," and Allibone's "Dictionary of Authors," which are scarcely considered Bibliographies at all, as we understand the subject now.
To-day we have Bibliographies dealing entirely with a subject, giving in extensive detail a description of all the books relative to that subject—for example, Bigmore and Wyman's "Bibliography of Printing," and Agassiz's "Bibliographia Zoologiæ et Geologiæ."
No book of importance is considered complete now-a-days unless valuable aid is given to the student by the addition of a list of books closely connected with the subject he is studying. He is thus able to pursue his course of reading by reference to these authorities. This is as it should be, as side by side with the general study of the subject an interest in a special or restricted aspect has gradually been developed and the student is attracted to dip deeper into the subject than he perhaps otherwise would, to say nothing of his inclination to verify statements and conclusions deduced and advanced by the author of the original treatise.
We might dismiss from all recent Bibliographies any attempt on the part of the Compilers to record entries of books which are only remarkable for their rarity. This has become the work of old-fashioned Bibliographers, and we are not concerned with such, neither do we think "select" Bibliographies of much purpose, giving as they do only the "chiefest of the chief" books. To cover the whole ground of the subject is to make a useful compilation and a permanent and valuable contribution to a National Bibliography, and an honest endeavour to reduce the book matter of the World to some kind of systematic order.
In this Bibliography it does not matter whether the book commands a high or a low price in the market—the important fact set out in the minds of the Compilers at the beginning was to record, if possible, all the publications they could find by research work, whether old or new, great or small, and to index them for the use and service of those members of the public book-buyers, booksellers and librarians-who will find it of value to have a bibliographical record to which they may turn for information as to the extent to which authors have carried their unfinished publications.
The titles of obscure books have been literally transcribed from the British Museum Catalogues, and if the entry of a book is lacking size or pagination, it is because the compilers have been unable to consult the book.
Our Thanks are due to Mr. F. W. Pepper and Mr. T. W. Wright for much valuable help.
Introduction
HERE is in the study of uncompleted books something which appeals to a quality inherent in most people's minds—perhaps especially so in the mind of the book-lover. Few of us do not know the attraction of rambling in the by-ways of speculative thought, of wondering, as it were, what comes after that which is already known, and of trying to map out a footpath across untrodden fields from the point where the track already worn comes to an end. Not always a very safe attraction is this; for if it be pursued in the regions of metaphysics, of morals, of theology, and of philosophy, it is all too apt to leave the venturesome thinker floundering in the bog whither the will-o'-the-wisp of his fancy has led him. No such pitfalls, however, await the sojourner in the field of fragmentary art and unfinished literature; nor is there any field more fruitful of the exercise of pleasurable speculation and ingenious invention. And yet how impossible it seems to complete any picture, poem, tale or statue, and feel satisfied that the completion is really that which the man who conceived it would have chosen. Take, for instance, the Venus de Milo, in her incompleteness so satisfying yet so tantalising, filling the mind with a desire to see the glorious creation just as it left the sculptor's hands. A while ago a well-known monthly magazine published a symposium, with illustrations, setting forth the ideas of various celebrated artists as to the pose in which the missing arms of the figure may originally have been arranged. Some suggested that Venus was holding a mirror; others, a fold of drapery: in some sketches she was depicted holding a comb, in others, dressing her hair, and—not one but spoiled the beauty of the figure! And so it is with most unfinished masterpieces. Let another hand, another generation tinker at them to their heart's content. The flush of the originator's inspiration can no more descend upon another than Browning's thrush can "recapture his first fine careless rapture." All of which goes to prove, first of all, that even from the purely literary point of view the fragment is not a thing to be depised; while from the bibliophile's standpoint the study of unfinished books offers many attractions peculiar to itself. In the first place, of course, there is the pleasure of discovering that some volume hitherto regarded as valueless is, in point of fact, as complete as ever it can be and, far from being rendered worthless by the fact that "the end" has never been written, it is frequently on that very account rarer and more valuable. It stands to reason that an unfinished book is less likely than a completed work to go to several editions, or to be printed in large numbers, so that it is likely enough that a good deal of unique information is to be found between the covers of some Volume One (A to K) of local history or antiquarian research, whose Volume Two is one of the things which will never be.
Books of the class just alluded to are very frequently found among the uncompleted. A good many reasons may be adduced for this fact, the chief of these being that such books are very frequently published by subscription, and if, for one cause or another, the financial support is not forthcoming after the first volume has made its appearance, naturally the scheme of the work falls through from lack of funds. On the other hand, such a book may be the life's work of some studious amateur—parson, bookish landowner, or what you will and, having placed the fruits of many years' leisure before the public, he continues on his easy-going labour of love until death, or perhaps waning interest interrupts his uncompleted toil. It is easy to imagine that there may have been a good many unrecorded cases similar to that of William Hals' "Compleat History of Cornwall," of which we are told that "the scurrilous details inserted by Hals caused a discontinuance of the publication!" Indeed, some County historians might make a good deal more out of suppressing their researches than out of publishing them!
Then there is the human aspect of these unfinished books. What pathos, what tragedy, what disappointment is there in the fragmentary work which death or failing health interrupted—most of all in the all but completed task whose publication its author was never to see. Years of toil, of thought, of hope, had been spent perhaps: difficulties overcome, discouragement unheeded; then when the bourne was even in sight,
The great heart faltered on the threshold, And darkness took the land his soul desired."
Buckle's colossal scheme of the "History of Civilization" is a case in point. The three volumes which he published, although they form really only an introduction to the work as he had mentally planned it, represent the researches of twenty years. He had, however, put so much of his energy into the work that he was compelled to travel in quest of renewed vigour, and died at Damascus, exclaiming during his last hours of consciousness, "My book, my book! I shall never finish my book!"
There are many examples of writers who have conceived a plan so large that no one could hope to carry it through in an ordinary lifetime, and that consequently the work was destined to be uncompleted even before it was begun. Such, for instance, was the case with Sir Walter Ralegh's great attempt, "The History of the World," upon which he worked for years during his imprisonment in the Tower, yet without bringing the history any further than a little before the commencement of the Christian Era.
Macaulay, in writing his uncompleted "History of England" laboured under a dual disadvantage in regard to carrying out his scheme, for he undertook a task in itself laborious and lengthy when he himself was well on in middle life. The first two volumes of his History did not appear until his forty-ninth year, and the second two followed after an interval of seven years. An entry in his diary for February 8th, 1849, gives an idea of the scale on which he planned his work:—
"I have now made up my mind to change my plan about my History. I will first set myself to know the whole subject to get by reading and travelling a full acquaintance with William's reign. I reckon that it will take me eighteen months to do this. I must visit Holland, Belgium, Scotland, Ireland, France. The Dutch archives and French archives must be ransacked I must see Londonderry, the Boyne, Aghrim, Limerick, Kinsale, Namur again, Lauden, Steinkirk. I must turn over hundreds, thousands of pamphlets. Lambeth, the Bodleian, and the other Oxford libraries, the Devonshire papers, the British Museum, must be explored and notes made, and then I shall go to work. When the materials are ready and the History mapped out in my mind, I ought easily to write on an average two of my pages daily. In two years from the time I begin writing I shall have more than finished my second part. Then I reckon a year for polishing, re-touching and printing. This brings me to the Autumn of 1853."
Who can wonder that the whole book, planned on such a scale, was never completed? In October, 1856, Macaulay wrote: "God knows whether I shall ever finish this part: I began it with little heart or hope"; and again. "I find it difficult to settle to my work The chief reason I believe is the great doubt I feel whether I shall live long enough to finish another volume of my book." He had intended to bring the History at least up to the end of the reign of Anne, but growing physical weakness overcame his resolution, and he was not able even to complete the reign of William.
Among histories which were never completed—leaving out of consideration Lord Acton's "History of Liberty," which was never written, and Dr. Johnson's "History of War," also projected but never performed—the late Professor Freeman's "Sicily" is an outstanding example. Of this monumental work Sonnenschein's "Readers' Guide" says: "It is a most disastrous loss to science that, owing to the death of the author, this important work can never be completed by him." Professor Freeman, by the way, was among those writers who left several uncompleted books, including his "Western Europe in the Fifth Century." This latter book seemed to be destined to remain a fragment, for after Professor Freeman's death it was handed over to Professor York Powell, who undertook to revise the MS., and see it through the press. Before this could be done, however, Professor York Powell's untimely death intervened, and the work in its uncompleted state of revision was returned to Mr. Freeman's executors.
Then there is Bacon's great scheme, the "Instauratio Magna," of which the "Advancement of Learning," "Novum Organon," and "Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis" are the first three books. The "Ladder of the Understanding," "Precursors," and "Active Science" were merely projected; yet are they as much a loss to literature, after all, as the missing conclusion to Bacon's "Essay on Fame?"
It is hardly cause for wonder that many unfinished works have been left by the poets. Poetry depends so much upon the mood of the moment that it is not surprising to find, where for one cause or another the poet's inspiration has departed from him, a total inability to proceed with a poem begun under the spell of some lost fancy. The most notable instance of this is Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," of which he had composed some three hundred lines in a dream, but had only committed a fragment to paper when a "" (rather unjustly held up to the obloquy of posterity!) called and interrupted the transcription. When his caller had gone and Coleridge returned to his poem he found that he had completely forgotten it. No person from Porlock, however, is to be blamed for the imperfect state of "Christabel;" "The Three Graves," or "." With regard to "Christabel," there seems to be some doubt as to whether Coleridge himself really had any definite plan for its conclusion in his mind. Wordsworth's view was that "He had never conceived in his own mind any definite plan for it;" although the poet himself, on several occasions, dropped hints which seem to indicate the contrary.
Keats' "Hyperion" does not owe its incompleteness, as some romantically-minded persons would have us believe, to grief over his unfavourable opinions of the critics with regard to "Endymion." Keats left the poem unfinished simply because he decided that it was too Miltonian in character and had therefore grown imitative and in all likelihood his own judgment was the right one. It is hardly remarkable that a number of other fragments remain among Keats' works, "when one considers his ill-health and early death." "King Stephen," "Cap and Bells," and the "Eve of Saint Mark" are among the more important of these the latter apparently intended as a sort of companion to the "Eve of St. Agnes."
And what of the lost (if ever written) six books of Spenser's "Færie Queene," which the well-worn tradition tells us were destroyed in the fire which burned Kilcolman Castle; or Byron's "Don Juan," of which he himself says:
"I thought, at setting off, about two dozen Cantos would do; but at Apollo's pleading, If that my Pegasus should not be foundered, I think to canter gently through a hundred."
What a find would be a few new "Canterbury Tales"! There ought to have been a hundred and twenty tales instead of the twenty-four we possess; while some people hold the theory that Ben Jonson's unfinished pastoral, "The Sad Shepherd," is really part of a pastoral, "The May Lord," which Jonson told Drummond of Hawthornden he had written, and of which no trace exists.
Gray and Cowley left several works uncompleted; so, too, did Goldsmith, whose "Retaliation," a series of mock epitaphs on contemporaries, would have a value as contemporary history apart from their high merit as literature. The sketch of Sir Joshua Reynolds in this series was half finished when, in the middle of a line, the writer laid aside his pen for ever.
Sir Richard Burton's "Scented Garden" was all but complete when he died, but a spasm of conscience on the part of his widow led to its destruction. She herself has left a dramatic account of her feelings on the momentous occasion.
"I sat down on the floor before the fire to consult my own heart, my own head. How I wanted a brother! My head told me that sin is the only rolling stone that gathers moss, that what a gentleman, a scholar, a man of the world may write when living, he would see very differently to what the poor soul would there standing naked before its God, good or evil deeds alone to answer for, and their consequences visible to it for the first moment, rolling on to the end of time. O for a friend on earth to stop and check them! What would he care for the applause of fifteen hundred men now, for the whole world's praise, and God offended? My heart said, 'Your husband worked for you, kept you in a happy home for thirty years. How are you going to reward him? That your wretched body may be fed and warmed and clothed for a few miserable months or years, will you let that soul which has paid for your soul be left out in cold and darkness till the end of time, till all those sins which may have been committed on account of reading these writings have been expiated, or passed away perhaps for ever.' Why, it would be just parallel with the original thirty pieces of silver!"
So the "Scented Garden" was burnt there and then, and the world has never seen it, any more than it has seen Moliere's translations from Lucretius, which he threw into the fire, bag and baggage, because his valet had used one or two leaves for curl papers.
A brief reference to some unfinished novels must close this survey. Thackeray's "Denis Duval" and Dickens' "Edwin Drood" are well-known examples, the latter having furnished endless material for discussion and correspondence. Pater's "Gaston de la Tour" and Meredith's "Celt and Saxon" are more recent cases, and no one is likely to tackle the business of finishing them. Romances like "St. Ives," by Robert Louis Stevenson, may occasionally be finished by another hand, but no one has done for "Weir of Hermiston" what Sir A. Quiller Couch did so aptly for the former.
And when all is said and done, literary fragments have, and will ever have, a charm, a fascination and a pathos peculiarly their own.
Archibald Sparke.
Bolton, July 19th, 1915.
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A Bibliography of Unfinished Books in the English Language
Iesus præfigured; or, A poëme of the holy name of lesus. In five bookes. The first, and second booke. pp. 110. [Antwerp], 1623. 4to. "No more published."—B.M. "It is believed that no further portion of this almost unique poem was printed."—D.N.Β.
The case of impotency as debated... An. 1631 between the Earl of Essex and Lady Frances Howard. 2 vols. Front, portraits. 1715. 8vo. "Although the title bears 'in 2 vols.' this was the only volume published."—Sotheby's Catalogue.
ABBOT (Evelyn) A history of Greece. Parts 1-3. London, 1893, etc. 8vo. Publishers say, May, 1909, "We shall publish no further volumes of this work."
ABBOT (George Washington) Events in the life of an octogenarian, 1796-1815. London. Series I. 1878. 8vo. "No more published."—Lond. Lib. Cat.
À. BECKETT (Gilbert Abbott) Comic history of England. London. 2 vols. 1847. 8vo. "His [i.e., Arthur William À. Beckett's] completion of his father's "Comic History of England is still [1912] unpublished."—D.N.B.
Academia scientiarum: or, The Academy of sciences: being a short and easie introduction to the knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, with the names of those famous authors that have written on any particular science. In English and Latine. London, 1687. 12mo. "This is arranged alphabetically from Algebra to Rectiline Trigonometry."—D.N.B.
ABRIDGMENT of cases relating to equity practice (including bankruptcy). Vol. 1. p. 1-52. New series. London, 1849. 8vo. "No more published."—B.M.
Satan's stratagems; or, The Devil's Cabinet-Council discovered together with an epistle written by and Mr. Durie's letter concerning the same. pp. 136. London, 1648. 4to. "Translated from the Latin of "Stratagematum Satanæ libri octo," Basilice, 1565."—Β.Μ. The translator announces that if the work found favour he would finish it, but only the first four books were published The stock seems to have been sold to W. Ley, who issued it with a new title, 'Darkness Discovered; or, The Devil's Secret Stratagems laid open,' &c. London: J.M., 1651. 4to."—D.N.B.
ACTON (Thomas Harman) Reports of cases argued and determined before the Lords commissioners of appeals in prize causes; also an appeal to the king in council. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, part 1. [June 1809 to Trinity term, 1811]. London, 1811. 8vo. Above is B.M. entry; Allibone, and also Watts, gives Vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. "All published."—Sig. Lib. Cat.
Description of the sea coasts and islands of Scotland, with large and exact maps for the use of seamen. 1703. Fol. "Of this work the first part only was printed; it is now rare. The second part was never published."—D.N.Β.
A fine narrative of the rise and progress of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1623-1670). Belfast, 1866. 8vo. "Late in life he drew up [the above-named] which he did not finish."—D.N.B.
ADAM (Jean) Miscellany poems. Glasgow, 1734. 8vo. "The volume, which is complete with index, is said in the preface to be in two parts, one 'all in meeter,' the other in 'blank verse in imitation of Milton'; but there is no blank verse in the book."—D.N.Β.
ADAMS (Francis William Lauderdale) The new Egypt; a social sketch. London, 1893. 8vo. "Dedicated to J. W. Longsdon, who saw the unfinished work through the press after his friend's death"—D.N.B.
ADAMS (Mrs. Jane) See Adam (Jean).
ADAMS (William Davenport) A dictionary of the drama: a guide to the plays, playwrights, players, and playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the earliest times to the present. Vol. 1 [A.-G.] pp. 636. London. 8vo. "Unfinished"—D.N.B.
, joint author. See Bright (Richard).
ADOLPHUS (John) The history of England, from the accession to the decease of King George the Third. Vols. 1-7. London. 1840-45. 8vo. "Adolphus was working at the eighth volume when he died on 16 July. 1845."—D.N.B.
THE ADVENTURES of Telemachus. See Fénelon (François de S. de la M.).
ADVICE to the privileged orders, &c. Part 1. 1792. 8vo. "No more appeared."—Lond. Lib. Cat.
ADVOCATES Library, Edinburgh. A catalogue of the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh, 3 parts. Edinburgh, 1742-1807. Fol. "There is an appendix to pt. 2, with a distinct title page and pagination: an intended appendix to pt. 3 does not appear to have been published."—B.M.
ÆSOP at Court or, State fables. Vol. 1. pp. 43. London, 1702. "Probably no more was published."—B.M.
ÆSOP in Downing Street: [A satire in verse on the Whig statesmen]. Part 1. Published under the superintendence of a society for the diffusion of useful knowledge. London, 1831. "Probably no more was published."—B.M.
AGASSIZ (Jean Louis Rodolphe) Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America, etc. Vols. 1-4. Boston, Cambridge [U.S.A.J. 1857-62. 4to. "He hoped to publish ten volumes of this series, but only actually published four leaving a fifth unfinished."—Royal Soc. Proc. 25.
THE AGE of Pitt and Fox. See Madden (David Owen).
Antiquities of Mexico, etc. Vols. 1-9. London, 1830-48. Fol. "At the end of Vol. 9 are 15 sheets paged 1-60, which were intended to form the commencement of Vol. 10. No more published."—B.M. "Illustrated with a thousand lithographic plates from ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics in the royal libraries of Europe Nine volumes out of ten projected were finished."—D.N.Β.
AIRY (Osmund), editor. See Essex papers.
AKENSIDE (Mark) The pleasures of imagination. London, 1788. 8vo. "In the posthumous form a fragment of a fourth book is added."—D.N.Β.
AKERMAN (John Yonge) The New Testament the text from the Authorized Version with historical notes and numismatic illustrations. No. I [Matt. 1.-XXVII., 59). London, 1844. 8vo. "No more published."—B.M.
ALEMBERT (Jean le Rond d') joint author. See Diderot (Denis).
ALEXANDER (Joseph Addison) The Gospel according to Matthew explained. London, 1861. 8vo. "Left unfinished by reason of the commentator's death. The text and commentary of Matt. I-XVI. with an analysis of the remaining chapters."—B.M.
. See British Museum. Egyptian monuments.
ALFORD (Henry) The book of Genesis, and a part of the book of Exodus: a revised version, with marginal references, and an explanatory commentary. by H. A. London, 1872. 8vo. "In the last year of his life he undertook a commentary on the Old Testament, which was only carried to the 25th Chapter of Exodus at the time of his death."—D.N.B.
AL-HARĪRĪ. See Kāsim Ibn 'Alī.
ALLAN (Robert) Dictionary of the ancient language of Scotland with the etymons. No. 1. Edinburgh, 1807. 4to.
Cases of insanity, with medical, moral and philosophical observations, and essays upon them. Pt. 1. Vol. I. London (York printed), 1831. 8vo. "No more published."—B.M.
ALLEN (Timothy Field) Characeæ Americanæ, illustrated and described. Parts 1 & 2. New York: Published by the author [1880]. 4to. "No more published."—B.M.
Author:Alphonsus Liguori|ALPHONSO MARIA [de' Liguori]. Works. New and improved translation; edited by R. A. Coffin. Vol. 1. The Christian virtues, etc. Vols. 2, 3, 5. The mysteries of the faith: The Incarnation; the Holy Eucharist the Redemption. Vol. 4. The eternal truths. Vol. 6. The glories of Mary. Vols. 1-6. London, 1854-68. 8vo. "No more published."—B.M.
ALPHONSO MARIA [de' Liguori]. The true spouse of Jesus Christ; or, The nun sanctified by the virtues of her state translated from the Italian by a Catholic Clergyman. Vol. 1. Dublin, 1835. 12mo. "No more appears to have been published."—B.M.
AMERICAN and English decisions in equity: being select cases decided in the appellate courts of America and England; with notes. Annual. First series. 10 vols. Philadelphia, 1895-1905. "No more published."—Lib. Cong.
THE AMERICAN landscape. See Bryant (William Cullen).
AMES (Joseph) Topographical antiquities; or, The history of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland; containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them begun by Joseph Ames considerably augmented by William Herbert and now greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated by Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Vols. 1-4. London: William Miller; Bedford Bury; William Savye [printer], 1810-19. 4to. "An invaluable work, which it is much to be regretted has not been completed for want of sufficient encouragement.—Lowndes. "The work was never finished."—D.N.B. "No more published."—Lond. Lib. Cat.
ĀNANDARĀVA CHĀMPĀJĪ. A dictionary, English, Marathi, Gujarati and Sanskrit: compiled for the use of students, by Ānandrāv Chāpājī, Parts 1 & 2. [A-Beet]. Bombay, 1885. 4to. "No more published."—B.M.
THE ANCIENT Caledonians. See H. (E).
ANDERSON (Andrew) Heads of lectures on the practice of medicine, for the use of students. Part 1. London, 1861. 8vo. "No more published."—B.M.
ANDERSON (Charles Frederick) Anderson's American villa architecture, etc. Pt. 1. New York, 1813. Ob. fol. "No more published."—B.M.
ANDERSON (John) Clinical reports of cases illustrative of homœopathic treatment. No. 1. London, 1855. 8vo. "No more published."—B.M.
ANDRÉ (Guillaume G.) French class lessons; a series of lessons adapted to the "Classical French Grammar." London: (Guildford printed), [1866]. 12mo. "No more published."—B.M.
ANDREWS (James Pettit) History of Great Britain from the death of Henry VIII. to the accession of James VI. of Scotland being a continuation of Dr. Henry's History of Great Britain. Vol. 1. London, 1796. 4to. "No more published of this edition."—B.M.
ANDREWS (John) Historical atlas of England ancient and modern, from the deluge to the present time with explanations to map. [Maps pl. I.-XII. Text pp. 1-116]. London, 1797. Fol. "No more published."—B.M.
A critical and historical review of Fox's book of martyrs, showing the inaccuracies, falsehoods and misrepresentations in that work of deception. London, 1824. 8vo. "Described at the end as Vol. I."—B.M.
, engraver. The seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales, in a collection of select views engraved by W. A.; with descriptions of each view. Vol. 1. [London]. 1787. Obl. 4to. "No more published."—B.M.
ANSTED (David Thomas) County geographies. Part 1. London. 1872. 16mo. "No more published."—B.M.
ANSTIS (John) Curia Militaris: or a treatise of the court of chivalry in three books with an introduction, etc. London. 1702. 8vo. "Contains only the title page, introduction, and contents; no more appears to have been published."—B.M. "In 1702 a few sheets were published of a work entitled 'Curia Militaris' Noble states that the whole work was printed privately in 1702, but no copy is known to exist."—D.N.B. "Contains only the introduction, and contents of the treatise, pages XLI."—Lowndes.
[ANSTIS (John)] Letters to a peer concerning the honour of Earl Marshal. Letter 1. [Signed N.S. By J. Anstis]. London, 1703.
— —— [Another edition, edited by , Earl of Suffolk]. London, 1706. "No more published."—B.M.
AN ANSWER to several late treatises. See Stillingfleet (Edward).
APPOLLONIUS Rhodius, pseud. See McKnight (John).
APTOMMAS, pseud. See Thomas.
ARABIAN NIGHTS' Entertainments translated into and French from the Arabian MSS. by M. Galland and now done into English from the last Paris edition. [236 nights]. Vols. 1-5. [London?], 1772. 4to. "No more published?"—B.M.
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