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 prodigious Encreafe of Books, with- 
 in thefe laft fifty Years, makes it 
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 ly by NecefTity, or from lucrative 
 Views only, commenced Authors, 
 and taxed the Publick at too deat 
 a Rate, for their trifling and igno- 
 rant Performances. The Author is^ 
 far from offering his Trajft as a com- 
 pleat Work, or a faultlefs Perform- 
 ance, but he believes, (fliort as it is,) 
 it may rather be redundant in Au- 
 thors, than any Way deficient in 
 pointing out thofe of Merit. The 
 Heads on which he has been fhort- 
 eft, are Divinity, Phyfick, Law, Ma- 
 thematicks, Aftronomy, Gardening, 
 Heraldry, and pther Arts ; but, that 
 thofe who apply themfelves to any 
 of thefe particular Studies, (the three 
 firft of which have Writers in Abun- 
 dance,) may know where to find a 
 fuller Account of the Authors on 
 thofe Subjeds, I have here mention- 
 ed 
 
( ^^ ) 
 ed the Books whichwilLHieft acquaint 
 them withjt^e feveral Performan^ 
 ces, and :rthe , juft : CharaSer. thejr 
 dejferve, ; which are. as follow : For 
 0ivinity,. Bray's Bibliotheca ParochU 
 alh^ 8vo. Wilkin's on Preaching, Bp* 
 Beveridgd*s 7!!6^/Z??^r«j Tkeologicusj 4 
 vols, and Bofwbll's Method of Study- 
 ing, 2 vols/ 8 vo. For Phyfick, Boer- 
 haave's Method of Studying Phy- 
 fick, and James's Medical Didion- 
 ary. For Law, Mr. Worrall's Law- 
 Catalogue, which is a very com- 
 pleat Lift of Books, artd fome fen- 
 fible Gentleman of the Profeflion, 
 will give a Charader of the Books 
 worth having. For Mathematicks, 
 &c. the Authors cited in Mr. Cham- 
 bers's Dictionary, Miller's Garden- 
 er's Di<9:ionary, Coates's Didionary 
 of Heraldry, will, I believe, anfwer 
 3 the 
 
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 the Purpofe. ' If foihe atjlei* Hahd 
 fttali eiilargeimy Plan, it inay be bf 
 greater Ufe :. as it is, tb'tSusfe wJio 
 read in their own Ltoi^uage only, 
 this may be of fome Seivhct j fot 
 their Ufe aloie it is iktxtid^d^ and 
 the Author, who has by a long ac* 
 quaintancB with . Books, become; in 
 fomeDegree fit for this Work, wouH 
 be gkd hereby to be ufisful to others. 
 
 D^P- 
 
DIRECTIONS 
 
 FOR 
 
 The proper Choice of Authors, 
 to form a Library. 
 
 MANY perfons who have a great de- 
 deh'ght in reading, and are unac- 
 quainted with any language, but En- 
 glifti, are at a lofs for want of fome directions 
 in the choice of proper Authors, on the fe- 
 veral fubjeds which would improve the un- 
 derftanding and correit the judgment, as well 
 as pleafe the imagination at the fame time. 
 To affift fuch perfons is the defign of this 
 fmall performance, by giving a feries of the 
 moft efteemed books in Hiftory, Divinity, 
 Morality, Poetry and Polite Literature. As 
 to Arts and Sciences, I -have been very (hort ; 
 for whoever ftudies , any particular Science, 
 whether Law, Phyfic, Mathematics, Aftro- 
 nonomy, &c. will naturally apply to fome 
 fenfible perfon fkilful in them, for his recom- 
 mendation of proper Authors to inftruct 
 him therein. Having had an acquaintance 
 
 B with 
 
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 with many perfons both of learning and judg- 
 ment, (whofe opinions upon moft Authors 
 of our nation I have repeatedly heard), and 
 having read a great many myfelf with plea- 
 fure, I hope I am in fome degree fit for this 
 taik, which I fhall endeavour impartially to 
 perform. My defign alfo, is not for a com- 
 pleat Library of a great expence, but to fuit 
 perfons of a moderate fortune. 
 
 Hijlory is the moft pleafing and ufeful 
 ftudy, and herein, that of our own country 
 we fhould be beft acquainted with. Geogra- 
 phy and Chronology muft be joined thereto, 
 and may juftly be called the Eyes of Hiftory j 
 for the knowledge of time and place, when 
 and where any great events have happened, 
 is as neceffary as to know by whom they 
 were performed. 
 
 GEOGRAPHY. 
 
 For Geography, I would recommend Sal- 
 mon's Geographical Grammar, 8vo. his Ga- 
 zetteer, 1 2mo. and his Modern Hiftory, 3 vols, 
 fol. — The New General Atlas, with Senex's 
 Maps, fol.— or. The Compleat Syftem of 
 Geography, with Bowen's Maps, 2 vols. fol. 
 
 C H R O- 
 
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 CHRONOLOGY. 
 
 And for Chronology, Dr. Blair's, or Mr. Ta- 
 lent's Chronological Tables, fol. — Strauchius' 
 Chronology, by Sault, Svo. 
 
 GENERAL HISTORY. 
 
 As to General Hiftory ; The Univerfal Hif- 
 tory, in 2 1 vols. 8vo. and the continuation of 
 it, called Modern Hiftory, in 46 vols. 8vo. are 
 a Library of themfelves. The firft woi:k is 
 more accurately performed than the continu- 
 ation ; but the plan being executed by dif- 
 ferent hands, is not done fo well as could 
 be wiftied, the frequent repetitions taking 
 up too much room, and perfpicuity is riot 
 fo well obferved as it fhould be ; they are 
 indeed proper for a capital Library ; but to 
 readers in general I would ftrongly recom- 
 mend Rollin's Ancient Hiftory, 10 vols. 8vo. 
 or in fmalier fize. — Hiftory of the Arts and 
 Sciences of the Ancients, 4 vols. Bvo.- — Pri- 
 deaux's Connedlion of the Old and NewTef- 
 tament, 2 vols, fol. or 4 vols. 8vo. Both thefe 
 Authors abound with judicious reflexions, are 
 very entertaining, and deferve the attention 
 which their merit will procure. — Sir Walter 
 B 2 Ra- 
 
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 Ralegh's Hiftory of the World, deferves 
 the fame charader. The beft edition is in 
 2 vols. fol. with his life by Oldys ; but the 
 former editions of his hiftory are equally 
 compleat, (except in his life) only fome bet- 
 ter printed than others; thofe in 1677 and 
 1687, are beft printed. 
 
 Grecian History. 
 For the Grecian Hijlory, Stanyaii's Grecian 
 Hiftory, 2 vols. 8vo. — Archbifliop Potter's 
 Greek Antiquities, 2 vols. Svo. are particularly 
 fuitable. 
 
 Roman History. 
 The Roman Hijiory is fo w^ell and judici* 
 oufly wrote by Rollin, in 16 vols. Svo. and 
 continued by Crevier, in i o vols. Svo. as to 
 deferve the prefer ence.-r-Next to this, Mr. 
 Hook's Roman Hiftory, in 3 vols. 4to. which 
 is a valuable work. — For fuch who cannot 
 afford the price, Mr. Echard's Roman Hifto- 
 ry, in 5 vols. Svo. may fuffice.— With plea- 
 fure you will read the ingenious Ver tot's Ro- 
 man Revolutions, 2 vols. Svo. — Dr. Middle- 
 ton's Life of Cicero, 3 vols. Svo, an elegant 
 and entertaining vi'ork. — The Manners and 
 
 Cuftoms 
 
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 Cuftoms of the Romans, 8vo.— and that ufe- 
 iul work, Mr. Bafil Kennett's Roman Anti- 
 quities. 
 
 Several of the Ancient KQftorians, of late 
 years well tranflated, are very deferving a pe- 
 rufal ; namely, Herodotus, by Mr. Little- 
 bury, 2 vols. 8vo. — Thucydides, by Hobbes, 
 2 vols. 8vo. and fince more accurately by the 
 Rev. Mr. Smith, with valuable notes, in 2 
 vols. 4to. — Xenophon's life of Cyrus, by Aih- 
 ley, 2 vols. 8vo. — Xenophon's Expedition of 
 Cyrus, by Mr. Spelman, 2 vols. 8vo. — Dio- 
 nyfius of Halicarnafliis his Roman Antiqui- 
 ties, 4 vols. 4to. by the fame Mr. Spelman, 
 an excellent fcholar, whofe learned and in- 
 genious notes deferve great commendation. 
 r — Diodorus Siculus, by Booth, fol. — Pbly- 
 bius, by Mr. Hampton, in 4to. or 2 vols. 8vo. 
 — Appian, by Dryden, fol. — Arrian, by 
 Rooke,2 vols.Svo. — ^Jofephus, by Mr. Whif- 
 ton, with large and ufeful notes, in fol. or 4 
 vols. 8vo. — 
 
 For the Latin Hiftorians, Livy's Hiftoiy, 
 6 vols. 8vo. by Mr, Hay, — Tacitus, by Sir 
 Henry Saville and Dryden, 3 vols. 8vo. or 
 
 i2mo. 
 
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 i2mo. a more jufl tranflation than Mr. Tho- 
 mas Gordon'Sj in 2 vols. fol. or 4 vols. 8vo. 
 whofe large political difcourfes annexed, 
 fhould be read w^ith great caution ; his fcep- 
 tical principles being very freely propagated 
 in all his v/ritings, his ftyle too bombaft, yet 
 he is ingenious I ovpn. — Salluft, by Gordon, 
 4to. or Mr. Rov^^e, 8vo.—— Suetonius, by 
 Hughes, 2 vols. i2mo, — Cajfar's Commen- 
 taries, by Col. Bladen, 8vo, — And thefe I think 
 are all the ancient hiftorians an EngliOi reader 
 would chufe, or need to perufe. 
 
 Jev^ish History, 
 
 For the "JewiJJo Hijiory, fince our Saviour's 
 time, Mr. Bafnage's Hiftory, fol. is the only 
 one. — For their religion, ceremonies, and cuf- 
 toms, Leo. Modena in 1 2mo. and Bundy's 
 Introdudion to the Scriptures, 2 vols. 8vo, 
 
 Modern History. 
 
 After the ruin of the Roman empire, feve- 
 ral feparate kingdoms were formed, and other 
 leffer monarchies arofe ; for whofe hiftory, and 
 the more modern times diftindly, pleafe to 
 read Puffendorf 's Introdu6lion to the Hiftory 
 of Europe, 2 vols. 8vo. — Campbell's Prefect 
 4 State 
 
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 State of Europe, both of them very judicious 
 works, and deferve a repeated reading. — Fref- 
 noy's Method of Studying Hiilory, with a ca^ 
 talogue of Hiftorians, 2 vols. 8vo. an ufeful 
 book. — Ockley's Hiftory of the Saracens, 2 
 vols. 8vo. — Sir Paul Rycaut's Turkilh Hifto- 
 ry, 3 vols. fol. or the Abridgment in 4 vols. 
 8vo. — Voltaire's General Hiftory of Europe, 
 3 vols. Bvo. a good work and prettily wrote. — 
 Hiftory of Germany, 2 vols. 8vo.-^Stanyan's 
 Account of Swifferland, an ingenious writer. 
 
 Sweden. 
 Puffendorf 's Hiftory of Sweden, 8vo. — Ver- 
 tot's Revolutions of Sweden, 8vo. — BifliopRo- 
 binfon's Account of Sweden. — Voltaire's Hif- 
 tory of Charles XII. 8vo. Thefe are Authors 
 of merit. 
 
 Denmark. 
 We have no good diftindl hiftory in Eng- 
 lifti : Lord Molefworth's Account of Dea- 
 mark, an ingenious work. 
 
 Russia. 
 
 Perry's State of Ruffia, 8vo —Confett's Hif- 
 tory 
 
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 tory of Ruilia, 8vo.-^Prefent State of Ruffia, 
 2 vols. 8vo. — Voltaire's Hiftory of the Czar 
 Peter, 2 vols. 8vo. that truly great man, 
 
 Poland. 
 
 Dr. Connor's Hiftory of Poland, 2 vols. 
 8vo. — Hiftory of Poland under Auguftus IL 
 by Parthenay, 2 vols. 8vo. 
 
 Holland. 
 
 Hiftory of Holland, 2 vols. 8vo. — Benti- 
 voglio's Wars of Flanders, fol. — Temple's ac- 
 count of the Netherlands, 8vo. an entertain- 
 ing work. — Burrifti's Batavia lUuftrata, on 
 the Dutch Trade, 8vo. — Defcription of Hol- 
 land, 8vo. 
 
 France. 
 
 Mezeray's Hiftory in fol. — Daniel's Hif- 
 tory, 5 vols. 8vo, are worth perufing.' — Da- 
 vila's Hiftory of the Civil Wars of France, 2 
 vols. 4to. or one vol. fol. and Duke de Sully's 
 Memoirs, 3 vols. 4to, or 5 vols. 8vo. are both 
 moft excellent works, and deferve a frequent 
 reading by Minifters of State as well as private 
 perfons. They are indeed authors beyond the 
 
 common 
 
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 rank, efpecially Sully. Voltaire's age of Lewis 
 XlV. and his Hiftory of the late War with 
 France begun 1 74 1 , 8vo. He is a ,moft live-!- 
 ly and entertaining writer, but his volatile 
 imagination too often runs away with his 
 judgment, and fometimes mifreprefents truth. 
 He cannot be quite relied on in fad:s relat- 
 ing to religion, to which he is no great friend, 
 though as a man of humanity, he is a tho- 
 rough enemy to perfecution, bigotry and ty- 
 ranny. 
 
 Spain atid Portugal.. 
 
 Mariana's Hiftory of Spain, fol. a good au- 
 tl:ior. — Lady's Travels into Spain, by .Ma- 
 dam Du Nois, 2 vols. i2mo. — Account of 
 Portugal, by Dr. Colbatch, 8vo.-r-Vertot's' 
 Revolutions of Portugal. All Vertot's hifto- 
 rical writings deferve a careful reading j he 
 is a firft rate author. 
 
 Italy. 
 
 Guicciardini's Hiftory, in 10 vols. 8vo. a 
 valaable author.— Nani's Hiftory of Venice, 
 fol. — Machiavel's Hiftory of Florence, 8vo. 
 
 an author, whofe charadler has been traduc- 
 
 C cd. 
 
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 ed, by his real principles being mifunderftood, 
 
 a 'great gcnitis, a faithful hiftbfiari.i--Gi"ah- 
 none's"Hiftory of Naples, 2 Vols.'fol. a valu- 
 able author.-^ RycautV Livesof the Popes, 
 fol. — Mf. Bower's Hiftory of the Popes', 7 
 vols. 4to. An ingenious gentleman, and I 
 hope a real Proteftant. — Farnewotth's Lifd 
 of Pope Sixtus v.— Gordon s Life of Pope 
 Alexander, and Caefar Borgia, fbl. both wor- 
 thy of a careful perufal. — But above all, Fa- 
 ^er Paul's Hiftory of the Council of Trent, 
 fol. An Author by no means to be want- 
 ing in any colleftion j his fubjeft import- 
 ant, his performance equal, in which Po- 
 pery is fully detedtedin its arts and fraudu- 
 lent condudt.-^To which if you add X,im- 
 bbrch's Hiftory of the Inquifftio'n, by Dr. 
 Chandler,' yoti will have fatisfadlion endugh 
 as to the Papal Hiftory and artifices. 
 
 Great-Britain, Scotland, 
 
 and Ireland. 
 For our own country, it' will be proper to 
 be more copious. As to its defcription, Cam- 
 den's Britannia, by Biihop Gibfort, 2 vols, 
 fol. claims the firft place juftly, being an ex- 
 cellent work. — Tour through Great Britain, 
 
 4 vols. 
 
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 ^ vols. I zmo.-T-England's Gazetteer, 3 vols. 
 i2mo.— Camden's Remains, 8vo. — Ray's 
 Englifh Proverbs, 8vo. Thefe all deferve to 
 be had /or their real ufefulnefe. Bifliop Ni- 
 colfon's Englifb, Scotch, and Irifli Hiftori- 
 cal Libraries, fol. is a moft ufeful work, as , 
 it contains an account of all the hiflorical 
 writers worth notice (to his time in 1714) 
 relating to thofe kingdoms, apd its particu- 
 lar countie^s by whom defcribed. Stowe or 
 Maitland's Hiftory, in 2 vols. fol. of the great 
 and opulent Metropolis of London, which with 
 Weftminfter and Southwark, are but as one 
 city, are either of them an ufeful and curious 
 work.-7-London and its Environs, in 6 vols. 
 8vo. is a pretty work, but injudicioully fluffed 
 up with a lift of obfcure lanes, alleys, &c. 
 which in a fecond edition it is hoped will be 
 left out, or put at the end in fmaller print. 
 
 We have yet no very good hiftory of our 
 
 own country, nor I fear ever fliall. The 
 
 bias on the mind of every Writer, to him 
 perhaps imperceptible, mifleads him in his 
 refledions, and the turn he gives to fadts. 
 The leaft exceptionable I think is Rapin's 
 C 2 Hiftory, 
 
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 Hiftory, with Tindal's continuation, in 5 vols, 
 fol. or 28 vols. 8vo. Rapin is a very good 
 Writer, and more impartial than any I have 
 met with. Smollet's Hiftory is in a lively 
 ftyle, his charadters ftrongly painted, but his 
 unhappy bias is too evident. Mr. Hume's 
 Hiftory, in 6 vols. 410. or 8 vols. 8vo. has its 
 merit as an ingenious vs^ork ; but his vifible 
 difefteem for religion, and his careleflhefs in 
 fome fads, make it not fo valuable a vi'ork, 
 as fo capable an Author might have ren- 
 dered it. For a fhort hiftory, Mr. Kimber's 
 in one volume 8vo. is the beft. — Bifhop Ken- 
 net's Colledion of Englifh Hiftorians, and his 
 own continuation, in 3 vols. fol. is a very 
 valuable work. Baker's Chronicle, fol. is a 
 very proper book for a young perfon to read j 
 his method is good. — Salmon's Chronologi- 
 cal Hiftorian, 2 vols. 8vo. is a very ufeful 
 manual. Thofe who would know well' our 
 ancient conftitution in church and ftate, 
 muft read Selden's Difcourfes on the Laws 
 and Government of England, by N. Bacon, 
 fol. an excellent work. — Tyrell's Hiftory of 
 England, 5 vols. foL — and Dr. Brady's Hif- 
 tory 3 vols. fol. 
 
 STATE 
 
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 STATE AFFAIRS. 
 
 For underftanding minutely State Affain 
 ffom Henry VIII. to the Revolution, you 
 may confult the following works publifhed 
 from original manufcripts. Dr. Hayne's and 
 Mr. Murdin's State Papers, from Henry VIII. 
 to James 1. 2 vols.foL— Dr. Forbes's State Pa- 
 pers in Q^Elizabeth's reign, 2 vols. fol. — Sir 
 Philip Sidney's State Papers, 2 vols. fol. — Sir 
 Anthony Bacon's Stiate Papers, by Dr. Birch, 
 2 vols. 4to. — Sir Ralph Winwood's Memo- 
 rials, 3 vols. fol. — Lord Strafford's Letters, 
 
 2 vols. fol. — Secretary Thurloe's CoUedion 
 of State Papers, 7 vols. — Duke of Ormond's 
 Life and Letters, by Carte, 3 vols. fol. — State 
 Tfadts in King Charles II. and James Il'is 
 reign, 2 vols, and in King William's reign, 
 
 3 vols. fol. But thefe coUedlions are more 
 fuited to a nobleman's Library, than a mo- 
 derate Colledlion. 
 
 Some particular authors there arc, who 
 have copioufly treated of interefling times.— 
 The Reformation from Popery is fo impor- 
 tant an aera in our hiftory, as deferved the 
 accurate account which Bifhop Burnet's hif- 
 tory 
 
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 tory of it In 3 vols. fol. h'ae given. It is a 
 niofl valuable work ; thofe who cannot af- 
 ford to purchafe it, fhould buy his abridge- 
 ment of in 8vo. or 3 vols. 1 2mo. His ftyle 
 in all his writings is eafy, clear and familiar. 
 An author, I think, that will be more efleem- 
 ed, as he is more read. The accurate Mr. 
 Strype, in his Annals of the Reformation, 
 4 vols. fol. and his Memorials of it, 3 vols. fol. 
 has cleared up many fads. Bifhop Stilling- 
 fieet's Church Hiftory, fol. a truly great learn- 
 ed and good man, with Dr. Inctt's continua- 
 tion in 2 vols, are the beft account of ancient 
 times. Mr. Collier's Church Hiftory, 2 
 vols. fol. comes to Charles II's reign ; is a 
 good ftyle and well methodized : but his 
 partiality is too vifible to every reader. 
 
 For our unhappy diffentions in the reign 
 of Charles L Lord Clarendon's Hiftory of the 
 Rebellion, is the fineft work, the beft edition 
 is in 3 vols. fol. it is alfo in 6 vols. 8vo. his 
 continuation of it lately published in one vo- 
 lume fol, with his life, or in 3 vols. Svo.are 
 extremely deferving of a careful perufal. His 
 fiyle is mafculine, elegant and perfuafive, and 
 
 thougli, 
 
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 bias to Charles I. yet we can fcarce ^yoid fyj- 
 giving both him and his hero whilfl we read 
 him. On the fanaeSdg, dre Lord Holiest Me- 
 moirs, Svo.';— $ir Philip Warwick's Memoirs, 
 ^vq. On the contrary Side, Gen. Ludlow's 
 Meraoirs, fol,. ' or 3 vol^. 8yp. Dr. t^rris's 
 Lives of James I, Charles L Oliver Crom-? 
 well, and Charles IJ. 2 yol> .aU 8vo. arfi;all 
 worth reading, being well vvrote. The a^i; 
 curate and autlientici^ memorials o£ Sir Bul- 
 ftrode\Yhitlockej fol. deferve attention. Rufh^, 
 worth's Hiftorical Colledions, 8; vpl?. fol, 
 hay? rn.any vaJyafelQ papgrs. in them. Mr, 
 Prake^s Parliamer^tary Hiftory ir^ 24 vols. 
 8yo. is a curious ai'yj valuable.wprk, and ne- 
 ceflary to be read by all who vs^puld rightly; 
 underftand our conftitution, which it fully 
 explains. Chandler's Parliamentary debates 
 of Lprds and Commons, from 1 660 to 1 742, 
 in 22 vols. 8yo. is alfb an efjteeined.work,— , 
 Anchitell Grey's Cplledt^n, of -Debates , in 10 
 vols. 8yo. is authentic^ ai)d valuable. Bifliop 
 Burnet's Hiftory of his own Times, 4 vols. 
 Byo. deferyes a freq^uent reading. Theca-^ 
 vils which have been publijhgd at it by Swift, 
 Higgons and Salmon, being in general 
 ■ ^ '" " ' ;j groundlefs 
 
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 gfoundlefs and trifling. It is indeed a valu- 
 able work. 
 
 Lord Bolingbroke's Diflertation on Parties, 
 8vo. his Remarks on Englifh Hiftory, 8vo. 
 and his Political Tradts, 8vo. are all lean 
 recommend of that elegant and noble author. 
 Sir William Temple's Memoirs, 2 vols, and 
 Letters, 3 vols. 8vo. deferve reading ; he is 
 a fine writer, and may be depended upon. 
 Wellwood's Memoirs 1 2mo. is a very pro- 
 per book, and a pretty fketch of our affairs 
 from 1588 to 1688. Echard's Hiflory of 
 the Revolution, 8vo. I would alfo recom- 
 mend to the reader. The Critical Hiflory 
 of Sir Robert Walpole, 8vo. by Mr. Ralph, 
 is well wrote. 
 
 Scotland. 
 
 For Scotland, Buchanan's Hiflory, in 2 
 vols. 8vo. — Melvill's Memoirs, 8vo. a faith- 
 ful and accurate writer, and Robertfbn's Hif- 
 tory, 2 vols, 4to. or 8vo. all well deferve a 
 careful reading, and are, (efpecially the lafl) 
 very entertaining. Maitland's Hiflory, 2 vols. 
 fol. a fuller account, but not of equal Efleem. 
 
 Ireland, 
 
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 Ireland." 
 
 For Ireland, Sir James Ware's Hlftory, foL 
 Sir Richard Coxe's Hiftory, 2 vols, and Dr. 
 Warner's Hiftory in 410. are the beft we have. 
 It is a pity Dr. Warner did not meet with en- 
 couragement to com pleat his work. 
 
 Peerage. 
 
 ColHns'sPf^/-^^^ of England, 6 vols. Eng- 
 lifli Baronetage, 5 vols. Lodge's Peerage of 
 Ireland, 4 vols, an accurate work j and the 
 Scotch Compendium, 12 mo, are very ufeful 
 books. 
 
 Naval History. 
 
 Our beft Naval Hijlory is Mr. Lediard's, 
 2 vols. fol. to which add Dr. Campbell's 
 Lives of the Admirals, 4 vols. 8vo. an enter- 
 taining work, as every thing is, which that in- 
 genious gentleman has publiflied. 
 
 Trade. 
 
 As to the Trade of thefe kingdoms, the fol- 
 lowing writers deferve attention, Dr. Dave- 
 nant's Pieces, 7 vols. 8vo. Child on Trade, 
 1 2mo. Gee on Trade, 1 2mo. Britilh Mer- 
 D chant. 
 
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 chant, 3 vols.- 8vo. or lamo. Locke, on 
 Coin, i2mo. Cunningham's Hiftory of our 
 Taxes, 8vo. Lockyer on our Eafl: India Trade, 
 8vo. Stevens on the Spanifh Weft India 
 Trade, 8vo. Plan of the Britifh Commerce, 
 8vo. But the two moft compleat works are Mr. 
 Anderfon's Hiftory of Commerce, 2 vols. fol. 
 and Poftlethwayte's Dictionary of Commerce, 
 2 vols. fol. both juftly in efteem. Sir Wil- 
 liam Petty's Eftays in Political Arithmetick, 
 8vo. are excellent on that fubjedl. 
 
 Biography. 
 
 The Lives of eminent Men, are a very en- 
 tertaining and ufeful part of knowledge. Mr. 
 Bayle's Hiftorical Diftionary, in 5 vols. fol. 
 and the Biographia Britannica, in 7 vols. fol. 
 are the moft compleat works on this . fubjedt, 
 and deferve a place in a Library. But being 
 of a high price and voluminous, the generality 
 of readers . may be well entertained by an 
 abridgement of thofe two works, with feveral 
 additional lives, called, A new Biographical 
 Dictionary, in 11 vols. 8vo. which though 
 it has too many errors, both of the Au- 
 thors and Printers, yet is a very ufeful work : 
 
 For 
 
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 For fome very eminent perfons, both of 
 antiquity and modern tinies, we fhould have 
 their lives at large. Plutarch's lives, 8 vols, 
 vyith Mr, Rowe's fuppl'ement, 8vo. Stan- 
 ley's Lives of the Philofophers,-fol. or 4to, Dr. 
 Prideaux's Life of Mahomet, 8vo. and Xe- 
 liophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, may 
 fuffice. All of them works defervedly in ef- 
 teem. 
 
 Of the Moderns, The Life of Erafmus, by 
 Dr. Jortin, 4to. Bifliop Wickham, by Dr. 
 Lowth, 8vo. Cardinal Woolfey, by Mr. 
 Grove, 4 vols. 8vo. Archbifhop Cranmer, 
 by Strype, fol. Dean Collet, by Dr. Knight, 
 8vo. The learned Grotius by Burigny, 8vo. 
 Lord Bacon, by Mallet, 8vo. Bifliop Bedell 
 and Sir Matthew Hale, by Burnet, 8vo. The 
 great Mr. Boyle, and the pious and judicious 
 Abp. Tillotfon, by Dr. Birch, both in 8vo. 
 Chillingworth, by Defmaizeaux. Dc, Samuel 
 Clarke, by Mr. Whifton. All are faithfully 
 wrote, and well deferve reading for the emi- 
 nence of the perfons. Wood's Athence Oxonien- 
 fe, 2 vols. fol. being an account of all the writ- 
 ers educated at Oxford. Ward's Lives of the 
 Profeffors of Grefham College, fol. are works 
 
 D 2 of 
 
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 of merit and ufe. Mr. Horace Walpole's Ca- 
 talogue of Royal and Noble Authors, 2 vols. 
 '8vo. and his Anecdotes of eminent Painters, 
 3 vols. 4to. are both of them very ingenious^ 
 entertaining, and ufeful performances. 
 
 Travels and Voyages. 
 
 'Travels and Voyages are fo inftruftive and 
 agreeable a ftudy, many fhould have a place 
 in the Library of thofe who can afford the ex- 
 pence. The moft valued colledtions are, Hak- 
 luyt's, in 2 vols. fol. — Purchas's Pilgrims and 
 Pilgrimage, 5 vols. fol. — Churchill's Col- 
 leftion, 6 vols. fol. planned by Mr. Locke, and 
 Dr. Harris's General Abridgment of Voyages 
 ^nd Travels, both by Foreigners and Eng- 
 lifh, very accurately and elegantly improved 
 by Dr. Campbell, in 2 vols. fol. is juftly a 
 jnoft efteemed and entertaining work, 
 
 Travels round the World. 
 
 For particular Travellers round the World., 
 Lord Anion's Voyage, 410. or 8vo. a moft ju- 
 dicious work and elegant in ftyle. — Dampier's 
 Voyages, 3 vols. 8vo. — Cooke's Voyages, 2 
 vols. 8vo. — Woods Rogers's, 8vo. As thefe 
 3.nd the following travellers are in general ef- 
 
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 teemed for their fidelity, accuracy, and the 
 entertainment they give, fo a particular re-- 
 mark on each is unneceiTary. 
 
 EUROPE. 
 
 For Europe^ the beft are ICeyfler, 4 vols. 
 4to. or 8vo, juftly efteemed. — Mr. Blainville, 
 3 vols. 4to. a judicious and entertaining au- 
 thor, and deferves to be better known than 
 he at prefent is. — Mr. Wright's Travels, 4to, 
 very accurate. — Montfaucon's In Italy, fol. 
 or 8vo. — Mr.Ray's, 2 vols, 8vo. — Tournefort, 
 2 vols.4to, or 3 vols. 8vo.^ — Miffon, 4 vols. 8vo, 
 !an entertaining but carelefs writer. •'—Dr. Ed- 
 ward Brown, fol. — Bufbequius in Turkey, 
 ambaflador to the Grand Seignior. Gre- 
 lot to Conftantinople, 1 2mo. — Bifhop Bur- 
 net, 1 2mo. deferves often reading. — Mr. Ad- 
 difon, i2mo. — Dr. Patin, ismo. all very 
 juftly efteemed, The Grand Tour of Eu- 
 rope, 4 vols. 1 2mo. by Mr. Nugent, a very 
 ufeful book. — Baron Polnitz's Memoirs, 4 
 vols. 8vo. or 5 vols, i amo. is a very entertain- 
 ing account of Germany chiefly. — Lady 
 Wortley Montague's Letters, 3 vols, and Dr. 
 Smollett'sTravels, 2 vols, lately publifhed, will 
 entertain you much. 
 
 ASIA 
 
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 ASIA. 
 
 Authentic and in efteem are all the fol-- 
 lowing travellers : Mr. Sandys, fol.^ — Sir Tho- 
 mas Herbert, foL 1677. — Thevenot, fol. — - 
 Tavernier, fol. — Sir John Chardin, fol. and 
 two additional volumes, in 8vo. — Sir John 
 Pryer, fol. — Sir George Wheeler, fol.— Mr. 
 Chifhull, fol. — Dr. Shaw, a curious and ac- 
 curate man, fol. or 4to. — Mr. Drummond, 
 fol. — Mr. Le Bruyn, 3 vols. fol. — Bi(hop Po- 
 cocke, 2 vols, fol. whofe numerous drawings 
 in 200 copper plates, renders it ftill more va- 
 luable. — Ylbrant Ydes, 4to.T— Mr. Hanway, 
 2 vols. 4to. full of judicious and fenfible re- 
 marks, which well deferves a frequent peru- 
 fal.— Mr, Bell, 2 vols. 4to. — Norden, 2 vols, 
 fol. or in 8vo. — Rauwolf, &c. by Ray, 2 vols. 
 8vo. — Maundrell, 8vo. — Ovington to Surat, 
 8vo. — Knox's Hiftory of Ceylon, fol. — Ha- 
 milton's Voyages, 2 vols. 8yo. — Le Comtek 
 Travels, in China, 8vo. — Jefuits Voyage to 
 Siam, 8vo. — DArvieux and La Roque, to 
 Arabia, i2mo.— Pitt's to Mecca, izmo, 
 
 AFRICA, 
 
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 AFRICA. 
 
 Aftley's Colledion of Voyages, 4 vols. 4to. 
 Moore's Travels into the Inland Africa, 8vo. 
 Bofoian to Guinea, 8vo. — Smith to Guinea, 
 8vo. — Kolben on the Cape of Good Hope, 
 2 vols. 8vo. 
 
 AMERICA. 
 
 Voyages of Mr.Frezier, 4to. — Father Hen- 
 nepin, 8vo. — Baron Lahontan, 2 vols. 8vo. 
 Don Ant. Ulloa, 2 vols. 8vo. an excellent 
 work. Charlevoix, 2, vols. 8vo. — Ellis to 
 Hudfon's Bay, in an elegant ftyle, 8vo. — Wa- 
 fers to the Iflhmus of Darien, 8vo. 
 
 Hiftory and Dejcriptiori' of Particular Countries. 
 
 In Asia. — The bell: are Duhald's China, 
 2 vols. fol. or abridged in 4 vols. 8vo. — Lou- 
 bere'sSiam, fol. — Scheuchzer's Japan, 2 vols, 
 fol. — Strahlenberg's Account of Siberia, 4to. 
 Hiftory of the European Settlements in Eaft 
 India, 2 vols. 8vo. an excellent work. 
 
 In A F R I c A. — Darnpier's Defcription of it 
 
 by 
 
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 by Ogilby, fol, and Ludolphus's Hiftory of 
 Ethiopia, fol. arejuilly efleemed. 
 
 In America. — Herrera's Hill:, of Ame- 
 rica, 6 vols. 8vo. — Solis's Conquefl: of Mexi- 
 co, fol. or 2 vols. 8vo. — British Empire in 
 America, 2 vols. 8vo. — Account of European 
 Settlements in America, 2 vols. 8vo. a very 
 well written book. — Beverley's Hiftory of Vir- 
 ginia, 8vo. — Lawfon's Account of Carolina, 
 4to. Sir Hans Sloan's Hiftory of Jamaica, 2 
 vols. fol. Hughes's Hiftory of Barbadoes, 
 fol. Gage's Survey of the Weft Indies, 8vo. 
 Smith's Hiftory of New York, 410. Neal's 
 Hiftory of New England, 2 vols. 8vo. Ry- 
 caut's Commentaries of Peru, fol. Davies's 
 Hiftory of the Caribbee Iflands, fol. Thefe 
 are the moft in efteem, and are authentic 
 accounts. 
 
 The Religious Ceremonies of all Nations, 
 7 vols. fol. Montfaucon's Antiquities, 7 vols, 
 fol. Ruinsof Palmyra, fol. Ruins of Baal- 
 beck, fol. Stewart's Antiquities of Athens, 
 fol. are ail elegant works, and deferve a place 
 in the Libraries of the curious, 
 
 4- Natural 
 
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 Natural Philosophy, Mathe- 
 M A T I c K s a?id Astronomy. 
 
 A little knowledge in Natural Philofophy, 
 Mdthematicks, Ajironomy, and the other Arts, 
 would be agreeable to moft readers, and in 
 fome degree ufeful to all. I fhall be concife 
 onthefe heads, and only mention thofe moft 
 in efteem, and which afford, in an eafy man- 
 ner, ufeful knowledge. Chambers's Dic- 
 tionary of Arts, 2 vols. fol. and the Supple- 
 ment, 2 vols. fol. Keill's Natural Philo- 
 fophy, 8vo, Maclaurin's Account of Sir 
 Ifaac Newton's Difcoveries, 8vo. or 4to. 
 Ward's Introdudion to Mathematicks, 8vo. 
 Ray's Wifdom of God in the Creation, Svo. 
 Derham's Phyfico and Aftro-Theology, 2 vols, 
 Svo. Whifton's Theory of the Earth, Svo. 
 Burnet's Theory of the Earth, 2 vols. Svo, 
 ingenious, but on falfe principles j but the ftyle 
 and thoughts are fo beautiful, it deferves read-f 
 ing. Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds, 1 2mo. 
 Harris's Aftronomical Dialogues, Svo. Re- 
 ligious Philofopher, 3 vols. Svo. Nature 
 Difplayed, 7 vols. Svo. or 12 mo. Mr. Har- 
 ris's Ufe of the Globes and Orrery, Svo. or 
 E Dr, 
 
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 Dr. Watts's Ufe of the Globes, 8 vo. All thefe 
 deferve reading, and are very juftly in great 
 efteem. 
 
 P H Y s I c K. 
 
 For Phyjicky Mackenzie on Health, 8vo. 
 Cornaro on Health, lamo. Cheyne on 
 Health, 8vo. Arbuthnot on Air and Diet, 
 2 vols. 8vo. Dr. Mead's Medical Precepts, 
 8vo. Fuller's Medicina Gymna/lica, 8vo. 
 Cheyne's Englifli Malady, 8vo. Shaw's Prac- 
 tice of Phyfic, 2 vols. 8vo. Quincy's Lexi- 
 con, 8vo. Mr. Boyle's Receipts, lamo. 
 Gerrard's Herbal, fol. 1636. Pomet on 
 Drugs, 4to. Tournefort's Herbal, 2 vols. 4to. 
 But temperance and a virtuous life, with a 
 kind and obliging wife, (for a wife can render 
 a hufband happy or miferable, if he is of a 
 lively quick temper,) thefe united, are the fur- 
 eft prefervatives of health, and on which we 
 may juftly expedt God's bleffing. 
 
 Gardening. 
 
 Miller's Gardener's Dictionary, fol. or the 
 Abridgement in 4to. or 3 vols. 8vo. His Gar- 
 dener's Kalendar, 8vo. Lawrence on Gar- 
 dening 
 
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 dening, 8vo. Evelyn's Sylva, fol. Morti- 
 mer's Hufbandry, 2 vols. 8vo. Duhamel's 
 Husbandry, 410. New Syftem of Huftan- 
 dry, 4 vols. 8vo. Bradley's new Improve- 
 ments in Planting and Gardening, 8vo. Tull's 
 Hufbandry, 8vo. Whoever intends to make 
 either Hufbandry or Gardening his employ- 
 ment or amufement, may have a variety of 
 proper authors on thofe innocent and ufeful 
 fubjedts, by the recommendation of perfons 
 fkilful therein, too numerous to give them a 
 place here : and the fame may be faid of 
 Phylic and other Sciences. 
 
 Painting, Sculpture, and 
 Architecture. 
 
 De Pile's Art of Painting, 8vo. Da Vinci 
 on Painting, 8vo. Richardfon on Painting 
 and Statues, 3 vols. 8vo. LairefTe's Art of 
 Painting, 4to. Monier's Hiflory of Painting, 
 Sculpture and Engraving, ' 8vo. Evelyn's 
 Chalcography, 8vo. Polygraphick Didion- 
 ary, 2 vols. 8vo. Salmon's Polygraphice, 2 
 vols. 8vo. The Handmaid to the Arts, 2 
 vols, 8vo. Evelyn's Parallel of Architedure, 
 fol, ^di\WiOX\ s Palladia Londinenjis, ^to. Half- 
 E 2 penny 
 
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 penny on found Building, fol. Langley's 
 prices of Bricklayer's work, 8vo. 
 
 Heraldry. 
 
 Guillim's Dilplay of Heraldry, fol. or the 
 Abridgment, 2 vols. 8vo. Kent's Grammar 
 of Heraldry, 8vo. Coates' Didlionary of He- 
 raldry, 8vo. Synopfis of Heraldry, lamo. Dug- 
 dale's ancient Ufage of bearing Arms, lamo. 
 
 C o o K E R V. 
 Mrs. Glafs's Art of Cookery, 8vo. Clia- 
 pelle'sComplcatCook, 8vo. are moft efteemed. 
 
 Mechanick Arts. 
 As to the Mechanick Arti, Moxon's Me- 
 chanick Exercifes in 4to. 2 vols, for the 8vo. 
 edition is not fo compleat. 
 
 Military Science. 
 
 Bland's Military Difcipline, 8vo. Horneck, 
 Coehorn, and Vauban, on Fortification. Gray's 
 Art of Gunnery, 8vo. Robin's on Gunnery, 
 8vo, Muller's Works on that Subjedt, 5 
 vols. 8vo. Many others may be added. 
 
 M u s I c K and Dancing. 
 
 Thefe can only be learnt by pradtice. — For 
 
 the 
 
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 the Theory, Dr. Smith's Harmonics, 8vo.— 
 Avifon on Mufical Expreflion, 8vo. — Morley 
 on Mufick, fol, — Malcolm on Mufick, 8vo. — • 
 Holder on Harmony, 8vo. are all in efteem. 
 Eflex's Compleat Dancing Mafter, 4to. the 
 beft I believe. 
 
 Divinity, 
 
 The moft important of all knowledge, an^ 
 the eafieft underftood, fo far as will conduce 
 to our happinefs here and hereafter, but not 
 the eafieft to pradlife. To bear and forbear 
 -are the chief thipgs to be put in pradtice. 
 The practical and hiftorical parts of the Holy 
 Bible cannot be too often read, and will fel- 
 dom want a commentator. Some parts ap- 
 pear obfcure, but are explained beft by com- 
 paring them with other paflages. Some help 
 may be neceflary, for which let me recom- 
 mend Biftiop Patrick and Dr. Lovs^th on the 
 Old Teftament, 4 vols. fol. or thofe who 
 cannot afford thefe. Dr. Pyle on the Old Tef- 
 tament, 4 vols. 8vo. and on the Epiftles, 2 
 vols, 8vo. — Dr. Clarke's excellent paraphrafe 
 and notes on the Gofpels, 2 vols, 8vo.-^Mr. 
 Locke's judicious work on St. Paul's Epiftles, 
 jn 4to. — Mr. Pearce and Hallet on the re- 
 maining 
 
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 maining Epiilles, 4to, Thofe who would 
 confult more fully, may have recourfe to Dr. 
 Whitby on the New Teftament, 2 vols. fol. 
 — Dr. Doddridge on the New Teftament, 6 
 vols. 4to. which two have with moft learn- 
 ing and judgment explained the fame. Bifliop 
 Pearfon on the Creed, fol. — Bifhop Burnet 
 on the 39 Articles, fol. — Mr. Chillingworth's 
 works, fol. Thefe three learned and fen- 
 fible authors, though neceflary only to a di- 
 vine, yet well deferve to be read by every fe- 
 rious perfon, Mr. Burkitt's Practical Expofi- 
 tion of the New Teftament, fol. is very pro- 
 per for a family book. For other praftical 
 authors, to enforce Religion as an adlive prin^ 
 ciple, we have many excellent writers. I 
 fhall only recommend fbme few of the moft 
 judicious, and who beft deferve a perufal, 
 Pr. Clarke on the Catechifm, 8vo. — his Ser- 
 mons, 8 vols. 8vo.— ^Lucas's Enquiry after 
 Happinefs, 2 vols. 8vo. — Lowth's Direftions 
 for reading the Scripture, 1 2mo. — Bifhop Pa- 
 trick's Advice to a Friend, 12 mo. — Good- 
 man's Winter Evening Conference, Svo. his 
 Penitent pardoned, on the parable of the pro- 
 digal fon, 8vo.— -W^ft on the Refurredion, 
 
 Svo. 
 
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 8vo.~Bifliop Sherlock's Trial of the Wit- 
 rieffes, 8vo. — Dr. Jortin on the Chriftian Re- 
 ligion, 8vo. — Religion of Nature delineated, 
 8vo.— Locke's Reafonablenefs of Chriftianity. 
 Burgh's Dignity of Human Nature, 410. — 
 And of our many Preachers, greatly fuperior 
 in that talent to all other nations, (too many 
 to be here recited) the following excellent 
 writers fhould be read, Archbifliop Tillotfon's 
 Sermons, 3 vols. fol. 6t 12 vols, 8vo. — Arch- 
 bifliop Sharpe's Sermons, 7 vols. 8vo. or 
 i2mo. — Bifhop Sherlock's Sermons, 4 vols. 
 8vo. — Dean Sherlock's Sermons, 2 vols. 8vo. 
 Bifhop Atterbury's Sermons, 4 vols. 8vo. — Dr. 
 Whichcot's Sermons, 4 vols. 8vo. If you add 
 to thefe. Dr. Stanhope on the Epiftles and 
 Gofpels, 4 vols. 8vo. and Mr. Nelibn on the 
 Feafts and Fafts, I believe you will have no 
 occafion to purchafe more on this fubjedl, un- 
 lefs your own curiofity fliould lead you to enter 
 into the controveriies between the Church of 
 England, the Catholicks and DiiTenters. But 
 this I neither advife, nor fliall therefore men- 
 tion the writers upon it j only Dr. Middleton's 
 Letter from Rome, is fo ingenious a perfor- 
 mance I cannot omit it. 
 
 E C C LE- 
 
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 Ecclesiastical History. 
 For Ecclefiaflical Hijiory, Echard's in fol. 
 or 2 vols. 8vo. — Whifton's Sacred Hiftory, 
 6 vols. 8vo. — Dupin's Ecclefiaftical Hiftory. 
 8 vols. fol. or abridged in 4 vols. lamo. The 
 beft yet extant is Moftieim's Ecclefiaftical 
 Hiftory, in 2 vols. 410* 
 
 Morality. 
 
 Authors herein are fo numerous, and the 
 tafte of readers fo various, I fhall only men- 
 tion thofe who have been univerfally efteem- 
 ed. Seneca's Morals by Leftrange, Svo.'— 
 Epiftetus's Morals by Dr. Stanhope, Svo. — 
 Antoninus's Meditations, by Collier, Svo. — 
 Collier's Effays, 3 vols. Svo. — Plutarch's Mo- 
 rals, 5 vols. Svo. — Lord Bacon's Efiays, Svo. 
 Charron on Wifdom, by Dr. Stanhope, 3 vols. 
 8vo. — Pafchall's Thoughts, Svo. — Cicero's 
 OiBces by Dr. Cockman, i2mo. — Gentle- 
 man's Library, i2mo. — Ladies Library, 3 
 vols. i2mo. — Dean Bolton on the Employ- 
 ment of Time, Svo. and his Letters on the 
 Choice of Company, Svo. are two moft ex- 
 cellent treatifes, and very entertainingly writ- 
 ten ; the reader will be pleafed they were 
 pointed out particularly. — Mr. Locke's Ef- 
 
 4 i^Y 
 
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 fay on the Human Underftanding, 2 vols. 8vo. 
 his Condud: of the Underftanding, among 
 his pofthumous works, 8vo. both excellent 
 treatifes. Dr. Watts's Logic, 8vo. and his 
 Improvement of the Mind, Bvo. a valuable 
 author, and deferving to be read. Lord Ba- 
 con's Works, 3 vols, foh and Mr. Locke's 
 Works, 3 vols. fol. (hould be in every Gentle- 
 man's Colledlion. 
 
 Government. 
 
 Sidney on Government, fol. by Dr. Birch. 
 
 Milton's Political Works, by Dr. Birch, 2 
 
 vols. fol. or 4to. — Locke on Government, 8vo. 
 
 and Bifhop Hoadly on Government, 8vo. are 
 
 fafficient, I believe. For \hc Law of Nations y 
 
 Grotius on Waf and Peace, with Barbeyrac's 
 
 notes, fol. — Puffendorf's Law of Nature, with 
 
 Barbeyrac's notes, fol. — Montefquieu's Spirit 
 
 of Laws, 2 vols. 8vo. — Wood's Inftitute of 
 
 the Civil Law, fol. — Domat's Civil Law, with 
 
 Dr. Strahan's Notes, 2 vols. fol. But this 
 
 head is rather unnecefTary for the generality 
 
 of readers ; But members of parliament and 
 
 gentlemen of fortune fliould be well read 
 
 herein. 
 
 English Law. 
 
 A very few, and yet fome few, are necef- 
 F fary 
 
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 fary for gentlemen, who do not intend to ftu- 
 dy it as a profeffion. The beft are Wood's 
 Inilitute of the Common Law, fol. — Dr. 
 Blackftone's Commentaries, 4to. — Cay's A- 
 bridgment of the Statutes, 2 vols. fol. — Mr. 
 Burn's Juftice, 2 vols. 4to. or 3 vols. 8vo. 
 Every Man his own Lawyer, 8vo. — Law 
 Quibbles detected, 8vo. a very neceflary book. 
 Sir Matthew Hale's Pleas of the Crown, 2 
 vols. fol. — Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown, 
 fol. — St. Amand on the Legiflative Power, 
 8vo. a very judicious work. Pettyt's Jus Par- 
 liament arium, fol. — Gurdon's Hiftory of 
 the High Court of Parliament, 2 vols. 8vo. 
 Pettyt's Rights of the Commons, 8vo. — Sir 
 Richard Atkyn's Parliamentary Tradls, 8vo. 
 a fenfible writer. 
 
 Entertainment. 
 
 Books of Entertainment^ as fo called, are a 
 very numerous clafs, in which too many nox- 
 ious and libertine doftrines are apt to be either 
 encouraged or excufed. I will endeavour to 
 keep as clear of thefe as I can, for the fake of 
 the Fair Sex efpecially. This clafs may be 
 juflly fubdivided into works of Wit and Hu- 
 mour, 
 
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 mour, Of of fiftitious Life, called Novels, which 
 arc forne grave, fome jocofe. 
 
 Wit and Humour. 
 
 For Wit and Humour ^ the befl I know are 
 as follows : Don Qujxote, by Smollett, 4 vols, 
 lamo. The trueft mafter of humour, mix- 
 ed with judicious reflexions is Cervantes. — 
 Gil Bias, 4 vols. — Fielding's Jofeph Andrews, 
 2 vols. — Tom Jones, 4 vols.— Amelia, 4 vols, 
 the moft commendable of all hewrote.~Pom- 
 pey the little. — Dr. John Echard's Works, 
 8vo. — Sprat's Obfervations on Sorbiere's 
 Voyage, 8vo. — Dr. King's Mifcellanies, 2 
 vols. 8vo. — Mr. Hildrop's Works, 2 vols. 
 i2mo. — Boyle againft Bentley, 8vo. — GoUey 
 Gibber's Life, 12 mo. thefe five laft are fterling 
 wit. Dr. Swift's Works, and Dr. Smollett's 
 Novels, cannot be omitted, perhaps, without 
 being deemed a negledt : yet fo much inde- 
 licacy are mixed with thefe Gentlemen's en- 
 tertaining talents, that I cannot recommend 
 them fo much as I could wifli ; no Authors 
 want more to have their works corredled, to 
 render them truly valuable. 
 
 F2 Romances 
 
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 Romances or Novels. 
 
 For Romaiices or Novels, the beft of this 
 kind are Sir Thomas More's Utopia, 8vo. — 
 Travels of Cyrus, 2 vols. 8vo. — Telemachus, 
 2 vols. i2mo. — Gaudentio di Lucca, 8vo.— 
 Robinfon Crufoe, 2 vols. i2mo. — Mrs. Au- 
 bin's Novels, 3 vols. i2mo. — Belle AfTem- 
 blee, 4 vols. i2mo. — Clariffa, 8 vols. l2mo. 
 Sir Charles Grandifon, yvols. lamo. — Ad- 
 ventures of Millenium Hall, 1 2 mo. — Virtu- 
 ous Orphan, 2 vols. — Raffelas, i2mo. — Al- 
 moran and Hamet, 2 vols. lamo. — Hiftory 
 01 the Severambians, 8vo. — Cervantes's No- 
 vels. — Falconer's Voyages. — Boyle's Voyages. 
 Amufements of the Spa, 2 vols. — Con- 
 ftantia, 2 vols. — Sir George Ellifon, 2 vols, 
 an excellent book. Leifure Hours Amufe- 
 ment. — Perfiles and Sigifmunda, 2 vols. — 
 Vicar of Wakefield, 2 vols. 
 
 Humour and Morality united. 
 
 Works of Humour and Morality united, are 
 juftly in great efteem. With thefe our lan- 
 guage abounds, all worth reading. The moft 
 diftinguifhed are. The Spectator, 8 vols.— 
 Guardian, 2 vols, — Tatler, 4 vols. — Free- 
 holder, 
 
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 holder, lamo. — Turkifli Spy, 8 vols. — Fe- 
 male Spedator, 4 vols.— The World, 4 vols. 
 The Rambler, 4 vols. The Adventurer, 4 
 vols. The Connoiffeur, 4 vols. The Idler, 
 2 vols. The Plain Dealer, 2 vols. The Free 
 Thinker, 3 vols. i2mo. Oeconony of Hu- 
 man Life, both parts, i2mo. M{bp natu- 
 ralized, i2mo. Dr. Croxall's T^fop, i2mo, 
 Pilpay's Fables, 1 2mo, a very pretty book for 
 young perfons. 'Terne Filius, 2 vols. Field- 
 ing's Mifcellanies, 3 vols. London and 
 Gentleman's Magazines, contain many valu- 
 able pieces. Chinefe Spy, i2mo. Jewifh 
 Spy, 5 vols. 1 2 mo. 
 
 Lord Lyttelton's Perfian Letters, i2mo. 
 Montefquieu's Perfian Letters, 2 vols. i2mp. 
 Lady Mary Wortley Montague'sLetters, 3 vols. 
 i2mo. Mr. Howell's Letters, 8vo. an ufeful 
 book. Mr. Locke's Familiar Letters, 8vo. his 
 pofthumous Pieces, by Mr. Defmaizeau, 8vo. 
 Indeed all Mr. Locke's works, in 3 vols. fol. 
 fhould be in every Library, he is fo excellent a 
 writer. Sir William Temple's Works, in 2 vols, 
 fol. or 4 vols. 8vo. alfo well deferve a place. 
 Cicero's Letters to Atticus, by Guthrie, 2 vols. 
 2 8vO. 
 
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 8vo. Cicero's Familiar Letters, by Melmoth, 
 3 vols. Pliny's Letters, by Mr. Melmoth, 
 2 vols. 8vo. the elegance of this Gentleman's 
 tranflations cannot be furpaffed or fcarcely 
 equalled. Sir Thomas Fitzolborne's Letters, 
 8vo. Bruyere's Charaders, 2 vols. i2mo. 
 Sir William Temple's Effays, 2 vols. 8vo. 
 Montaigne's Effays, 3 vols. 8vo. Sir Wal- 
 ter Raleigh's Works, 2 vols. Bvo. Religious 
 Courtfliip, 8vo. Sir Thomas Browne's Vul- 
 gar Errors, and his Religio Medici , fol. an ex- 
 cellent author. Lord Halifax's Advice to a 
 Daughter, and other vi'orks, 12 mo. Mrs. 
 Rowe's Letters from the Dead, 8vo. Mi- 
 nute Philofopher, 2 vols. 8vo. Madam Main- 
 tenon's Life and Letters, 6 vols. 1 2 mo. A 
 Comparative view of the Faculties of Man 
 and Animals, i2mo. a very ingenious per- 
 formance. 
 
 For Afliflance in our Studies. 
 
 Bofweil's Method of Study, 2 vols. 8vo. 
 Clarke's Effay on Study, 1 2mo. Locke on 
 Education, 1 2mo. Dr. Watts on Learning, 
 8vo. Baker's Reflexions on Learning, 8vo. 
 an ingenbus work. 
 
 Poetry 
 
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 Poetry and the Classics in English. 
 
 The laft head we are now come to, which 
 is Poetry and the ClaJJics in Englijh : Of fome 
 ufe on this head it will be to read^ The Lives 
 of the Claffic Writers, 2 vols, i amo, fecond 
 Edition. Crufius's Lives of the Roman Po- 
 ets, 2 vols. 1 2mo. Blackwell on the Claffics, 
 1 2 mo. Felton's Introdu<ftion to the Claffics, 
 1 2mo. Obfervations on the Style and Beau- 
 ties of the Greek and Roman Claffics, by a 
 very ingenious Gentleman now living, 1 2 mo. 
 all thefe deferve to be perufed, and are of a 
 fmall price. For Tran/latiom, Homer by Mr. 
 Pope, in what Size you pleafe ; that in 11 vols. 
 8vo. is a fine Edition -, it is alfo in 11 or 7 
 vols. 1 2 mo. Hefiod by Mr. Cook, i amo. or 
 4to. Pindar by Mr. Weft, 4to. or 1 2mo. Ana- 
 creon by Mr. Addifon, 12 mo. Callimachus 
 by Mr. Dod, 4to. Sophocles by Mr. Frank- 
 lyn, 2 vols. 4to. all thefe Greek Poets are 
 very well tranflated. Of the Roman, Vir- 
 gil by Dryden, 3 vols. 8vo. or lamo. Vir- 
 gil by Pitt and Warton, 4 vols. 8vo. Ho- 
 race by Francis, 4 vols. 8vo. or r2mo. or 2 
 vols. 4to. Juvenal and Perfeus by Dryden, 
 
 i2mo. 
 
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 i2mo. Lucretius by Creech, 2 vols. 8vo. 
 with Notes. Lucan by Mr. Rowe, fol. or 2 
 vols. i2mo. Ovid's Metamorphofes, by Dr. 
 Garth, fol. or 2 vols. 1 2mo. TibuUus by 
 Grainger, 2 vols, larno. Terence, by Mr. 
 Cooke, 3 vols. i2mo. Plautus by Echard, 
 i2mo. Seneca's Tragedies by Sherburn, 8vo. 
 Of our ovi'n Poets, Chaucer by Mr. Urry, 
 fol. Spencer's Fairy Queen, &c. fol. or 6 
 vols. 1 2mo, by Mr. Hughes. Milton, the 
 glory of our nation, Dr. Newton's is the beft 
 Edition, 3 vols. 410. or or 4 vols. 8vo. Cow- 
 ley's Works, 3 vols. 8vo. or i2mo. Dry- 
 den's Fables, 8vo or 12 mo. his Poetical 
 Works in 4 vols. 8vo. his Plays are not 
 all proper for young perfons to read, too free 
 In his images to be chafte, which is the fault 
 of too many of our Dramatic writers. Mr. 
 Addifon, 3 vols. i2mo. Prior, 2 vols. i2mo. 
 Rowe, 3 vols. 1 2mo. ParnelFs Poems, 8vo. 
 Mr. Pope's Works, which are in various fizes, 
 a fine Edition is in 9 vols. 8vo. with Bifhop 
 Warburton's Notes. To fay any thing of 
 his merit as a Poet, would be needlefs 5 all 
 would be far fhort of it ; he is ever pleafing. 
 Mr. Gay's Fables and Mifcellaneous Poems, 
 
 3 vols. 
 
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 3 vols. 1 2 mo. Pomlret, larao. Hulips's 
 Cyder, &c i2mo. Garth's Difpenfary,- 
 lamo. Waller's Poems, lamo. Sir Joha 
 Denham, lamo. Mr. SomerviUe, 8vo.— -i 
 Charles Cotton, t2mo, Butler's Hudibras, 
 J 2mo. Mrs. Leaper, 2 vols. 8vo. extremely fit 
 for young ladies, as is alio Mrs. Rowe, 2 vols.' 
 12 mo. and Moore's Fables for the Female 
 Sex, 8vo. Vifions in Verfe, for youngPerlbns, 
 by Dr. Cotton of St. Alban's, a very ingenious 
 performance, i2mo. Mr. Herbert, i2mo, 
 Dodfley's Miscellaneous CoUedjon, 6 vols.. 
 1 2 mo. being fome of the beft produdligns of 
 the prefent times. Mr. Shenftone's WosrJcs, z 
 vols. 8vo. a truly poetical genius, very tender. 
 Dr. Akeniide's Pleafures of Imagiriation, 8vo. 
 Minor English Poets, 3 vols. i2mp. Mr. 
 Chriflopher Pitt's Poems, 8vo. Mr. Walter 
 Harte's Poems, 8vo. Sir Richard Black- 
 tnore's Creation, a fine poem, juftly com- 
 mended by Mr. Addifont Dr,, Young's, 
 Works, 4 vols. i2mo. Thomfon's Seafons, 
 &c. 4 vols. 1 2mo. Mr. John Hughes's P9- . 
 ems, 2 vols. i2mo, 
 
 I ftiould be forry to have omitted any in- 
 genious Poet's vi^orks, but we have fo many' 
 G valuable 
 
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 valuable ones of our nation, that it \voul4 
 take up too much room to name them all : I 
 believe the above are the moft eminent, and 
 againft which no exception can lie, as to the 
 iporal turn of them ; to which I have en-: 
 deavoured to have regard in all the Works of 
 ^it and Humour. 
 
 Dramatick Writers, 
 
 As to our Dramatick Writers, thefe are fo 
 numerous-, and yet fo few whofe writings are 
 fit for young perfons, that they will fbon be 
 named j Shakefpeare is, beyond doubt, the 
 firft genius of this fpecies : his works have 
 been fo often publifhed, I hardly know which 
 edition to recommend ; you may choofe either 
 Mr. Theobald's, in 8 vols. i2mo. or Mr. 
 Warburton'Sj in 8 vols. 8vo. or Mr. John- 
 fon's, in 8 vols. Bvo. thefe have their feveral 
 admirers. Ben Johnfon's Works, fol.or j 
 vols. 8vo. by Whalley. Beaumont and Flet- 
 cher, 7 vols. Bvo. with notes. Rowe's Plays^ 
 7vols. i2mo. Mr. Gibber's Plays, 4 vols. 
 i2mo. Mrs. Cent-Livre's Plays, 4 vols.— > 
 Shadwell's Plays, 4 vols. Otway's Othello, 
 and Venice preferved. Farquhar's Plays. — 
 
 Southerne, 
 
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 Scutherne, 2 vols. Sir Richard Steele's, 
 1 2mo. Some feledt Plays, Mariamne, Fall 
 of Saguntum, George Barnwell, Cato, Suf- 
 picious Hufband, Edward and Eleonora, 
 Theodofius, Many more may be read, tak- 
 ing the judgment of a difcreet friend in the 
 choice. But too many are not fit to be put 
 into young perfons hands, as they would taint 
 the mind otherwife well inclined; 
 
 For forrie account of our Poetid^ £lnd Dra- 
 matick Writers and their works, Jacob's Lives 
 of the Poets, 2 vols. 8vo. Cibber's Lives of 
 the Poets, 5 vols. iSmo. Mr. Wartoti's in- 
 geniousEflay on the Genius and Writings of 
 Pope. Lord Orrery's Life of Swift, 8vo. and 
 Dean Swift's Memoirs of Dean Swift, 8 vo. 
 
 For our Language, the beft Didionary is 
 Mr. John{on's, 2 vols. fol. — For common ufe, 
 Dyche's Didlionary, by Pardon, 8vo, or 
 Bailey's Didionary, 8vo. Dr. Lowth's En- 
 glifh Grammar, 1 2mo. and Mr. Harris's Her- 
 mes, 8vo. 
 
 I here finifh this Lift, and my Obfervations, 
 confcious it is far from a compleat Perfqr- 
 
 G 2 mance, 
 
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 rflance, which indeed would be a large wotk, 
 if attended with proper criticifms on all the 
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 perfon's writings through partiality, or any 
 private view j deffrous to give no ofFence, and 
 to be of ufe as far as I can. Having fub- 
 mitted this Effay to the opinion of fbme very 
 feniiblc Gentlemen, who have encougaged its 
 publication, I have confented thereto j and I 
 wifh it may meet with candor and a favour- 
 able allowance from the Reader. 
 
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