bett, Lintot, and Pemberton. MDCCXLI.,” and contains a dedication to Lord Carpenter by Curll. It must be admitted that the book is admirably printed, and very well turned out generally.
I was very pleased to pick up, for a few pence, a little Latin example of Curll’s press. It is ‘Musæ Britannicæ,’ issued by “E. Curll, ad insigne horologii & bibliorum, & E. Sanger, ad portam Medii Templi, in vico vulgo vocato Fleet-street, M.DCCXI.” It is a very nicely printed little 12mo. Ozell’s translation of Fenelon’s ‘Reflections upon Learning,’ issued at two shillings by Curll in 1718, was especially interesting to me, from the fact that it contained Congreve’s epistolary essay addressed to John Dennis (July 10, 1695) concerning ‘Humour in Comedy,’ a literary item which Mr. Curll would be very quick in availing himself of. Fenelon’s ‘Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds,’ translated by “W. Gardiner, Esq.,” came out in 1715 with the names of A. Bettesworth and E. Curll as publishers; and two years later an edition of Addison’s poems and his dissertation on the Roman poets bore the imprint of E. Curll only. Both these books came into my hands during the past year.
‘The True Nature of Imposture Fully Displayed in the Life of Mahomet,’ by Humphrey Prideaux, whilom Dean of Norwich, was a very popular book during the earlier part of the last century. It came out in 1707, and a fifth edition appeared in 1712. Six years later the seventh appeared, and of the four booksellers mentioned in the imprint Curll stands first. His interest, we may be sure, was considerable in the venture; and it is certainly surprising to find the sixteen-paged catalogue of John Walthoe and his son inserted at the end of this volume. Neither of the Walthoes ostensibly had any pecuniary interest in the book, and the wares of the publishers whose names occur on the title-page are quite ignored so far as a list is concerned. In addition to Sir Richard Blackmore’s ‘Essays,’ printed for Curll and Pemberton, 1716—my copy, by the way, was at one time in the possession of Mr. Solly, and contains some of his notes—I have also collected several minor Curlliana, in the shape of pamphlets. But this note has already exceeded the intended limit.
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[A very characteristic specimen of Curll’s press is before us in the shape of a translation from Bonefonius. The very title of this cannot be written. With it are bound up two similar works, one of which is “Cupid’s Bee-Hive, or The Sting of Love. Translated from Bonefonius. By several Hands. With some original poems.” Here, in very unconventional company, appears “An Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, November 22, 1699. By Mr Addison. Now first Printed from the Original. Set to Musick by Mr. Daniel Purcell.” Sixteen pages of Catalogue of Poems, Plays, and Novels, printed for Curll at the Dial and Bible, over against Catharine St., in the Strand, follow.]
JOHN LILBURNE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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A speech spoken in the honourable house of commons by Sir John Maynard……wherein he hath stated the case of Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburne. London……Aug. 11. 1648. S.K.
To every individuall Member of the Honourable House of Commons. The Humble Remonstrance of Lievtenant Col. John Lilburn. [No title-page. Dated] September 4. 1648. B.M., G.L.
To the Supreme Authority of England……The sad representation of the uncertain and dangerous condition of the Commonwealth. By the presenters and approvers of the Large Petition of the 11. September 1648. [No title-page.] S.K.—I am not quite certain that this relates to Lilburne.
A Defiance of Tyrants or the Araignment of two Illegal Committees viz. The Close Committee of Lords and Commons appointed to examine the London agents, and the Committee of Plundered Ministers. In two plas made by L. C. John Lilbvrne Prerogative Prisoner in the Tower of London……London Jan. 1648. B.M., Bodl., G.L., Linc. Coll.
Englands New Chains discovered……by Lieut. Col. John Lilburn. [No title-page.] 1648. G.L., P.
The second part of Englands new chains discovered. [No place.] 1648. B.M., Bodl., G.L., P., S.K.—Some copies have “London 1649.”
An anatomy of Lievt Col. John Lilburns spirit and pamphlets. Or a vindication of these two Honorable Patriots, Oliver Cromwell, Ld Governor of Ireland and Sir Arthur Haslerig……wherein the said Lilburn is demonstratively proved to be a common lyar, and unworthy of civil converse. London printed by John Macock for Francis Tyton, and are to be sold at his shop at the three Daggers neer the Inner Temple, Fleetstreet. 1649. B.M., G.L.
The Legal and Fundimental Liberties of the people of England Revived, Asserted and vindicated. Or an epistle written the eighth day of June 1649 by Lieut. Colonel John Lilburn……to Mr William Lenthall speaker to the remainder of those few Knights, Citizens and Burgesses that Col. Thomas Pride at his last purge thought convenient to leaue sitting at Westminster……London, printed in the grand yeer of hypocriticall and abominable dissimilation 1649. B.M., Bodl., G.L., P., S.K.
Kurtzer Bericht dess jetzigen Zustands vnd Beschaffenheit im Konigreich Engellandt: Dann auch was gestalt her Lilburne. [No place.] 1649. Bodl.
The young mens and the apprentices outcry, or an inquisition after the lost fundamentall lawes and liberties of England. London 1649. Bodl., S.K.
An impeachment of high treason against Oliver Cromwell and his son in law Henry Ireton. London 1649. B.M., Bodl., P., S.K.
The discoverer wherein is set forth the real plots and stratagems of Lieut. Col. J. Lilburne, W. Walwyn and that partie. London 1649. B.M., Bodl.
A manifestation from Lieutenant Col. John Lilburne, Mr William Walwyn, Mr Thomas Price and Mr Richard Overton, now prisoners in the Tower of London, and others commonly, though unjustly styled Levellers. [No place.] 1649. B.M., Bodl., G.L., P., S.K.
Walwins wiles or the manifestators manifested viz. Liev. Col. J. L. and Mr T. Prince. B.M. [No date, but certainly 1649.]
A Discourse Betwixt Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn, Close Prisoner in the Tower of London and Mr Hugh Peter upon May 25. 1649……London Printed in the yeer 1649. B.M., Bodl., G.L., S.K.
