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Voltaire (1694-1778)5
Behn, Aphra1
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)1
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Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-17861
Harlow, Elizabeth (1789-)1
Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)1
Lockman, John (1698-1771)1
Prevost, N1
Wallace, Lady Eglantine (1803)1

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The English tavern at Berlin : a comedy in three acts

Harlow, Elizabeth (fl. 1789)

1790

With half title.

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Zadig; or, The book of fate : An oriental history

Voltaire (1694-1778)

1749

First English translation. Vertical chain-lines. The t.p. is engraved. Ornaments: tail-piece. Signatures: pi1 A6 B-K12 L11. Last leaf blank.

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An essay upon the civil wars of France, extracted from curious manuscripts : And also upon the epick poetry of the European nations from Homer down to Milton

Voltaire (1694-1778); Prevost, N

1731

The "Discourse on tragedy" forms the epistle dedicatory to Lord Bolingbroke, originally prefixed to Brutus. "Intended as a kind of preface or introduction to the Henriade."

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Love in many masks

Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823); Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)

1790

An adaptation of the first part of The rover.

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The impostors : a comedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

1789

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Letters concerning the English nation

Voltaire (1694-1778); Lockman, John (1698-1771)

MDCCXLI [1741]

Translation, by John Lockman, of Lettres philosophiques. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Published first in English in 1733, and in France a year later under the title "Lettres philosophiques." The hypothesis (BN...

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