GILL’S INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHILDREN, in Verse. 1709.

JERMIN’S FATHER’S INSTITUTION OF HIS CHILD. 1658.

PASSIONAEL EPTE DAT LEVENT DER HELLIG N. Folio.  Basil.  MDXXII.

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SOUTHEY’S COWPER.  Vols.  X. XII.  XIII.  XIV.

CAIRN’S EDITION OF GOLDSMITH’S MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.  Edinburgh. 1801. 
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SHAKSPEARE’S DRAMATIC WORKS.—­The Fourth Volume of WHITTINGHAM’S
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COOPER’S (C.P.) ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PUBLIC RECORDS. 8vo. 1832.—­The First Volume of

LIVY.—­Vol.  I. of Crevier’s Edition. 6 vols. 4to.  Paris. 1739.

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