Year Author (if known)
Title
1703 Charles Sorel The comical history of Francion, Satyrically exposing folly and vice, in variety of humours and adventures. Written in French by the Sieur de …
1707 Edward Ward The London Terraefilius: or, the Satyrical Reformer. Being Drolling Reflections on the Vices and Vanieties of Both Sexes. To be Continu’d. By the …
1714 Saint-Evremond
The works of Monsieur de St. Evremond, made English from the French original. With the author’s life, by Mr. des Maizeaux. To which are added, …
1719 Love in masquerade: or, Seeing is not believing. Containing several pleasant adventures in the masquerading way
1723 Capt. Charles Walker
Authentick memoirs of the life, intrigues and adventures of the celebrated Sally Salisbury. With true characters of her most considerable gallants. …
1725 Captain Anstruther of Spencerfield
A letter from the man in the moon, to Mr. Anodyne Necklace; containing an account of a robbery committed in hell, and the breaking open the …
1725 Thomas Brown
Amusements serious and comical. By Mr. Thomas Brown.
With his walk round London and Westminster, exposing the vices and follies of the town. To …
1725 A new canting dictionary: Comprehending All the terms, Antient and Modern, Used in the Several tribes of Gypsies, Beggars, Shoplifters, …
1728 Author of Dalton’s Narrative
Villany exploded: or, The mistery of iniquity laid open: In a faithful relation of all the street-robberies, committed by the notorious gang now …
1728 An essay against too much reading. With The whole Lives and Proceedings of Sancho and Peepo, at Aix la Chapelle in Germany. And A true account …
1730 Henry Fielding
The letter-Writers: or, a new way to keep a wife at home. A farce, in three acts, As it is acted at the theatre in the Hay-Market, Written by …
1735 B.N.
(Benjamin Norton) Defoe
A compleat English dictionary. Containing the true meaning of all words in the English language: also the proper names of all the kingdoms, Towns, …
1736 J.A. Purves Law-Visions; or, pills for posterity
1737 William Hunt, gauger
The projectors. A comedy. As it was intended to be acted at one of the theatres
1737 O. Sedgewick The world turn’d inside-out; or, humankind unmask’d. Vol.
I.
1738 The informers outwitted: a tragi-comical farce. As it has been rehears’d at the New-Exchange in Rag-Fair. Written originally in Hebrew, and …
1741 G.L. The amorous gallant’s tongue tipp’d with golden
expressions: or, The art of courtship refined, being the best and newest academy. Containing I. …
1741 Abbé Prévost The history of a fair Greek, who was taken out of a Seraglio at Constantinople, and brought to Paris by a Late
Embassador At The Ottoman Port:
1741 Jeremy Sharp The English rogue: or, the life of Jeremy Sharp, commonly called, Meriton Latroon. Shewing, his birth and parentage;
the many pranks he play’d 1743 Henry
Fielding
Miscellanies, by Henry Fielding Esq; In three volumes 1744 A select collection of old plays. Volume the First
1745 The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, the noted Devonshire stroller and dog-stealer; as related by himself, during his passage to the …
1748 Isaac Cousteil A French idiomatic and critical vocabulary, alphabetically digested. Wherein is contained, An extensive Variety of Words, so disposed, that a …
1749 Henry Fielding
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling. In four volumes. By Henry Fielding, Esq;
1751 Francis Coventry
The history of Pompey the little: or, the life and adventures of a lap-dog
The school of man. A moral, critical, and anecdotical work.
Translated from the French. To which is added, a key to the characters, which …
1754 William Dodd
The sisters; or the history of Lucy and Caroline Sanson, entrusted to a false friend. In two volumes. …
1755 Ghost of Shakespeare
Memoirs of the Shakespear’s-Head in Covent Garden: in which are introduced many entertaining adventures, and several remarkable characters. By …
1755 Ghost of Shakespeare
Memoirs of the Shakespear’s-Head in Covent Garden: in which are introduced many entertaining adventures, and several remarkable characters. By …
1758 Chiron: or, the mental optician … 1759 The juvenile adventures of Miss Kitty F-r
1759 Memoirs of the celebrated Miss Fanny M-. Vol. II. Vol. II 1760 The Auction: a modern novel. In two volumes.
1760 Charles Townly
The courtezans: a comedy of two acts: founded on truth; and acted every night at Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. By Charles Townly, Esq;
1761 Fugitive pieces, on various subjects. By several authors. In two volumes. … . Containing I. Crito: or a dialogue on beauty. II. An account of …
1761 John Poulter The discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter; who was apprehended for robbing Dr Hancock, of Salisbury. … Written wholly by himself. …
1763 Arthur Murphy
The citizen. A farce. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By Arthur Murphy, Esq;
1764 Phoebe Gibbes
The life and adventures of Mr. Francis Clive. In two volumes. …
1764 Richard Griffith
The triumvirate: or, the authentic memoirs of A. B. and C.
In two volumes, … 1765 Pierre Carlet
de Chamblain de Marivaux
The virtuous orphan; or the life, misfortunes, and
adventures, of Indiana. Written by herself. In two volumes.
1773 The prudential lovers, or the history of Harry Harper. In two volumes. …
1774 Hugh Kelly The school for wives. A comedy. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Embellished with an etching, by Mr Loutherbourg
1775 N (Nathan) Bailey
The new universal etymological English dictionary:
Containing An Additional Collection of Words, with their Explications and Etymologies from the …
1775 The fortune-Hunter: or, the Gamester Reclaim’d. A play.
With an entertainment of the millennium. Representing Paradise lost: or, the fall of man.
1775 A True explanation of the vices of the age; Wherein is contained the roguery of those pluck’em in landlords and quack doctors; also the tricks of …
1776 James Beattie Essays. On poetry and music, as they affect the Mind. On laughter, and Ludicrous Composition. On the utility of classical learning. By James …
1776 William Tans’ur the younger
The beauties of poetry: or, a portable repository of English verse, on an entire new plan. In three books. Grammar display’d, Classes of Rhymes: …
1781 The belle’s stratagem: a comedy. As it is acted by his Majesty’s servants, with universal applause.
1781 The life of Patrick Madan; Exhibiting a Series of the most extraordinary Transactions, notorious Villanies, and wonderful Escapes, that ever…
1783 Siberian anecdotes, a novel. In two volumes. Containing real histories and living characters.
1785 Francis Grose A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue
1788 Daniel Defoe Fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, Who was born in Newgate: and, during a life of continued variety for threescore years, …
1790 William Shakespeare
The plays and poems of William Shakespeare, in ten
volumes; collated verbatim with the most authentick copies, and revised: with the correction …
1791 Jack Sprit-Sail’s frolic; or, sailor’s humourous cruise; in the latitude of London. … To which is added Jack Sprit-Sail’s flowing can, being a …
1792 Colley Cibber The refusal; or, the ladies’ philosophy. A comedy. By Colley Cibber, Esq. Adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the …
1795 Humphry Tristram Potter
A new dictionary of all the cant and flash languages, both ancient and modern; used by gipsies, beggars, swindlers, shoplifters, … Dedicated to …