traveller well knows the importance of a road-book and direction posts; the mariner is equally sensible of the value of charts and beacons; and the youthful and ardent literary husbandman, on entering the immeasurable £elds of knowledge, will soon learn from the assurances of the veteran labourer, as well as from his own experience, that his progress will be painful, his success uncertain, without the assistance which, the Editor humbly hopes, these volumes will supply.

The little that remains to be said is an acknowledgment, the sincerity of which must supply its deficiency in expression, of the Editor's gratitude to the numerous friends by whose kind assistance and advice his labours have been at once cheered and benefited; more particularly

To the Right Honourable THOMAS GRENVILLE, who is no less the master of the contents, than of the property of his books, and who, in the most obliging manner, tendered him the use of his splendid library, as well as of his interesting catalogues, with which, it may be hoped, he may be induced to favour the public.

In common with most persons interested in literary pursuits, the Editor is under many obligations to PHILIP AUGUSTUS HANROTT, Esq., to whose late curious and extensive library liberal access was always afforded him.

To Messrs. PAYNE and Foss, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. PICKERING, and especially Mr, RODD, for their constant advice and most useful suggestions, he is eminently obliged.

To Mr. R. H. EVANS he is particularly indebted for many valuable hints, and for the loan of the sale catalogues of the numerous important libraries which have passed through his hands, which exhibit a profound knowledge of his profession.-To Messrs. SOTHEBY he begs to return his thanks for access to their extensive series of catalogues.

Gratitude demands a strong acknowledgment to the late WILLIAM MEREDITH, Esq., under whose hospitable roof this Manual was commenced in the year 1820. By the late RICHARD HEBER, Esq., (who, as a collector, united the judgment of a Cotton with the princely munificence of a Harley,) he was honoured with approbation and encouragement, and with the offer of access to his immense literary treasures.

W. T. L.

William. Works. Lond. 1649. 4to. 3 vols. 15s.

The author was an eminent non-conformist divine and rigid calvinist. [New edition, of the Works many now first collected, with memoirs, Lond. 1845, 8vo. 5 vols. portrait, 17. 11s. 6d.]

Bridges likewise published a Sermon on Sic Deus dilexit muudum, &c. John 3. (16) 1571, 4to.

John, and the Rev. Peter Whalley. History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire. Oxford, 1791. folio. 2 vols.

Vol. 1. Title, Preface, 6 pp. History, A-7 Q, 610 pp. and 11 plates. Vol. II. Title, History continued, Indexes, Contents, and Directions to the Binder, 672 pp. List of Subscribers, 2 pp. and 27 plates. In some copies of vol. 2 there is duplicate plate 6, South-west View of the Parish Church of Ecton,' and plate 12, Lilford, the seat of Thomas Powis, Esq.' is erroneously placed at 241 of vol. i. instead of vol. ii. sometimes Faden's four-sheet map of Northamptonshire, 1779, is added, but forms no actual part of the book.] Beckford in 1817,97, uncut, 71. 7s. Bindley, pt. i. 379, 87. 8s. Alchorne, 93, 87. 10s. Nassau, pt. i. 662, russia, 97. Dent, pt. i. 485, russia, 91. 5s. Marq. of Townshend, 431, 107. 5s. Heath,

Matthew. Roman Empire under Constantine the Great. Lond. 1828. 8vo. pp. 467.

BRIDGEN, R. Antiquities of Sef-4677, 177. 17s. ton Church, near Liverpool. Lond. 1822. fol. with 33 plates. 17. 15s. Interior Decorations of Sefton Church, Lancashire. Lond. folio, 17. 1s.

Designs for Grecian and other Furniture, Candelabra and Interior Decorations, (published in conjunction with H. Shaw), with 60 plates. Lond. 1838, royal 4to. 17. 11s. 6d. LARGE PAPER, imp. 4to. coloured plates, 37. 3s.

BRIDGES, Rev. Charles. Exposition of Psalm CXIX. Lond. 1827, 12mo. 1849. 7s.

John, Bishop of Oxford. Supremacie of Christian Princes, ouer all Persons throughout their Dominions, in all Causes so well ecclesiastical as temporall. Lond. 1573.

4to. 15s.

Pp. 1114, and a list of faults, besides de

Of this work seven copies were struck off on LARGE Paper.

Noah. Vulgar Arithmetique. Lond. (1653). 12mo.

Prefixed is a portrait, with four English verses by G(eorge) W(ither), engraved by Faithorne. The Portrait re-engraved as Milton, for Duroveray's edition.

Bridges likewise published 'Stenographie and Cryptographie,' 1659, 12mo. with a portrait by Loggan, 10s. 6d. Lux Merca

toria: Arithmetick natural and decimal.' 1661, 8vo.

BRIDGET, St. (of Sweden). Liber Revelationum celestiu dne Birgitte de Swecia. Lubec. 1492. folio.

First edition, according to Nicolson, of which there is a copy in the British Mu

seum. Reprinted Nuremb. 1517.-Nuremb. | from Mich. 1660 to Trin. 1667, 1521. Towneley, pt. ii. 1349, 19s. 6d. edited from the Hargrave MSS. by Rom. 1556, and also at Antwerp, &c.

Lond. 1823. royal

Richard Whalley. Analytical

BRIDGET, St. (of Ireland). Brigida S. Bannister. Thaumaturga, sive Dissertatio enco- 8vo. 10s. miastica in Laudem ipsius Sanctæ : partim archaica ex sacra et antiqua Digest of the reported Cases in the Historia Ecclesiastica: partim etiam Courts of Equity and high Court of parenæetica ad Alumnos Collegiorum. Parliament from the earliest authenParis. 1620. 8vo. 51. 5s. tic Period. Third Edition. Lond. (1822-32. roy. 8vo. 5 vols. 47. 14s. 6d. The first edition, 1805-7. 3 vols. 17. 11s. 6d. Second edition, 1813, 3 vols. 27. 12s. 6d. A Supplement by J. Flather, 1822, royal 8vo. Digest of the reported Cases on Points of Practice and pleading in Equity. 1824, roy. 8vo. 17. 4s.

A copy of this work relative to the Irish Saint S. Bridget, is in the British Museum. 'The main of this book consists of digressions, recounting the many correspondencies and long intercourses that have been betwixt France and Ireland, in matters of religion and learning.'-Nicolson. The author, D. R. is supposed to be Donat Rourcke (David Rooth, Bp. of Ossory).

For another piece of Biography, see PATRICK, St.

The Lyfe of Seynt Birgette. Lond. R. Pynson, 1516. 4to.

A copy is in the British Museum. Wilks, 1847 (wantingtitle and 2 leaves, Table), 107.

Certain Reuelations of Saynt Briget, with an Epistle of Saynt Bernarde, called the Golden Epistle. Lond. Thomas Godfrey. 8vo.

Inglis, 843. An edition of The four Revelations of St. Bridget, by Richard Whytforde. Lond. 1531, 12mo. See Tanner's Bibl. Brit. 765.

The most devout Prayers of St. Brigitte touching the most holy Passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ. Antw. 1659. 12mo. 6s.

BRIDGEWATER TREATISES.

Mr. R. W. Bridgman has likewise published Thesaurus Juridicus. 1798, 1800, 1806. royal 8vo. 2 vols. 17. 1s. Reflections on the Study of the Law. 1804. 8vo. 4s. 6d. Short View of Legal Bibliography. 1807. 8vo. 6s. A Synthesis of the Law of Nisi Prius. 1809. 8vo. Part I.

William. Translations from the Greek, viz. Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues and Vices, the Similitudes of Demophilus, the golden Sentences of Democrates, and the Pythagoric Symbols, with the Explanations of Iamblichus. To which are added, the Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus, by Thomas Taylor.

Lond. 1804. crown 8vo. 5s.

translation of Andronicus Rhodius.
W. Bridgman likewise published a
BRIDGWATER, Benjamin. Reli-
See gio Bibliopola, or the religion of a
Bookseller. Lond. 1691. 8vo.

Reports

Lond.

These reports embrace so short a period that they are seldom referred to.

John. Sketch of Knole, in Kent; with a brief Genealogy of the Sackville Family. Lond. 1817. 8vo. Pp. 172, and a slip of errata, with nine plates. A former edition appeared 1797, 8vo. with 6 plates.

Sir Orlando. Conveyances. Fifth Edition. Lond. 1725. folio, 2 parts. 12s.

Best edition of a work of authority, with port. by Vander Gucht.

Reports of Judgments in C. P.

Written in imitation of Sir.Thos. Brown's

Religio Medici, and usually attributed to John Dunton. Nassau, pt. i. 323, 3s. Con stable, 76, 3s.

John. Concertatio Ecclesiæ Catholicæ in Anglia adversus Calvino-Papistas et Puritanos sub Elizabetha

Hominum Doctrina et Sanctitate Regina, quorundam illustrium renovata et recognita; &c. Augusta Trevirorum. 1588. 4to. 1594. 4to. 3 parts in 1 vol. 37. 3s.

Best edition, with numerous additions, and a preface, to which Bridgwater subscribes himself Joh. Aquæpontanus. The first edition, which was written by Joli. Gibbon, a Jesuit, and John Fenn, appeared Aug. Trev. 1583, 8vo. 17. 1s. A life of

Bridgwater will be found in Wood's Ath. | Book of Actes and Monuments.
Oxon.
1589. 4to.

BRIEGERUS, Julius. Flores Cal- BRIGHTMAN, Thomas. Predicvinistici decerpti ex Vita Roberti tions and Prophecies written 46 Dvdlei, Comitis Leicestriae in Anglia, years since concerning the three &c. pro Elizabetha Angliæ Regina Churches of Germanie, England, Gubernatoris. Neapoli, 1585. 8vo. and Scotland. 1641. 4to. 5s.

BRIGGS, Henry. Arithmetica Lo-puritan divine will be found in the British garithmica. Lond. 1624. folio.