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(Marked by hand ‘Mrs Deane’.)

(Bill printed by J. Diggens, St Ann’s Lane, London. Engraving (by Rowlandson) published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand, 1 Apr. 1814, and captioned ‘Time & Death their Thoughts impart | On Works of Learning & of Art’.)

(Illustration engraved by Branston from a drawing by Thurston. All the works mentioned are printed by T. Bensley.)

(The other works advertised include editions of Thomas Hodson’s Accomplished Tutor, William Curtis’s Lectures on Botany, and Colin Milne’s Botanical Dictionary. Probably issued by H. D. Symonds, printer of the Natural History. The date, which is not stated, has been inferred from the publications mentioned.)

(Printed by J. Haddon, Tabernacle Walk. The printers of the book are W. Button and Son, Paternoster Row.)

The quotation, 'Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot / L'honnête homme trompe s'éloigne et ne dit mot" was identified by the Chief Librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale as being from, La Coquette Corrigée, a 1756 comedy by de la Noue. It was quoted, with identification in George Otto Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (1876).

It is agreed that the work shall be printed in two volumes in quarto on royal paper, with the prints used in the Spanish edition printed by A. B is to procure the copy of the translation at his own expense and A are to furnish the plates for this and any future quarto editions, the cost of print and paper being divided equally between them. If B is obliged to furnish Jervas with fifty sets of books he is to pay A £25 as well as the cost of the print and paper for them. The net profits in this and any future editions printed by A and B shall be equally divided, and if they print the book in any other size the costs of engraving the plates shall be equally borne and A shall allow Mr (John) Vanderbank’s designs to be used. The property of a moiety of the translation shall be vested by B in A, but the property of the original quarto plates, after being used, shall remain in A.

(Place of writing not indicated.)—Instructs them to send 1200 livres each by the hands of someone of their choice, who is to go to the main door of the church at Guêprei on 18 Feb., whence they will be conducted by six hussars to the place where the money is to be left. If the ransom is not paid Fluard will send two hundred armed men and sixty horsemen to raid their properties (i.e. those of Cordier and Le Lievre) on the 20th.

(Undated. Copied from a copy certified by Le Roy and sent to Lévêque with the original of f. 16. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

On part of an examination paper on Cicero. Information on most of the seniors added in MS notes beside the pasted-in sheet. 'The Master' is written, rather than Thompson's proper name.

Dated at Tonbridge and headed ‘(4.)’. Numbered 14.

'Tune - '" Derry Down"'. First line 'So you doubt whom to choose of our Candidates three...' Printed by R. Tibbutt, Printer, Haymarket.

Date added by Macaulay, who has also written 'Election Squib' above the title, and added footnotes explaining the ballad at the bottom, with his initials: '1. the borough of Leicester, 2. Mr [William] Evans and Mr O[tway] Cave, 3. Sir Charles [Abney] Hastings, 4. the Corporation'.

First line: ‘Oh! quis te furor aut malignus error’.

(At the foot is the following incomplete continuation of the title: ‘With Pious Entertainments for the Great FESTIVALLS, being an Exposition of the’.)

(Dated ‘Thursday | Morning Past a 11’. Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Roselinda’.)

(Each page is headed ‘Whittingham and Arliss’ Catalogue’. The books advertised are The London Theatre, by Thomas Dibdin (‘the first number … appeared on the 17th of September [1814]; and the publication will be regularly continued every Saturday’); The History of Rasselas, by Samuel Johnson; Maxims, Opinions, and Characters … from the Works of … Edmund Burke, 2nd ed.; The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel De Foe; A Narrative of the Voyages round the World performed by Captain James Cook, by Andrew Kippis; and Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, by Catharine Talbot.)

(Entirely typeset.)