F. and C. Rivington (Firm)

Overview

Works:	218 works in 237 publications in 1 language and 635 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Juvenile works History Controversial literature Illustrations Poetry Legends Portraits Didactic fiction Fables
Roles:	Publisher, Printer, Bookseller
Classifications:	AC4, E

Publication Timeline

1770 |

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Publications about F. and C. Rivington (Firm)

Publications by F. and C. Rivington (Firm)

Most widely held works by F. and C. Rivington (Firm)

The children's friend by Berquin ( )
3 editions published in 1793 in English and held by 122 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elegant extracts, or, Useful and entertaining pieces of poetry : selected for the improvement of young persons ; being similar in design to Elegant extracts in prose by Vicesimus Knox ( Book )
3 editions published between 1805 and 1809 in English and held by 56 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elegant extracts, or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose : selected for the improvement of young persons ; being similar in design to Elegant extracts in poetry by Vicesimus Knox ( Book )
3 editions published between 1801 and 1808 in English and held by 47 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The works of Horace, : translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow; with the Latin text and order of construction in the opposite page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical, notes in English, from the best commentators both ancient and modern; and a preface to each poem, illustrating its difficulties, and showing its several ornaments and design: also the method of scanning the several sorts of verse used by Horace, and a table showing at one view of what sort of verse each ode consists; for the use of schools, as well as of private gentlemen by Horace ( Book )
2 editions published in 1811 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elegant extracts, or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose : selected for the improvement of young persons : being similar in design to Elegnt extracts in poetry ( Book )
1 edition published in 1803 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A dissertation on the propagation of Christianity in Asia. : In two parts. To which is prefixed, a brief historic view of the progress of the Gospel in different nations since its first promulgation ; illustrated by a chronological chart. by Hugh Pearson ( Book )
1 edition published in 1808 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The fables of Aesop by Aesop ( )
2 editions published in 1805 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of fables retold from Aesop, including "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The Ant and the Grasshopper," and "Androcles and the Lion."

The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon ( Book )
1 edition published in 1802 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Both in its original French and its many translations, The Adventures of Telemachus was one of the most popular and revered works of the eighteenth century. During that time, more than ten English prose and poetry versions appeared, including this masterful prose translation by Smollett. Known for his novels Roderick Random and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Smollett was also a gifted translator. The Adventures of Telemachus was his final translation, and is one of the finest versions of the work. Long a disputed title in the Smollett canon, it is fully restored to his credit by Leslie A. Chilton

Fabulous histories. Designed for the instruction of children, respecting their treatment of animals. By Mrs. Trimmer by Sarah Trimmer ( Book )
2 editions published between 1802 and 1808 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A family of robins have various encounters with people in the community

A list of books recommended to the younger clergy, and other students in divinity, within the diocese of Chester by William Cleaver ( Book )
1 edition published in 1808 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elegant epistles being a copious collection of familiar and amusing letters, selected for the improvement of young persons, and for general entertainment from Cicero, Pliny, Sydney, Bacon, Raleigh, Howel, Lady Russell, Clarendon, Temple, Locke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Swift, Addison, Steele ... [et al.] and many others : with an appendix, containing letters from Sevigny, Balzac, Maintenon, &c by Vicesimus Knox ( Book )
2 editions published in 1803 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A short and easie method with the deists wherein the certainty of the Christian religion is demonstrated, by infallible proof from four rules, which are incompatible to any imposture that ever yet has been, or that can possibly be : in a letter to a friend by Charles Leslie ( Book )
1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An easy introduction to the knowledge of nature and reading the Holy Scriptures. Adapted to the capacities of children. By Sarah Trimmer by Sarah Trimmer ( Book )
2 editions published between 1807 and 1813 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The meditations of a recluse chiefly on religious subjects. By John Brewster, M.A. Vicar of Stockton upon Tees, and Greatham, in the County of Durham by John Brewster ( Book )
1 edition published in 1800 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation. Being an Attempt to concentrate Into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of Science, Respecting that Interesting Though Mysterious Subject. To Elucidate The Proximate Cause, To Appretiate The Present Remedies, And To Point Out The Best Method Of Restoring Animation. By A. Fothergill, M.D.F.R.S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Honorary Member of the Medical Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Paris: Also of the Philosophical Societies of Manchester, Philadelphia, &c by A Fothergill ( Book )
1 edition published in 1795 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thoughts on marriage, and criminal conversation with some hints of appropriate means to check the progress of the latter; comprising remarks on the life, opinions, and example of the late Mrs. Wollstonecraft Godwin: respectfully addressed and inscribed to the Right Honorable Lord Kenyon, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. By a friend to social order by Friend to Social Order ( Book )
1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elegant extracts ; or, Useful & entertaining passages in prose : selected for the impropvement of young persons being similar in design to elegant extracts in poetry by Vicesimus Knox ( Book )
2 editions published in 1803 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The natural history of British birds : or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens by E Donovan ( Book )
1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lectures on the Epistles appointed for the service of the Church of England : on the days of Passion-Week, Easter-Even, and Easter-Sunday. by Daniel Sandford ( Book )
1 edition published in 1802 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The pantheon representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes ; in a short, plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue. Revised, corrected, amended, and illustrated with new copper cuts of the several deities. For the use of schools. By Andrew Tooke by François Pomey ( Book )
1 edition published in 1810 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide