F. and C. Rivington (Firm)
Overview
Works: | 324 works in 377 publications in 2 languages and 1,283 library holdings |
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Genres: | Fiction Juvenile works History Fantasy fiction Historical fiction Didactic fiction Allegories Satire Fables Criticism, interpretation, etc |
Roles: | Publisher, Book producer, Printer, Bookseller |
Classifications: | PR3529, 823.6 |
Publication Timeline
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Most widely held works by
F. and C. Rivington (Firm)
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(
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)
9 editions published between 1801 and 1809 in English and held by 80 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published between 1801 and 1809 in English and held by 80 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a noble lord : on the attacks made upon him and his pension, in the House
of lords, by the duke of Bedford and the earl of Lauderdale, early in the present sessions of Parliament by
Edmund Burke(
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)
1 edition published in 1796 in English and held by 55 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1796 in English and held by 55 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different
significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed a history of the language, and an English grammar by
Samuel Johnson(
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)
1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 50 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 50 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lex mercatoria rediviva, or, A complete code of commerial law : being a general guide to all men in business, whether as traders,
remitters, owners, freighters, captains, insurers, brokers, factors, supercargoes, or agents, with an account of our mercantile
companies, of our colonies and factories abroad, of our commercial treaties with foreign powers, of the duty of consuls, and
of the laws concerning aliens, naturalization, and denization : to which is added, a sketch of the present state of the commerce
of the whole world, describing the manufactures and products of each particular nation, with tables of the correspondence
and agreement of their respective coins, weights, and measures, compiled from the works of the most celebrated British and
foreign commercial writers, the whole equally calculated for the information and service of the merchant, lawyer, member of
Parliament, and private gentleman by
Wyndham Beawes(
Book
)
2 editions published in 1792 in English and held by 34 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1792 in English and held by 34 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
)
1 edition published in 1805 in English and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1805 in English and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Select collection of English songs : with their original airs: and a historical essay on the origin and progress of national
song by
Joseph Ritson(
Book
)
1 edition published in 1813 in English and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1813 in English and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The complete angler, or contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing: in two
parts ; the first written by Mr. Isaac Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, Esq ; With the lives of the authors, and notes
... By Sir John Hawkins, Knt by
Izaak Walton(
Book
)
1 edition published in 1797 in English and held by 28 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1797 in English and held by 28 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by
Samuel Johnson(
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)
1 edition published in 1801 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Johnson's adaptation of the popular oriental tale displays his usual wit and perceptiveness; sceptical and probing, his tale nevertheless suggests that wisdom and self-knowledge need not be entirely beyond reach. This new edition relates Rasselas to Johnson's life and thought and to politics, society, and the global context of the Seven Years War. --from publisher description
1 edition published in 1801 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Johnson's adaptation of the popular oriental tale displays his usual wit and perceptiveness; sceptical and probing, his tale nevertheless suggests that wisdom and self-knowledge need not be entirely beyond reach. This new edition relates Rasselas to Johnson's life and thought and to politics, society, and the global context of the Seven Years War. --from publisher description
The children's friend by
Berquin(
Book
)
2 editions published in 1793 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1793 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poems from the Arabic and Persian : with notes by
Walter Savage Landor(
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)
1 edition published in 1800 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1800 in English and held by 22 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 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1811 in English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations,
their food, œconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The
whole illustrated by coloured figures ... By E. Donovan by
E Donovan(
Book
)
in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The works of the author of The night-thoughts : in three volumes by
Edward Young(
Book
)
2 editions published in 1802 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1802 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A history of England, in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son. : to which are added, two letters on the study and
biography of the ancient and modern British historians by
Oliver Goldsmith(
Book
)
1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 12 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(
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2 editions published in 1808 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1808 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The natural history of British shells : including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great
Britain, systematically arranged in the Linnean manner, with scientific and general observations on each by
E Donovan(
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)
in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses by
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon(
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1 edition published in 1802 in English and held by 10 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
1 edition published in 1802 in English and held by 10 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
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(
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)
1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fables of Aesop and others by
Aesop(
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2 editions published in 1805 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1805 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The looking-glass for the mind; or, Intellectual mirror by
Berquin(
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5 editions published between 1793 and 1798 in English and French and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Thirty-six eighteenth-century stories in which virtue always triumphs over vice and hardship
5 editions published between 1793 and 1798 in English and French and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Thirty-six eighteenth-century stories in which virtue always triumphs over vice and hardship
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- Dilly, Charles 1739-1807
- Johnson, Joseph 1738-1809 Publisher
- Sewell, John 1733 or 1734-1802 Publisher Book producer
- Berquin M (Arnaud) 1747-1791 Author
- Stockdale, John 1749?-1814
- Murray, John 1737-1793
- Creech, William 1745-1815
- B. Law and Son
- Williams, Lucas Esq Translator
- Faulder, Robert 1747 or 1748-1815 Publisher
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Anger Apologetics Bedford, Francis Russell,--Duke of, Boys Brothers and sisters Charity Children's accidents Children's poetry Children's stories Children's stories, French Children--Conduct of life Christian life Conduct of life Deism Education of princes English fiction English literature English prose literature Episcopacy Ethiopia Fables Fables, Greek Fathers and sons Gambling Girls Great Britain Great Britain.--Parliament.--House of Lords Greece Happiness Johnson, Samuel, Kings and rulers Lauderdale, James Maitland,--Earl of, Mentally ill Moral education Muslims Nature stories Parent and child Physicians Politics and government Poor Pride and vanity Princes Satire Sex role Social classes Songs Sunday schools Telemachus (Greek mythology) Voyages and travels--Psychological aspects Youth--Conduct of life
Alternative Names
C. & F. Rivington (Firm)
Francis and Charles Rivington (Firm)
Messrs. Rivingtons (Firm)
Rivington, F. and C.
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