F. and C. Rivington (Firm)

Overview

Works:	222 works in 243 publications in 1 language and 672 library holdings
Genres:	Juvenile works Fiction History Illustrations Controversial literature Portraits Legends Fables Biography Poetry
Roles:	Publisher, Printer, Bookseller
Classifications:	AC4, 398.2

Publication Timeline

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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 138 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 )
2 editions published in 1808 in English and held by 40 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 ( Book )
1 edition published in 1805 in English and held by 31 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 by Vicesimus Knox ( Book )
4 editions published between 1801 and 1803 in English and held by 28 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 24 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 1809 in English and held by 18 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 )
2 editions published in 1808 in English and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fables of Æsop by Aesop ( )
2 editions published in 1805 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Adaptations of eighty-two of Aesop's best known fables. Includes a brief history of the fables

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 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

Two letters addressed to a member of the present Parliament on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France. By the Right Hon. Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke ( Book )
3 editions published in 1796 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

The works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson ( Book )
2 editions published between 1810 and 1811 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. Table of ContentsThe Adventurer and Idler 1753-54; 1758-60A Grammar of the English TongueA Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 1775Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope 1779-81Lives of the English Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley 1779-81Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, Swift 1779-81Lives of the Poets: Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray etc

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

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 and entertaining pieces of poetry selected for the improvement of young persons by Vicesimus Knox ( Book )
1 edition published in 1809 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

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