F. and C. Rivington (Firm)

Overview

Works:	323 works in 376 publications in 2 languages and 1,296 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Juvenile works Fantasy fiction Historical fiction Didactic fiction Allegories Poetry Satire Criticism, interpretation, etc Fables
Roles:	Publisher, Book producer, Printer, Bookseller
Classifications:	PR3529, 823.6

Publication Timeline

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( Book )

6 editions published between 1801 and 1809 in English and held by 70 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( Book )

1 edition published in 1796 in English and held by 54 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( Book )

1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 49 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 36 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

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

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 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson( Book )

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

The children's friend by Berquin( Book )

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( Book )

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

The works of the author of The night-thoughts : in three volumes by Edward Young( Book )

4 editions published between 1792 and 1802 in English and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. : together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens by E Donovan( Book )

in English and held by 13 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 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of England, in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son by Oliver Goldsmith( Book )

1 edition published in 1799 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( Book )

in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A short and easy 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 can possibly be, in a letter to a friend by Charles Leslie( Book )

1 edition published in 1799 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Fables of Aesop and others by Aesop( Book )

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( Book )

7 editions published between 1793 and 1804 in English and French and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thirty-six eighteenth-century stories in which virtue always triumphs over vice and hardship