"Diu est quod, et parentum cura, et meapte diligentia, libris insuevi. Hæc me voluptas jam inde a pueritia cepit; hæc illecebra mecum parilibus adolevit annis." WILLIAM OF Malmesbury. LONDON: PRINTED BY THOMAS RICHARDS, FOR THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE C. RICHARDS, 100, ST. MARTIN'S LANE. MDCCCXLIII. ADVERTISEMENT. ON the publication of his CATALOGUE OF FOREIGN THEOLOGY in the year 1842, the publisher was requested by many of his kindest friends to print a second volume, containing a list of ENGLISH DIVINITY. On attempting to meet this often-repeated wish, the compiler found it would scarcely require more time to give a complete account of the ENTIRE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH BOOKS, than it would take to separate one class from the stock. The result is the present Catalogue, containing 13,420 articles, embracing the most complete list of English Literature ever offered for sale. In collecting the works of standard authors, the chief aim has been to render prominent the Classes of THEOLOGY; HISTORY, VOYAGES AND TRAVELS; TOPOGRAPHY; AND BELLES LETTRES; and in these there are few authors entitled to notice, whose writings will not be found in the ensuing pages. The best SCIENTIFIC WORKS are also constantly kept on sale; and, as it would be little less than a species of "monomania" to pretend to possess every work ever published, the Proprietor will use his best exertions to obtain any book not contained in his own stock, should he be |