"4to" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... History of Croyland and Wyrcester, attribute his discontent to the marriages and honours granted to the Wydeviles, and the marriage of the princess Margaret with the Duke of Burgundy."—LINGARD, vol. iii. c. 24, pp. 5, 19, 4to ed.] And, indeed, it is a matter of wonder that so many of our chroniclers could have gravely admitted a legend contradicted by all the subsequent conduct of Warwick himself; for we find the earl specially doing honour to the publication of Edward's marriage, standing godfather to his first-born ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... Dante's Inferno, with 76 full-page illustrations by Dore. 4to, gilt top, binding soiled, but otherwise good copy. 42s. ...
— In the Heart of the Vosges - And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" • Matilda Betham-Edwards
... Ancients."—Who was the author of a thin 4to. book entitled The Liturgy of the Ancients represented, as near as may be, in English Forms, &c., "London, printed for the Authour, 1696." He added to it "A Proposal of ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853 • Various
... work, a "very scarce book" in his time, and we have been at some pains to obtain the reprint, (London, 1685,) appended to Holwell's Clavis Horologiae; or Key to the whole art of Arithmetical Dialling, small 4to. 1712.[3] ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, - Issue 400, November 21, 1829 • Various
... inscription we possess dates from the time of Domitian. It has been published by M. OPPERT, Melanges d'Archeologie egyptienne et assyrienne, vol. i. p. 23 (Vieweg, 1873, 4to.). Some very long ones, from the time of the Seleucidae and the ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot
... the Basis of the Object Method of Instruction. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings and Pictorial Maps. By Fordyce A. Allen, Principal of the Chester-County Normal School, West Chester, Pa. Philadelphia. Lippincott & Co. 4to. pp. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various
... There are some curious, and perhaps anomalous facts, concerning the history of Fairies, in a sort of Cock-lane narrative, contained in a letter from Moses Pitt, to Dr Edward Fowler, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, printed at London in 1696, and preserved in Morgan's Phoenix Britannicus, 4to, ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... manuscript of Burton's translation is now in the possession of M. Charles Carrington, the Paris publisher, who is arranging for its completion by a competent hand. The portions due to Burton will, of course, be indicated. These consist of "The Author's Intent," about two pages small 4to; nearly all the story of Cupid and Psyche; and fragments of Books 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
... to Spenser) was printed in The Phoenix' Nest, 4to, 1593, where it is anonymous. Todd has shown that it was written by ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... its wine, is on the Volscian hills (the Monti Lepini), and on the eastern margin of the marshes. The physical condition of this tract is described by Prony, in his "Description Hydrographique et Historique des Marais Pontins," 4to. Paris, 1822; the work is accompanied by a volume of plans and sections and a map of the district. A sketch of the physical character of this district, and of the various attempts to drain it, is also given in the 'Penny Cyclopaedia,'—art. ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch
... Miseries of Inforst Mariage. As it is now playd by his Maiesties Servants. Qui alios (seipsum) docet. By George Wilkins. London. Printed for George Vincent, and are to be sold at his shop in Woodstreete. 1607, 4to. ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various
... Abbes de Saint-Ouen, publiee d'apres un MS. de la Bibliotheque du Roi, par Francisque Michel, 4to, with a view of the abbey. ...
— Rouen, It's History and Monuments - A Guide to Strangers • Theodore Licquet
... Dumbarton. Lastly, Septimius Severus caused a wall of stone to be built parallel to the rampart of Hadrian, and on the same locality. See John Warburton's Vallum Romanum, or the History and Antiquities of the Roman Wall. London, 1754, 4to.—W. See likewise a good note on the Roman wall in Lingard's History of England, vol. ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... for making these inquiries is, that I have in my possession a 4to. manuscript volume, believed to be in the handwriting of this Sir George Buc, which is quite at variance with these statements in several particulars. The volume which is without a date in any part, and has ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 • Various |
