Publications of James Dodsley

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Printed by James Dodsley

  • Chandler, Richard. Travels in Asia Minor: or an account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti. By Richard Chandler, D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, and of the society of Antiquaries. Oxford: printed at the Clarendon press. M.DCC.LXX.V. Sold by J. Dodsley, J. Robson, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, and G. Robinson, London, and by D. Prince, Oxford, [1775]. ESTC No. T51597. Grub Street ID 278817.
  • Burke, Edmund. The history of American taxation, from the year 1763, to the end of last session. In which is introduced, an account of the official abilities of the following ministers, ... Charles Townshend; ... Mr. Grenville; Lord Rockingham; and Lord Chatham. ... By Edmund Burke, ... [Dublin]: London: printed by J. Dodsley: and, Dublin: re-printed for John Exshaw, and E. Lynch, 1775. ESTC No. N17528. Grub Street ID 6997.
  • Thomas, M. An account of the character, the manners, and the understanding, of women, indifferent ages, and different parts of the world. Translated from the French of Mons. Thomas, by Mr. Kindersley. London: Printed by J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, 1800. ESTC No. N43403. Grub Street ID 29184.

Sold by James Dodsley

  • Lowth, Robert. A letter to the Right Reverend author of The divine legation of Moses demonstrated; in answer to the appendix to the fifth volume of that work. With an appendix, containing a former literary correspondence. By a late professor in the University of Oxford. Oxford: printed, at the Clarendon Printing-House; and sold by A. Millar and J. Dodsley, in London, MDCCLXV. [1765]. ESTC No. T38438. Grub Street ID 267914.

Printed for James Dodsley

  • Lockman, John. An ode on the birth-day of His Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales. 4th June, 1760. By John Lockman. Secretary to the Society of the Free British Fishery. Presented to His Royal Highness at Savile-House. London: Printed for Mess. Dodsley, at Tully's Head, in Pallmall; and sold by M. Cooper, in Pater-Noster Row, [1760]. ESTC No. N10528. Grub Street ID 538.
  • Pliny, the Younger. The letters of Pliny the Consul: with occasional remarks. By William Melmoth, Esq. The fifth edition, corrected. ... London: printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, MDCCLXIII. [1763]. ESTC No. T121644. Grub Street ID 172402.
  • Lowth, Robert. A letter to the right reverend author of The divine legation of Moses demonstrated; in answer to the appendix to the fifth volume of that work: with an appendix, containing a former literary correspondence: by a late professor in the University of Oxford. The fourth edition. To which is added, a letter to the Reverend Doctor Brown. London: printed for A. Millar, and J. Dodsley, MDCCLXVI. [1766]. ESTC No. N20398. Grub Street ID 9796.
  • Lowth, Robert. A letter to the Right Reverend author of The divine legation of Moses demonstrated; in answer to the appendix to the fifth volume of that work: with an appendix, containing a former literary correspondence: by a late professor in the University of Oxford. The second edition.. London: printed for A. Millar, and J. Dodsley, 1766. ESTC No. N68327. Grub Street ID 49752.
  • Lowth, Robert. A letter to the Right Reverend author of The divine legation of Moses demonstrated; in answer to the appendix to the fifth volume of that work: with an appendix, containing a former literary correspondence: by a late professor in the University of Oxford. The second edition.. London: printed for A. Millar, and J. Dodsley, MDCCLXVI. [1766]. ESTC No. T38431. Grub Street ID 267907.
  • Lowth, Robert. A letter to the Right Reverend author of The divine legation of Moses demonstrated; in answer to the appendix to the fifth volume of that work: with an appendix, containing a former literary correspondence: by a late professor in the University of Oxford. The third edition.. London: printed for A. Millar, and J. Dodsley, MDCCLXVI. [1766]. ESTC No. T38440. Grub Street ID 267915.
  • Lowth, Robert. A letter to the Right Reverend author of The divine legation of Moses demonstrated; in answer to the appendix to the fifth volume of that work: with an appendix, containing a former literary correspondence: By a late professor in the University of Oxford. The fourth edition. To which is added, a letter to the Reverend Doctor Brown.. London: Printed for A. Millar, and J. Dodsley, MDCCLXVI. [1766]. ESTC No. T38441. Grub Street ID 267916.
  • Percy, Thomas. Four essays, as improved and enlarged in the second edition of The reliques of ancient English poetry. . London: printed for J. Dodsley], 1767. ESTC No. T83746. Grub Street ID 304159.
  • Priestley, Joseph. Additions to The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments. By Joseph Priestley, . London: printed for J. Dodsley; J. Johnson and J. Payne; and T. Cadell, 1769. ESTC No. N16054. Grub Street ID 5752.
  • Coventry, Francis. The history of Pompey the little, or the life and adventures of a lap-dog. The fifth edition.. London: printed for I. Dodsley, 1773. ESTC No. T231007. Grub Street ID 250408.
  • Coventry, Francis. The history of Pompey the little, or the life and adventures of a lap-dog. The fifth edition.. London: printed for I. Dodsley in Pallmall, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. T73530. Grub Street ID 296790.
  • Lyttelton, George, 1st Baron Lyttelton. Observations on the conversion and apostleship of St. Paul. In a letter to Gilbert West, Esq;. A new edition.. London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]. ESTC No. N10126. Grub Street ID 137.
  • Pindar. The pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian odes of Pindar, translated into English verse; with critical and explanatory remarks: to which are prefix'd Observations on his life and writings; Conjectures on the æra wherein the Grecian games concluded; and an Ode to the genius of Pindar. London: printed for James Dodsley, Pall-Mall, by T. Spilsbury, Snow-Hill, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]. ESTC No. T148777. Grub Street ID 194912.
  • Lowth, Robert. Isaiah. A new translation; with a preliminary dissertation, and notes critical, philological, and explanatory. By Robert Lowth, D. D. F. R. SS. Lond. And Goetting. Lord Bishop of London. London: printed by J. Nichols; for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, and T. Cadell in the Strand, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]. ESTC No. T144005. Grub Street ID 359293.
  • Le Dran, Henri-François. The operations in surgery of Mons. Le Dran, Senior Surgeon of the Hospital of La Charite, Consultant Surgeon to the Army, Member of the Academy of Surgery at Paris, and Fellow of the Royal Society at London. Translated by Mr. Gataker, surgeon. With remarks, plates of the operations, and a sett of instruments, by Mr. Cheselden, Surgeon to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, and Member of the Academy of Surgery at Paris. The fifth edition.. London: printed for J. Dodsley and B. Law, M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]. ESTC No. N10666. Grub Street ID 673.
  • Smith, Charlotte. Elegiac sonnets, and other essays. By Charlotte Smith, . London: printed for J Dodsley, 1784. ESTC No. T32495. Grub Street ID 263194.
  • Milton, John. Poems upon several occasions, English, Italian, and Latin, with translations, by John Milton. Viz. Lycidas, l'allegro, il penseroso, arcades, comus, odes, sonnets, miscellanies, english psalms, elegiarum liber, epigrammatum liber, sylvarum liber. With notes critical and explanatory, and other illustrations, by Thomas Warton, Fellow Of Trinity College And Late Professor Of Poetry At Oxford. London: printed for James Dodsley in Pall Mall, MDCCLXXXV. [1785]. ESTC No. T134607. Grub Street ID 183230.
  • Pliny, the Younger. The letters of Pliny the Consul: with occasional remarks. By William Melmoth, Esq ;. The eighth edition, revised and corrected. ... London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, MDCC.LXXXVI. [1786]. ESTC No. T121640. Grub Street ID 172399.
  • Cheselden, William. The anatomy of the human body. By W. Cheselden, Surgeon to his Majesty's Royal Hospital at Chelsea Fellow of the Royal Society And Member of The Royal Academy of Surgeons at Parts. The XIIIth edition with forty copper plates engrav'd by Ger: Vandergucht.. London: printed for J. Dodsley. T. Cadell. R. Baldwin. T. Lowndes. S. Hayes. J. Anderson. J. Deighton, 1792. ESTC No. T127312. Grub Street ID 177045.
  • Pliny, the Younger. The letters of Pliny the Consul: with occasional remarks. By William Melmoth, Esq;. The ninth edition, revised and corrected. ... London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]. ESTC No. T121641. Grub Street ID 172400.