Part 9 (1/2)

”3. Rickman (Thomas). An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders; Seventh Edition, with Considerable Additions, Chiefly Historical, by John Henry Parker.

Oxford, 1881. 8vo.”

Now, we may take the instance of a long t.i.tle, which needs curtailment:--

”The

English Expositor

Improv'd:

Being a Complete

Dictionary,

teaching

The Interpretation of the most Difficult Words, which are commonly made use of in our English Tongue.

First set forth by J. B., Doctor of Physick.

And now carefully Revised, Corrected, and abundantly Augmented, with a new and very large Addition of very useful and significant Words.

By R. Browne, Author of the

_English School Reform'd_.

There is also an Index of Common Words (alphabetically set) to direct the Reader or others more Learned, and of the same signification with them.

And likewise a short Nomenclator of the most celebrated Persons among the Ancients; with Variety of Memorable Things: Collected out of the best of History, Poetry, Philosophy, and Geography.

The Twelfth Edition.

London: Printed for W. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-noster-Row. 1719.

Where may be had the above-mention'd Spelling-Book, Ent.i.tuled, _The English School Reform'd_: Being a method very exact and easy both for the Teacher and Learner.”

This long t.i.tle may be reduced into the following form:--

”4. B[ullokar] (J[ohn]). The English Expositor Improv'd: Being a Complete Dictionary, teaching the Interpretation of the most Difficult Words, which are commonly made use of in our English Tongue.... Revised, Corrected, and ... Augmented ... by R. Browne, ... [with] an Index of Common Words ... and ... a short Nomenclator of the most Celebrated Persons among the Ancients, with Variety of Memorable Things.... 12th Edition.

London, 1719. 12mo.”

It may be said that all these t.i.tles are in English, and present few difficulties. I therefore add a Latin t.i.tle, prepared by my brother, the late Mr. B. R. Wheatley. The full t.i.tle is as follows:--

”Speculum Polytechnum Mathematic.u.m novum, tribus visionibus ill.u.s.tre quarum extat

Una Fundamentalis Aliquot

Numerorum Danielis et Apocalypseos naturae et proprietatis Consignatio Altera, usus Hactenus incognitus Instrumenti Danielis Speccelii, ad alt.i.tudinum, profunditatum, longitudinum, lat.i.tudinumque dimensiones, nec non Planimetricas delineationes accommodatio.

Postrema brevis ac luculenta s.e.xies Ac.u.minati Proportionum Circini quibus fructuose iste adhibeatur enarratio In Omnium Mathesin Adamantium Emolumentum prius Germanice aeditum Auth.o.r.e

Joanne Faulhabero Arithmetico et Logista Ulmensi ingeniosissimo Posterius vero ne tanto aliae nationes defraudentur bono, Latine conversum per