EARL of ORFORD. From an Original Picture. Painted by Eckardt. Pub Feb 1.1807 by J.Scott 442. Strand. CATALOGUE OF THE Royal and Noble Authors OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND; WITH LISTS OF THEIR WORKS: BY THE LATE HORATIO WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. ENLARGED AND CONTINUED TO THE PRESENT TIME, BY THOMAS PARK, F. S. A. "These sheets are calculated for the closets of the idle and inquisitive; they do not VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOHN SCOTT, NO. 442, Strand. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION. RELYING more on the liberal attentions experienced from my literary friends, in editing Harington's Nuga Antiquæ, than on any presumed qualifications of my own, I undertook the arduous charge of preparing an extended edition of lord Orford's Royal and Noble Authors, which was to accompany a series of portraits suitably engraven for the decoration of such a work. The extent of assistance from private libra-. ries, communicated or proffered, having exceeded my previous expectations, an idea suggested itself, that I might, with advantage to the book, enlarge upon lord Orford's plan of giving a Catalogue only of titled authors, by adding short Specimens of their performances, somewhat after the manner of Cibber's Lives of the Poets. This task of critical delicacy I have been wishful to perform, with a view to the reader's profit as well as the writer's fame; not unaware that it may prove a thankless toil to cater for a multitude of palates: "since he who writes Or makes a feast, more certainly invites As lord Orford's Appendix to the posthumous edition of his Noble Authors, could not be transferred to the present, on account of purchased copyright; with the second impression printed for Dodsley I have little interfered, except by the correction of inadvertences, or the insertion of casual omissions; and except, that I have |