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Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative
Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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. A translation of La Sccchia Rapita,or the Rape of the Bucket, an heroi-comic poem, in twelve cantos, from theItalian of Alessandro Tassoni, with noteshy James Atkinson, Esq. is in the press,and will he comprised in two duodecimovolumes. In the press, and speedily will be pub-lished, Earlj/ Metrical Tales; includingthe History of Sir Egeir, Sir Gryine, amiSir Gray Steil. Early in January will be published,The Prospect, and other poems, in onevolume foolscap 8vo. The Rev. J. H. Home is preparing anew edition of Deism Refuted, or PlainReasons for being a Christian, which isan analysis of the first volume of his Introduction to the Critical Study ofthe Scriptures. The work will form acompendious yet full summary of theevidences of the Christian Revelation;and be enlarged with a new chapter onthe incredulity of unbelief, adapted tothe perpetually varying assaults of infi-delity. A work, entitled Greece in 182.5, beingthe journals of James Emerson, Esq.Count Pecchio, and \V. H. Humphreys,
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INTELLIGENCE, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, &C. 01 Esq. written during their recent visitsto that country, and exhibiting a pictureof its present political condition, state ofsociety, manners, resources, &c willspeedily appear in small 8vo. with a por-trait of the Greek Admiral Miaulis. Mrs. Shelly, the author of Franken-stein, is engaged on a romance in 3 vols,with the title of The Last Man. Mr. Alaric A. Watts has announced anew volume, under the title of Lyrics ofthe Heart, and other Poems. A Memoir of the Court of Henry VIII.including an account of the monastic in-stitutions in England at that period, is inthe press. Shortly may be expected, in one vo-lume post 8vo. The English Gentleman sLiterary Manual, or a Guide to theChoice of Useful Modern Books in Bri-tish and Foreign Literature; with bio-graphical, critical, and literary notices,by William Goodhugh. Mrs. Bray, late Mrs. Charles Stot-hard, author of A Tour in Normandy,Brittany, &c. has in the press, an histo-rical roman

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