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De La Roche has preserved, render these volumes higldy 

 valuable. 



XIX. 1717. " BiBLiOTHEQUE Ancloise, ou Histolie 

 Literaire de la Grande Bretagne, par M. D. L. R. — Amsterdam, 

 1717— 17 19," in small 24mo., (M.D. L.R. meaning Michael 

 De La Roche.) This work wab printed in Holland, and is com- 

 plete in fifteen volumes. The editor printed two half-volumes 

 a-year ; the first volume was published at Amsterdam in 1717, 

 in the French language, and consists of 544 pages, besides two 

 Tables of Contents. The fifth and last volume by La Roche, 

 was printed in 1719. At this time his Dutch publisher aban- 

 doned him, and chose a new editor of the name of Armand de 

 la Chapelle, who edited ten volumes more, and of whom 

 nothing appears to be known. In consequence of this, Michael 

 de la Roche was under the necessity of publishing his labours 

 under a new title. From this time, therefore, he gave his 

 papers to the world under the title of " Memoires Literalres 

 de la Grand Bretagne." The new bookseller whom La Chapelle 

 employed, afterwards commenced another similar work which 

 he published under the title of " Bibliotheque Britannique," in 

 25 vols. 12mo. from the year 1733—1747. 



XX. 1720. " Memoires Literaires de la Grande 

 Bretagne, par Michael de la Roche, Auteur des cinque pre- 

 miers tomes de la Bibliotheque Angloise." 24mo. 



Mons. de la Roche continued to publish this small work 

 under the above title for five years, making sixteen parts in the 

 whole, which he calls volumes. These are, however, usually 

 bound two volumes together, like the Bibliotheque Angloise ; 

 two of these volumes, or four parts, making a year together. 

 The whole is neatly and uniformly printed, and for the conve- 

 nience of their being bound two volumes in one, the two vo- 

 lumes are paged, one after the other, in one regular series of 

 progressive numbers. That this work is complete in 16 volumes 

 is evident from the last volume being marked, " Fin du XVI., 

 ct dernier Volume." 



