V
Vacation tourists
See Galton, F.
Vachell, Horace A.
Dew of the sea, and other stories 1927
The hill, a romance of friendship 1905
John Charity. A romance of yesterday 1900
Virgin 1929
Vacher, Francis
On the transmission of disease by milk 1882
Vaile, Pembroke Arnold
Modern golf 1909
Vaizey, George De Horne
Tangled web 1974
Vaizey, Jessie
A college girl 1913
More about Pixie 1904
Valdesso’s Considerations (1638)
See Ferrar, N.
Valentia, George Annesley, 9th Viscount
Voyages and travels to India, etc. 1802–06 1809
Valentine, Henry
Foure sea-sermons 1635
Valentine, Thomas
A dictionary of terms used in music 1824 (1833)
Valentinus’ (B.) Of natural and supernatural things tr. by Dan. Cable 1670
Valiant Welshman 1615
See Armin, R.
Vallancey, Charles
Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis 1770–1804
Memoir of the language, manners and customs of an Anglo-Saxon colony settled in the Baronies of Forth and Bargie (with a vocabulary of the language) 1788 (in Trans. R. Irish Academy, II, 1788)
Vallans, William
The honourable prentice (anon.) a 1590 (1615)
Vámbéry’s (H.) Travels in Central Asia tr. 1864
Van Beneden, P. J.
See Beneden, P. J. van
Vanbrugh, Sir John
Works a 1726 (1734, 1840, 1893)
Æsop (anon.) 1697
The confederacy (anon.) 1705
The false friend (anon.) 1702
The mistake (anon.) 1706
The pilgrim 1700
The provok’d wife 1697
The relapse, or virtue in danger 1697
—— & Cibber, Colley
The provk’d husband, or, a journey to London 1728
Van Buren, William H. & Keyes, Edward L.
A practical treatise on the surgical diseases of the genito-urinary organs 1874
Vance, John Holbrook
The deadly isles 1969 (UK 1970)
Vance, Louis Joseph
Baroque 1923
Cynthia-of-the-minute 1911
The destroying angel 1912 (UK 1913)
Vancouver, Charles
General view of the agriculture in the county of Cambridge 1794
General view of the agriculture of the county of Devon 1808 (1813)
General view of the agriculture of the county of Essex 1795
General view of the agriculture of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight 1813
Vancouver Province 1898–
Vancouver Sun (title varies) 1888–
‘Vanderdecken’ (W. Cooper)
The yacht sailor; a treatise on practical yachtsmanship, cruising and racing 1862
Yachts and yachting 1873
Van der Post, Laurens Jan
The heart of the hunter 1961
The lost world of the Kalahari 1958
A story like the wind 1972
Vanderstraeten’s (F.) Improved agriculture tr. 1816
Van Deventer, C. N.
An introduction to general aeronautics 1965
Van de Wetering, Janwillem
The corpse on the dike 1976 (UK 1977)
Tumbleweed 1976
Vane’s (Sir Harry) politicks, or his cases of conscience, lately found in his cabinet at Arabie 1661
Van Hare, G.
Fifty years of a showman’s life, or the life and travels of Van Hare by himself 1888
Vanity fair (New York) 1914–36
Vanity of the life of man, The 1688
See Burton, Richard
Vanity of scoffing, The 1674
See Ellis, C.
Van Nostrand’s scientific encyclopedia 1938
—(ed. 3) 1958
Van Oosten, Henrik
The Dutch gardener; or, The compleat florist [anon. tr.] 1703
Van Oosterzee’s (J. J.) Christian dogmatics tr. 1874
See Watson, John W.
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. M. King
The devil’s picture-books: a history of playing-cards 1890 (1892)
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler
English cathedrals 1892
Vansittart, Henry
A narrative of the transactions in Bengal 1760–64 1766
Van Sterkenburg, P. G. J., et al.
eds. Lexicologie: een bundel opstellen voor F. de Tollenaere 1977
Van Thal, Herbert Maurice
ed. Fanfare for Ernest Newman 1955
Van Tyne, Josselyn & Berger, Andrew John
Fundamentals of ornithology 1959
Van Vechten, Carl
Nigger heaven 1926
Varaday, Desmond
Gara-Yaka: the story of a cheetah 1964
Gara-Yaka’s domain 1966
Variety 1905–
Vattel’s (E. de) Law of nations tr. 1759–60
Vaughan, Charles John
Earnest words for earnest men 1870 (1878)
Memorials of Harrow Sundays 1859 (1863)
The young life equipping itself for God’s service 1872 (1873)
Vaughan, Henry
Works a 1695 (Grosart 1871)
Poems, with the tenth satyre of Juvenal Englished 1646
A fast sermon (on Matth. v. 20 ) 1644
Silex scintillans, or sacred poems and private ejaculations 1650
—ed. 2, in two books 1655 (1858)
Thalia rediviva: the pass-times and diversions of a countrey-muse 1678
Vaughan, Sir John
The reports and arguments of Sir J. V.; being all of them special cases a 1674 (1677)
Vaughan, Rice
A discourse of coin and coinage a 1672 (1675)
Vaughan, Robert
The age of great cities 1843
Vaughan, Robert A.
Essays and remains a 1857 (1858)
Hours with the mystics 1856 (1860)
Vaughan, Thomas
Anima magica abscondita; or a discourse of the universall spirit of nature 1650
Anthroposophia theomagica; or a discourse of the nature of man and his state after death 1650
Euphrates, or the waters of the East 1655
Vaughan, Thomas
Fashionable follies 1782
Vaughan (W. O. G.), Voyages of 1736
See Chetwood, W. R.
Vaughan, William
Boccalini’s (T.) New-found politicke (Part III) tr. 1626
Vaughan (William), Examination of, in a committe of the House of Commons, April 22, 1796 1796
Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford
Anzio 1961
Vaus, John
Rudimenta puerorum in artem grammaticalem 1522 (1531)
Vautrollier, Thomas
Luther’s Commentarie vpon the epistle to the Galathians tr. 1575 (1577)
Vaux, Edward, Lord
Godeau’s (A.) Life of the Apostle St Paul tr. 1653
Vaux, James Hardy
A new and comprehensive vocabulary of the flash language 1812 (in Memoirs, II)
Memoirs, written by himself 1819
Vaux, Thomas, 2nd Baron Vaux
Poems a 1556 (Grosart 1872)
Vaux, William S. W.
On mankind, their origin and destiny 1872
Vawter, Bruce
The conscience of Israel: pre-exile prophets and prophecy 1961
Veal, George
See ‘Collier, Joel’
Vedder, David
Orcadian sketches; legendary and lyrical pieces 1832
Poems 1842
Vegetable substances used for the food of man 1832
Vegetius’ De re militari tr. 1408–09 (MS. Laud 416, MS. Digby 233)
Veitch, John
Knowing and being 1889
The method, meditations, and selections from the principles of Descartes tr. 1879
The Tweed, and other poems 1875
Venables, Edmund
Wieseler’s (K.) Chronological synopsis of the four gospels tr. 1864
Venables, Robert
The experienc’d angler 1662 (See Walton, Iz.)
Veneer, John
A companion for the sincere penitent tr. 1728
Venees, W. T.
El Dorado; or, British Guiana as a field for colonization 1867
Venkatachalam, Govindraj
Dance in India 1948
Venkataraman, Krishnasami
ed. The chemistry of synthetic dyes 8 vols. 1952–78
Venn, Henry
A volume of sermons 1759
Venn, John
The principles of empirical or inductive logic 1889
Symbolic logic 1881 (1894)
Venn, Thomas
Military and maritime discipline 1672
See also Lacey, John; T., W.
Venner, Norman
The imperfect impostor 1925
Venner, Tobias
The baths of Bathe 1628 (1650)
A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco 1621
Via recta ad vitam longam; also the true use of our famous bathes of Bathe 1620 (1628, 1650)
Venning, Ralph
Mercies memorial 1656 (1657)
Milke and honey 1653
Venturoli’s (G.) Elements of practical mechanics tr. by Dan. Cresswell 1823
Venzee, Maria
Fate, or Spong castle; a novel 1803
‘Verax, Theodorus’
See Walker, Clement
Verbatim: the language quarterly 1974–
Verdere. Saulnier’s (G.; sieur Du Verdier) Love and armes of the Greeke princes; or the romant of romants tr. 1640
Verdicts of the learned concerning Virgil and Homer’s heroick poems 1700 (in Regular and irregular thoughts; Somers’ Tracts IV, 1750)
Vere, Edward De, 7th Earl of Oxford
Poems a 1604 (Grosart 1872)
Vere, Sir Francis
Commentaries a 1609 (1657; in Arber, Eng. Garner VII)
Vergilius a 1525
See Virgilius
Vergilius’ (Polydorus) English history. Vol. I. containing the first eight books, comprising the period prior to the Norman conquest c 1540 (Camden Soc. 1846)
——
Three books, comprising the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III c 1540 (Camden Soc. 1844)
See also Langley, T.
Vermandel, Janet Gregory
Dine with the devil 1970
Vermont. Board of Agriculture
Annual report (title varies) 1872–1908
Verne, Jules
The clipper of the clouds [anon. tr.] 1887
Meridiana; the adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa tr. 1873
Verney. Letters and papers of the Verney family down to the end of the year 1639; printed from the original MSS. in the possession of Sir Harry Verney 1478–1639 (Camden Soc. 1853)
Memoirs of the Verney family during the Civil war, compiled from the letters and illustrated by the portraits at Claydon house by F. P. Verney 16.. (1892)
—vol. III during the Commonwealth 1650 to 1660 compiled by Margaret M. Verney 16.. (1894)
—vol. IV 1660–96 16.. (1899)
—ed. 2, abridged and corrected by Margaret M. Verney v.d. (1904)
Verney, Frances Parthenope, Lady
Lettice Lisle 1870
Stone Edge (anon.) 1868
See also above
Verney, John
Friday’s tunnel 1959
Verney, Maria Margaret
ed. Verney letters of the eighteenth century, from the manuscripts at Claydon House 2 vols. 1930
Vernon, Christopher
Considerations for regulating the Exchequer 1642
Vernon, George
The life of Dr. P. Heylyn 1681 (1682)
Vernon, John
The compleat comptinghouse 1678
Vernon, William
Poems on several occasions 1758
Vernon MS. (Bodleian) a 1400
—Minor poems of the (E.E.T.S. 1892–1901)
Veron, John
A fruteful treatise of predestination 1561
The godly saiyngs of the old auncient fathers vpon the sacrament of the bodye and bloude of Chryste tr. 1550 (1846)
A moste necessary treatise of free wil, not onlye against the Papistes, but also against the Anabaptistes c 1561
Verral, William
A complete system of cookery 1759
Verschoyle, Terence Trevor Hamilton
tr. A. E. Haas’s Atomic theory 1927
Verstegan, Richard
A restitution of decayed intelligence: in antiquities 1605 (1628, 1634)
Versus gnomici
See Gnomic verses
Very, Jones
Essays and poems 1839
—Poems and essays. Complete and revised ed. (1886)
Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian Seymour
ed. The book of the dog 1948
Vespasian psalter c 825 (in Sweet, Oldest English texts, E.E.T.S. 1885)
—hymns (ibid.)
Vestiges of the natural history of creation (by Robert Chambers) 1844
Vestry books of Pittington, etc.
See Churchwardens’ accounts
Veterinary journal 1875–95; 1900–48
Veterinary record 1888–
Vetusta monumenta, or ancient monuments illustrative of the history and topography of Great Britain 1747–1842
Vicars, John
Coleman-street conclave visited 1648
England’s worthies under whom all the civill and bloudy warres since 1642 are related (anon.) 1647
God in the mount 1641 (1642)
Jehovah-Jireh; God in the mount, or England’s remembrancer (or parliamentarie-chronicle) (Parts 1 and 2 are an expanded ed. of ‘God in the mount’ 1641) 1642–46
The XII Aeneids of Virgil tr. 1632
Vicary, Thomas
A profitable treatise of the anatomie of mans body 1548 (1577; E.E.T.S. 1888)
—another ed., entitled The Englishmans treasure. With the true anatomye of mans body (? 1585, 1626)
Vices and virtues c 1200 (E.E.T.S. 1888)
Vickerman, Charles
Woollen spinning 1894
Victoria, Queen
Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, 1848–61 (ed. Arthur Helps 1868)
—More leaves, 1862–82 (1884)
See also Fulford, Roger T. B.
Victoria (Australia). Mining Department
Mining surveyors’ reports 1859–63
Victoria Institute, Journal of the transactions of the 1867–
Vidal, Gore
The city and the pillar 1948 (UK 1949)
In a yellow wood 1947
Kalki 1978
Vidian, Andrew
The exact pleader 1684
Vidocq’s (Eugène F.) Memoirs, compiled from Vidocq’s notes by É. Morice & L. F. L’Héritier, tr. (by H. T. R.) 1828–29
View of an ecclesiastic 1698
See Ferguson, R.
View of the penal laws concerning trade and trafick, A 1697
View of a printed book 1642
See Spelman, Sir John
View of sundry examples 1580
See Munday, A.
Vigfusson, Gudbrand
An Icelandic-English dictionary based on the MS. collections of the late Richard Cleasby, enlarged and completed by G. Vigfusson 1874 (1876)
‘Vigilans’ (Eric Honeywood Partridge)
Chamber of horrors: a glossary of official jargon both English and American 1952
Vigne, Godfrey T.
A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan 1840
Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, etc. 1842
Vigo’s (Joannes de) Lytell practyce tr. ? 1535
See also Traheron, B.
Village voice (New York) 1955–
Villari, Linda
Villari’s (P.) Niccolo Machiavelli and his times tr. 1878–83
Villiers, Douglas
ed. Next year in Jerusalem 1976
Villiers, George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Works a 1687 (1704, 1752)
The chances, a comedy (by F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher) corrected and altered 1682 (1735)
The rehearsal 1672 (Arber 1868)
—The fifth edition with amendments and large additions by the author 1687
The restoration, or right will take place (an adaptation of Beaumont & Fletcher’s Philaster) a 1687 (1714)
Vilvain, Robert
Enchiridium epigrammatum Latino-Anglicum; an epitome of essais tr. 1654
Theoremata theologica: theological treatises 1654
Vince, Samuel
The principles of hydrostatics 1800 (1806)
Vince-Prue, Daphne
Photoperiodism in plants 1975
Vincent, E. A.
tr. A. Rittmann’s Volcanoes and their activity 1962
Vincent, Samuel
The young gallant’s academy (Dekker’s ‘Gull’s Hornbook’ adapted to the time) 1674
Vincent, William
The voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected from Arrian 1797
Vincent, William Thomas
Recollections of Fred Leslie 2 vols. 1894
Vindex Anglicus; or, the perfections of the English language defended and asserted 1644 (in Harl. Misc.)
Vindication of the Bishop of Durham (Thomas Morton) from the vile and scandalous calumnies of a libell intituled, The downfall of hierarchie 1641
Vindication of Christmas, The, or, his twelve yeares observations upon the great and lamentable tragedy between the king and parliament 1653
Vindication of Magna Charta as the summary of English rights and liberties, A 1702
Vindication of Sir Thomas Player, and those loyal citizens concerned with him 1679
Vindication of the treatise of monarchy 1644
See Hunton, P.
Vindiciæ Carolinæ: or, a defence of (ascribed to R. Hollingworth or John Wilson) 1692
Vinegar and mustard 1673
See Wade, John
Vines, Richard
A treatise on the institution of the sacrament of the Lord’s supper a 1656 (1677)
Vines, Sydney H.
Lectures on the physiology of plants 1886
Sachs’ (J.) Text-book of botany tr. 1882
See also Prantl, K.
Vines, Walter Sherrard
Humours unreconciled 1928
Vinogradoff, Sir Paul G.
Villainage in England 1892
Vintners. The art and mystery of vintners and wine-coopers 1682 (1703)
Vinycomb, John
Fictitious and symbolic creatures in art 1906
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène E.
Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture Française du xie au xvie siècle 1854–68
Virgilius a 1525 (in Thoms, Prose romances, II, 1827)
Virginia
Calendar of Virginia state papers and other manuscripts ed. W. P. Palmer et al. 11 vols. 1875–93
Virology 1955–
Visger, Mrs. Owen
See Jordan, Denham
Visions of Tundale
See Tundale
Visser, Fredericus Theodorus
An historical syntax of the English language 3 parts in 4 vols. 1963–73
Vitamins and hormones 1943–
Viteles, Morris Simon
Industrial psychology 1933
Vivian, Herbert
See Wilkins, W. H.
Vivisection controversy, The (No. 1) 1883
Vizetelly, Henry
Glances back through seventy years 1893
Vocabulary of Forth and Bargie 1788
See Vallancey, C.
Voegelin, Charles Frederick & Voegelin, Florence Marie R.
Classification and index of the world’s languages 1977
Vogan, Arthur J.
The black police; a story of modern Australia 1891
Vogel’s (H.) Chemistry of light and photography tr. 1875
Vogt’s (Carl) Lectures on man tr. and ed. by James Hunt 1864
Vogue 1892–
Voice (New York) 1884–95
Voiture’s (V.) Letters of affaires, love and courtship tr. by J. Davies 1657
Vole 1977–81
Volney. Chasseboeuf de Volney’s (C. F.) View of the climate and soil of the United States tr. by C. B. Brown 1804
Von Arnim, Mary Annette
Elizabeth and her German garden 1898
The enchanted April 1922
Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 1907
Introduction to Sally 1926
Von Engeln, Oscar Diedrich
Geomorphology 1942
Von Holst; Von Troil
See Holst, H. von; Troil, U. von
Vonnegut, Kurt
Cat’s cradle 1963
Slaughterhouse-five; or, The children’s crusade 1969
Von Neumann, John
Collected works ed. A. H. Taub 6 vols. 1961–3
Von Sternberg, Joseph
Fun in a Chinese laundry 1965 (UK 1966)
Voorloper: an interim presentation of materials for a dictionary of South African English on historical principles ed. W. Branford et al. 1976
Vowell, John
See Hooker, John
Vox and wolf a 1300 (in Reliquiæ ant. II, 1843; Hazlitt, Early pop. poetry I)
Vox turturis, vel columba alba Albionis. The voice of the turtle, or England’s white dove in the deluge of division. Per M. E. Arm(igerum) 1647 (in Thomason Tracts)
Voyage of Spaine and Portingale 1589
See True coppie
Voyage to East Indies 1665
See Terry, E.
Voyage to the East Indies in 1747–48 (by C. F. Noble) 1762
Voyage to Port Philip, Journal of a 1845
Voyle, George E. & Stevenson, G. de Saint-Clair
A military dictionary 1876 (ed. 3)
Voynich, Ethel L.
The gadfly 1897 (1904)
Vulgar errours censured 1659
Vulgaria quedam abs Terencio in Anglicam linguam traducta 1483
Vulpone; or remarks on some proceedings in Scotland relating both to the Union and protestant succession since the revolution 1707