Colonial Settlement
Colonial Period - Literature
Colonial Period - Literature
Books Read in Falmouth in 1770s
Books ordered from printers in England to be sent to Falmouth citizens through Anderson’s Trading Post in 1770. Anderson’s Trading Post is now called Amy’s Café. (Complied from notes of Dr. Oscar Darter)
- Beauties of Nature and Art
- Johnson’s Dictionaries
- Easops (Aesops) Fables
- The Free Thinker
- Gentlemen’s Instructions
- Gospel Sonnets
- Humes History of England
- Horn Books
- Making Ink Powder
- History of China
- Masques and Songs
- Montesquieu Persian Letter
- Newtonian System of Philosophy
- Pilgrims Progress
- Pope’s Essays on Man
- Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
- Book of Common Prayer
- Pretty Books for Children
- Religious Courtship
- Robertson’s History of Scotland
- Robinson Crusoe
- Seneca’s Complete Works
- Shakespeare’s Works
- Tissott’s Advice
- Voltaire’s Forces of Education
- Whole Dairy of Man
