Thomas Evans (bookseller, 1742–1784)

Life

Works

• Poems by Mr. W. Shakespeare .
• A History of Wales by Caradoc of Lhancarvan. Englished by Dr. Powell, London, 1774.
• Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz, translated, London, 1774, 4 vols.
• The Works of Richard Savage, London, 1775, 2 vols.
• The Works of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, London, 1775, 2 vols.
• The English, Scotch, and Irish Historical Libraries, by Bishop W. Nicolson, a new edition, London, 1776.
• A Solemn Declaration of Mr. Daniel Perreau, written by himself, London, 1776. Daniel Perreau was a forger of bonds, hanged in 1776.
• Desiderata Curiosa, by Francis Peck, new edition, London, 1779, 2 vols. Evans submitted in it a proposal to reprint Thomas Tanner's Notitia Monastica, some years later published by James Nasmith in a new edition.
• Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, London, 1779, 2 vols.
• Poetical and Dramatic Works of O. Goldsmith, London, 1780, 2 vols.
• Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, with some of Modern Date, now first collected and reprinted from Rare Copies and MSS., with Notes by T. Evans, London, 1784, 2 vols. First edition, 1777, 2 vols.; third edition, edited by R. H. Evans, his son, 1810, 4 vols. This was his major work.
• The Works of Francis Rabelais, translated, London, 1784, 4 vols.

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