Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

Volume 1. Francis Bacon : Of seeming wise ; Of studies ; Of truth ; Of revenge ; Of envy ; Of love ; Of friendship ; Of youth and age ; Of simulation and dissimulation ; Of parents and children ; Of travel --
Robert Burton : Perturbation of the mind rectified ; remedies of all manner of discontents --
Sir Thomas Browne : Of toleration ; Of providence ; Of charity ; Of life --
Thomas Fuller : Of jesting ; Of self-praising ; Of company ; Of memory ; Of fancy --
John Milton : On education --
Abraham Cowley : Of solitude ; Of agriculture ; Of greatness ; Of myself --
Sir William Temple : Against excessive grief --
John Dryden : Of heroic plays --
John Locke : Of practice and habits ; Of principles ; Of prejudices ; Of observation ; Of reading ; Some thoughts concerning education --
Daniel Defoe : The instability of human glory ; Description of a quack doctor --
Jonathan Swift : On style ; The vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff --
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury : The deity unfolded in his works --
Sir Richard Steele : A scene of domestic felicity ; A death-bed scene ; The trumpet club ; On the death of friends ; The spectator club ; The ugly club ; Sir Roger and the widow --
Joseph Addison : The character of Ned Softly ; Nicolini and the lions ; Fans ; Sir Roger at the Assizes ; The vision of Mirza ; The art of grinning ; Sir Roger at the abbey ; Sir Roger at the play ; The tory fox-hunter --
Alexander Pope : On dedications ; On epic poetry --
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield : On passion --
Henry Fielding : The commonwealth of letters --
Samuel Johnson : The advantages of living in a garret ; Literary courage --
David Hume : Of the delicacy of taste and passion ; Of simplicity and refinement in writing ; Of refinement in the arts --
William Shenstone : A humorist ; On reserve ; An opinion of ghosts ; On writing and books --
Thomas Gray : On Norman Architecture ; On the philosophy of Lord Bolingbroke --
Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford : Change of style --
Oliver Goldsmith : National prejudice ; The man in black ; A club of authors ; Beau Tibbs ; A city night-piece --
Edmund Burke : On taste --
William Cowper : On conversation --
George Colman and Bonnell Thornton : The ocean of ink --
Henry Mackenzie : Extraordinary account of Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Ploughman --
Sydney Smith : Fallacies of anti-reformers --
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : On poesy or art --
Francis Jeffrey : Waverley, or 'tis sixty years since.

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