A

TALE OF A TU B.

Written for the

UNIVERSAL IMPROVEMENT

OF

MANKIND.

Diu multumque defideratum.

To which is added,

An Account of a Battle between the
Antient and Modern Books in St.
James's Library.

Bafyma cacabafa eanaa, irraumifta diarbada caëota

bafobor camelanthi.

Iren. Lib. 1. C. 18.

-Juvatque novos decerpere flores,

Infignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam,
Unde prius nulli velarunt tempora Mufa. Lucret.

With the Author's Apology;

And Explanatory Notes, by W. Wotton, B. D.
and others.

LONDON:

Printed for CHARLES BATHURST, at the
Crofs-Keys in Fleet-Street.

M DCC LIV.