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
Cross-Keys in Fleet-Street.

M DCC LIV.