New Books
- Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - Le Sopha, conte moral
- Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews
- Eliza Haywood - The Virtuous Villager (prose fiction)
- Charles Jervas (misprinted as "Jarvis") - English translation of Don Quixote
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