A large, ornate heraldic engraving at the top of the page. It features a coat of arms with a shield containing multiple quarterings, topped with a coronet and a crest of a bull. The shield is surrounded by elaborate acanthus scrollwork and is flanked by two pillars decorated with a vertical arrangement of flowers. A banner at the bottom bears the motto "LOVE SERVE". The signature "S. Gribelin sculp." Simon Gribelin (1661–1733) was a famous French engraver who worked in England. appears at the bottom right of the engraving.

PREFACE

If the Author of these united tracts original: "Tracts"; short treatises or pamphlets on a particular subject. had been any friend to PREFACES, he would probably have made his entrance in that manner in one or another of the five treatises formerly published separately. But as for all prefatory or dedicatory discourse, he has told us his mind sufficiently in that treatise which he calls SOLILOQUY Referring to "Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author," one of the works in this collection.. Being satisfied, however, that there are many