An Advertisement, concerning the Printing and Publishing of Ancient and other Useful Books.  
Whereas divers Persons of eminent Quality and Learning, have made it their complaint that several useful and necessary Books are lost to the World, and never likely to be published, because men of Trade, only intent upon their gain, will not be at the expense and hazard of such impressions, as chief point at the honour and improvement of knowledge; and endeavour to frustrate the design lately conceived in this place of publishing from MSS. copies in Libraries, considerable Writers not yet Printed, and of making more correct and perfect editions of many of the ancient Fathers and Authors, by collating them with MSS. copies that have not yet been considered; and also of bringing down the excessive price of books, and advancing the Printing manufacture in this Nation: And whereas we the undertakers for the Press in the University of Oxford have been earnestly desired by the said honourable Persons, that we would effectually proceed in the editions of those books which we have publicly declared to be ready for the Press, and have propounded others themselves which they esteem equally desirable: to which our answer was that we are and shall be always ready to Print whatever Book shall be proposed to us for the public service, in whatever Language and Faculty it happen to be, and shall take care for the accurate correction thereof, provided that there shall be certainly taken off five hundred copies of every book when it is printed: which offer the said honourable Persons have approved, and have desired that it might be publicly signified, not doubting but that so many will be found to join with them as would make up the number required, and free the Press from dependence upon men of trade, and other hazards; and also open a way for the publishing of all useful books.  
In consideration of the premises, and compliance with the desires above expressed, we the Undertakers for the Press in the University of Oxford do publicly offer, than if twenty five Persons shall please so far to promite this affair, as to make a correspondence each with twenty Persons, for whom they will be responsible, that they will join in the before mention's engagement, of taking off such book or books as they desire to have printed, that then the edition of the said book or books shall immediately be set in hand with, according to the direction and appointment of the said five and twenty Persons, or the major part of them, who shall order the Paper, Character, disposition of the Work, and price thereof; and the book or books, when finished, shall be delivered to the hands or order of the said five and twenty Persons, for the use of themselves, and those whom they correspond with. Which course shall be continued fromm time to time upon the terms above expressed.   

Books in the THEATER Press upon the account of the Undertakers of the University, besides those set in hand with by M. Pitt and his Partners.  

JOsephus his Works Gr. Lat.  
St. Cyprians Works Lat.  
Ptolemies Harmonics Gr. Lat.  
Job. Scotus Erigena of the Division of Nature Lat.  
Lactantius his Works Lat.  
A Comment on Hosea by Dr. Pocock English.  
The four Evangelists in he Egyptian Tongue.    

Books ready for the Press.  

Damascius of the Principles of things Gr. never Printed.  
Jo. Antiochen. Hist. Gr. Lat. never Printed.  
Arabic Proverbs to the number of six thousand, never Printed.  
Juchasin, or an account of Learned men among the Jews Heb. & Lat.  
The New Testament in Greek diligently revised, and collated with many MSS. not before met with.  
The Targum on the Books of Chronicles Heb. & Lat. by Mr. Sam. Clerk.  
A Concordance of the Septuagint, according to the Greek Alphabet.  
Caesar's Commentaries in Lat. revised, and Illustraed with Figures.  
The Epistles of Libanius Gr. never Printed.  
The Saxon Glossary and Etymologicon of Mr. Francis Junius never Printed.  
The Letters of Thomas Becket Lat. never yet Printed.  
English-Historians in Latin, not yet extant, such as are  
" The Annals of England by N. Trivet, with the continuation of Adam Merimuth.  
" The Annals of Burton.  
" The English Chronicle by Peter de Ickham.  
" The Antiquities of Glastenbury, by William of Malmsbury.  
" His fifth Book of Bishops.  
" The History of England by Jo. Ross.  
" The Chronicle of S. Swithins Monastery.  
" The Annals of England by Th. Otterburn.  
" Chron. of the Monastery of Mailrose.  
" Chron. of England by Jo. Merilynch.  
" Chron. of the Monastery of St. Edmund.  
" The Genealogy of the Kings of England and Catalogue of Abbots of Glassenbury.  
" History of Bishops of Bath and Wells.  
" The Title of Edward the third to the Kingdom of France.  
Several Tracts of Sir Henry Spelman in English never yet Printed.  
Commentaries on several Books of the Holy Scripture in English never Printed.    

Books making ready for the Press.  

Justin Martyr, and other of the Greek Fathers revised in their Text and new Translated.  
Several Acts of the Ancient Martyrs, Lat. not yet Printed.  
Plutarch and other Classical Greek Writers Collated with MSS. and new Translated.  
Several Greek Councils never Printed.  
The Commentaries of Saadias' and other Robbins on part of the H. Bible in Arabic, net yet Printed.  
Math. Quaestor against the Latins or Roman Church, Gr. never Printed.  
The Ancient Mathematicians; as Euclid. Archimedes, Apollonius, Pappus, Serenus etc. Gr. & Lat. Collated with MSS. some of them never ye Printed.  
Heraclius the Emperor's Astronomy Gr. & Lat. never Printed.  
Vettius Valens Astrol. Gr. & Lat. never Printed.  
Cyrills' Gloss. Gr. never Printed.  
The Ancient Greek Grammarians; as 

" Herodian his Epitome of the 20 Books of Theodosius, never Printed.  
" Chaeroboscus his Canons never Printed.  
" Porphyries Gram. never Printed.  
" Herodians Scholia on Homer, never Printed.  
" Several Scholia on the Greek Poets not yet Printed.    
The Poliorcetics of Athenaeus, Bito and others, never Printed.  
The Misna Heb. & Lat.  
Dionys. Exig. as it supposed, his Catena on the Epistles of S. Paul in Syriac, never Printed.  
Abdollatiph Ebn Yuseph Bagdadensis Arab. & Lat. of things remarkable in Egypt.  
Abulfedas' Geogr. Arab. & Lat. never Printed.  
The Liturgy of the Coptites in the Egyptian Tongue.  
The Psalter in the Egyptian Tongue.  
The Writers of the British History many of which were never Printed. or not in the Volume put forth at Frankford.  
A Grammar of the Malaian Tongue.  
The Saxon Homilies.  
The Saxon Chronicle, and other Writers of the Saxon History, a great part of which never Printed.  
The Saxon and English Laws, till Acts of Parliament, many of which never Printed.  
The Writers of the English History put forth by Sr. Henry Savil and others Collated with better Copies, and exceedingly much corrected.  
Jo. Lelands Works several of which never yet Printed.  
Lives of eminent Persons both Foreigners and English, many of which never Printed.  
Several Latin Classical Writers Collated with MSS. and illustrated with Annotations.