Mathematics is represented primarily by the second edition of Newton's _Principia_ (1713), by Le Clerc's _Physica_ (1700 etc.), by Robert Green's _Principles of Natural Philosophy_ (1712--an anti-Newtonian treatise) and by the _Praelectiones_ (1707 and 1710) and other works of W. Whiston; biography by Knight's _Life of Erasmus_ (1726); Oriental studies by Ockley's _Introductio ad Linguas Orientales_ (1706) and Lyons's _Hebrew Grammar_ (1735). A work of more general interest is the first edition of Sir Thomas Browne's _Christian Morals_, published from the MS of the Author by John Jeffery and printed by Crownfield in 1716. [Illustration: A COMPOSITOR'S RECEIPT, 1705] (Among the items may be noted one of Sir Isaac Newton's works and the Vice-Chancellor's order putting Sturbridge Fair out of bounds) These, of course, are only a few titles selected from the bibliography of the period. [Illustration: TITLE PAGE OF _CHRISTIAN MORALS_, 1716] Between 1725 and 1738/9 there are no entries in the Curators' minute-book; the driving power of Bentley's energy and enthusiasm was flagging and the Press had become a source of pecuniary loss to the university. The agreements of 1706 and 1727 with the Stationers, by which the university surrendered the right of printing a large number of school books in return for money payments, no doubt represent an attempt to meet this difficulty[97]. Similarly in December, 1730, it was resolved to lease the university's right of printing bibles and prayer-books to "Mr James & Company" for the sum of £100 per annum, an additional £5 per annum to be paid during the lifetime of Jonathan Pindar, whose formal resignation had been arranged by a grace of 28 August[98]. This arose out of an application which has a special interest in the history of printing. About the beginning of 1730 William Fenner, a London stationer, did bring up from Edinburgh a Scotsman named Wᵐ Ged; who had or pretended to have found out the Art of casting, upon Plates, whole Pages of Letters ... wͨͪ 'twas thought would be of great advantage to the publick, as well as to the proprietors of the Invention. This invention came to the notice of a type-founder named Thomas James who was so much struck by its possibilities that he was of opinion that the Design of printing by such plates would in short time be brought to such perfection as would greatly injure if not wholly ruine the business of letter-founding, by wͨͪ he then made shift to support a large family.