1724 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1724.

Events

• January – Andrew Michael Ramsay goes to Rome to tutor the two sons of James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the British throne.
• August – Thomas Longman establishes the Longman publishing house in London.
• November 16 – An "autobiographical" Narrative of the life of notorious criminal Jack Sheppard, said to be by Daniel Defoe, goes on sale at Sheppard's execution at Tyburn.

New books

Prose

• Anonymous (attributed to Daniel Defoe) – A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard
• Gilbert Burnet (died 1715) – Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Vol. I
• Samuel Clarke – Sermons of Samuel Clarke
• Anthony Collins – Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing
• Mary Davys – The Reform'd Coquet (novella)
• Daniel Defoe
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• A New Voyage Round the World
• A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain
• John Dennis – Vice and Luxury Publick Mischiefs (on Mandeville)
• Richard Fiddes
• A General Treatise of Morality (on Mandeville)
• The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
• Eliza Haywood
• La Belle Assemblé
• The Fatal Secret (fiction)
• Lasselia
• The Masqueraders
• Thomas Hearne, ed. – Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
• Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (died 1674) – An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion
• Captain Charles Johnson (attributed to Daniel Defoe or Nathaniel Mist) – A General History of the Pyrates
• William Law – Remarks Upon a Late Book (against Mandeville)
• John Oldmixon – The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil
• Paul de Rapin – L'Histoire d'Angleterre
• Jonathan Swift
• A Letter to the Shop-keepers... of Ireland (as M. B. Drapier)
• A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer (as Drapier)
• Some Observations Upon a Paper Relating to Wood's Half-pence (as Drapier)
• A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland (Drapier)
• A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth (last of the Drapier letters)
• Seasonable Advice
• Isaac Watts – Logic, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences