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There's a lot more if you're prepared to creep into the early 1800s, for instance the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian and loads of other books set in the Napoleonic Wars, but those below are specifically the second half of the 1700s - I don't know how late you'd like them to be, but some are only just into the 1750s and 1760s. Asterisked are books that I rated 5 or 6 stars (out of 6), but I enjoyed all of them:

The 'Regency' novels of Georgette Heyer (whilst the Regency period was strictly 1810-1820, they're really more generically set in late eighteenth, early nineteenth century)
Rosetta by Barbara Ewing*
The Fraud by Barbara Ewing
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald*
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel*
Landfalls by Naomi Williams*
Casanova by Andrew Miller
Pure by Andrew Miller*
Sedition by Katherine Grant
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Mistress of the Revolution by Catherine Delors
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson*
Silver by Andrew Motion
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell*
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd*
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Burning Bright by Tracey Chevalier
The Potter's Hand by AN Wilson*
The Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern


I've not read them but The early Poldark books are all set in the 1790s - Winston Graham

 

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I'd second the rec for Perfume by Patrick Suskind -- it's wonderful -- except the OP should bear in mind that it's set in France, rather than Britain.   :D

 

Yes, sorry, I missed the bit about being set in Britain.  Quite a few are not!

Of those, at least partly set in Britain:

 

Rosetta (partly)

The Fraud

Sedition

The Scarlet Pimpernel (partly)

The Lambs of London

According to Queeney

Burning Bright

The Potter's Hand

The Music of the Spheres

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