The Foundling Hospital For Wit.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revoluti... Read more

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)P006689"Intended for the reception and preservation of such brats of wit and humour, whose parents chuse to drop them." Note on t.p. of no. 6: By Timothy Silence, Esq. With a half-title in no. 1, and added caption titles in each number. Title page of no. 1 includes contents note. Imprints vary; in no. 6: "printed for W. Webb, near St. Paul's"; followed by note: "Where may be had any of the preceding numbers." Below imprint of no. 6 in square brackets: Price one shilling and sixpence. Following number of each issue: To be continued occasionally. Table of contents for no. 1 issued with no. 2. Includes ballads and other poems on various subjects, with imaginary correspondence.London England]: printed for G. Lion near Ludgate, 1743-1749. 6 v.; 20 cm. (8 ) Less