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.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)

P003148

A general title page and prefatory material was issued to subscribers at the end of publication. Imprint from collected issue title page; individual issues lack imprints. Title and issue number repeated as running title. Advertisement to the reader at end of no. 26 reads in part: "four suceeding numbers ... necessary to complete this volume, will be published together on Saturday the 11th of December; and a title page, index, and preface, will be ready ... the Saturday after." Last page of preface includes printer's advertisement. Unsigned, but with continuous pagination; turned chain lines, in 4s. Essays on the conduct of life, based on anecdotes, classical allusions and selections of fiction; some issues in verse. Description based on: No. 2. (Saturday, September 4th. 1784.); title from caption.

Whitby England]: printed by C. Webster on the Crag, M, DCC, LXXXIV. 1784]. 27 v.: 19 cm. (8 ) Less