In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 and 1815, the author and publisher John Nichols (1745–1826) provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century, and also gives 'an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century'. (A shorter version had been published in 1782.) His subjects range from the publisher William Bowyer to Henry Fielding and Horace Walpole, and also include histories of individual publishing houses and of genres such as lexicography. Many of the authors dealt with are not remembered today, but the work remains a useful source of biographical material on authors and publishers at a period when many of the literary genres we take for granted, such as the novel, the autobiography and the analytical history, were first being developed.

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Product details
- Date Published: March 2015
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108074162
- length: 6710 pages
- dimensions: 310 x 251 x 272 mm
- weight: 8.4kg
- contains: 34 b/w illus.
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Typographical anecdotes of Mr Bowyer's press from 1699 to 1731
1. Dr William Nicholls
2. Rev. William Whiston
3. Rev. Francis Peck
4. Who was the author of Eikon Basilike?
5. Original letters of Humfrey Wanley
6. Two letters on the Paris Bible, at Cambridge
7. Three Masters of St John's College, Cambridge
8. Origins of the Free and Candid Disquisitions, 1749
9. Rev. Dr Gloster Ridley
10. Rev. Dr Philip Bearcroft
11. Rev Dr Thomas Morell
12. Rev. William Cole
13. Additions and corrections. Volume 2: Annals of Mr Bowyer's press from 1732 to 1765
Essays and illustrations, 1–18. Volume 3: Annals of Mr Bowyer's press from 1766 to 1777
First publication of his memoirs and other works
Memoirs of literary persons
History of the Stationers' Company
A list of their various benefactors
Progress of selling books by catalogues
Letters of Mr Daniel Prince
Printers and booksellers
Additions and corrections. Volume 4: Essays and illustrations 1–28. Volume 5: Essays and illustrations, 1–17. Volume 6: Account of the Gentlemen's Society at Spalding
List of members
History of the Peterborough Society
Letters on the origin of the Society of Antiquaries in London
Memoirs of literary persons
Brief memoirs of the author of these volumes
Additions and corrections. Volume 7: Advertisement
Preface
List of subscribers
Index. Volume 8: Advertisement
Anecdotes. Volume 9: Advertisement
Anecdotes.
Author
John Nichols