Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century 9 Volume Set
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century 9 Volume Set
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USDIn 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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March 2015Multiple copy pack
9781108074162
6710 pages
310 × 251 × 272 mm
8.4kg
34 b/w illus.
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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.
