ISBN: 9781385239285

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 t… 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: ++++Harvard University Houghton LibraryN015388A number of the pieces in Part I, and two of the pieces in Part II are by Pope. This edition reprints the text of the third London edition of Part I (Griffith 90); Part II is a reissue of 'Pope's miscellany. The second part', London 1717 (Griffith 89), with the titlepage and advertisement (signed "D") cancelled. Bookseller's name from MH-H. With two final advertisement leaves.London: printed for R. Burleigh i.e. E. Curll], 1719. 2],24;26, 4]p.; 12 Books List_Books<

ISBN: 9781385239285

Court Poems in two Parts Compleat. To Which are Added, I. Verses Upon Prudery. II. An Epitaph Upon John Hewett and Mary Drew, who Were Killed by Lightening, at Stanton-Harcourt, in Oxford… More...

Court Poems in two Parts Compleat. To Which are Added, I. Verses Upon Prudery. II. An Epitaph Upon John Hewett and Mary Drew, who Were Killed by Lightening, at Stanton-Harcourt, in Oxfordshire. By Mr. Pope See Notes Multiple Contributors, Books, Reference and Language, Court Poems in two Parts Compleat. To Which are Added, I. Verses Upon Prudery. II. An Epitaph Upon John Hewett and Mary Drew, who Books>Reference and Language, Gale ECCO, Print Editions<