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 ...
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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: ++++ British Library T101778 Large paper issue. Londini: typis Guilielmi Bowyer, 1728. xxii, [2],165, [1];[2],352p.; 4???
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Add this copy of P. Papinii Statii [Publius Papinius Statius]: Silvarum to cart. $303.00, fair condition, Sold by Ancient World Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 1798 by Guilielmi Bowyer.
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Fair with no dust jacket. Full leather binding but boards are worn with rubbing and wear to extremities. Spine cover is missing and has been repaired with brown binding tape. Typed spine label affixes to spine with cellotape. 1 Ffep is loose but present. Tape applied as reinforcement to gutters of inner covers and to titlepage and last page of text but has now browned leaving tape stains. Scholar's bookplate to ffep (G. P. Goold). Additional Bookplate of Robert Plumptre to front inner cover (perhaps President of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1760? ). Clean text. Fair to good.; XXII, 161, 352 pp; 4to 11"-13" tall; 535 pages.
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