Excerpt from Robert Dodsley, Poet, Publisher and Playwright New material in some abundance has come to hand. The British Museum possesses the volume of Dodsley's letters to William Shenstone (add. Mss. Which was bound by the poet in 1759, besides other collections of contemporary letters in which frequent mention is made of the publisher and his various schemes. With one exception (add. Mss. Which my friend Professor Hans Hecht of the University of Basle has printed under the title of Thomas Percy and William Shenstone ein ...
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Excerpt from Robert Dodsley, Poet, Publisher and Playwright New material in some abundance has come to hand. The British Museum possesses the volume of Dodsley's letters to William Shenstone (add. Mss. Which was bound by the poet in 1759, besides other collections of contemporary letters in which frequent mention is made of the publisher and his various schemes. With one exception (add. Mss. Which my friend Professor Hans Hecht of the University of Basle has printed under the title of Thomas Percy and William Shenstone ein Briefwechsel aus' der Entste hungszeit der Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Strassburg, none of these have been published. An even more interesting collection of Dodsley's letters (as originally composed by him in a letter book) is in the Birmingham Free Libraries. Altogether nearly two hundred letters to or from him have passed through my hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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