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 revoluti... Read 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: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)P003026Editor: Johann Wilhelm von Archenholtz. Imprints include years of publication. Colophon in vols. 1-2 reads: Printed by J.M. Michaelsen. Date of last number from note at end of vol. 3: "present work is concluded with this volume," apparently due to poor sales; note dated: June 26, 1788; signed: v. Archenholtz. Detailed contents intended to be included at end of each volume; vol. 1 contents omitted in error, included in vol. 2. Miscellaneous essays and excerpts from previously published works: histories, fiction, plays, biographies; includes articles on natural science, anecdotes, puzzles, poetry, correspondence of well known literary and public figures (e.g. Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson). Issues include unpublished letters of "the late Mr. Sterne," no. 7-32; footnote in no. 1 reports that no. 1-6 were previously published in the British Mercury and cannot be reprinted. Each issue includes unnumbered essay: The Moralist.Hamburgh i.e. Hamburg, Germany] 1787.: printed for the editor, and in commission at Mr. Bohn, 1787-1788]. 3 v.; 8 Less