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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 T230424 Includes on the verso of p. 23 'The maid's prayer'. Aberdeen: printed for James Hay, and sold by all booksellers in town and country, 1788. 23, [1]p.; 12???
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Add this copy of An Essay on Woman, By J. Wilkes, Esq to cart. $29.77, new condition, Sold by Books2anywhere rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fairford, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2018 by Gale Ecco, Print Editions.
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Add this copy of An Essay on Woman, By J. Wilkes, Esq to cart. $309.50, good condition, Sold by Tavistock Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1872 by Printed for James Hay, and Sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country.
Edition:
1872, Printed for James Hay, and Sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country
Publisher:
Printed for James Hay, and Sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country
Published:
1872
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18003379087
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Some general wear & soiling to outer leaves, Very Good. 23, [1] pp. "The Maid's Prayer", p. 24. Printer's ornament to t.p. 12mo. 7" x 4-5/8" Wilkes "was a British radical, journalist and politician. This publication 'a pornographic poem dedicated to the courtesan Fanny Murray, and a parody of Alexander Pope's 'An Essay on Man'. Fanny Murray, née Fanny Rudman and later Fanny Ross, was an 18th-century English courtesan, mistress to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich and dedicatee of the fateful Essay on Woman (1763) that led to the downfall of John Wilkes." [Wiki]. Per OCLC's entry, "A spurious version of Wilke's burlesque of Pope's Essay on Man; no copy of the original is known. Begins: Awake my Sandwich, leave all meaner joys...On p. 18 "Book VI." is a misprint for Book IV, indicating this is one of 100 copies reprinted in Stuttgart by J. Scheible in 1872 (NUC NE 0174383)."