Poems on Several Occasions. Containing the Progress of Music in Ireland. ... an Ode on His Majesty's Birth-Day. to Which Is Added, the Plague of Wealth, ... with Several Poems Not in the Dublin Edition.

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 ... 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: ++++ British Library T134719 Sigs.S3, S4 were cancelled and not replaced, though the pagination remains continuous (Foxon). London: printed for T. Woodward; Charles Davis, and W. Bowyer, 1731. [2], xiv, [4],184p.: ill.; 8??? Read Less

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  	Edition: 1731, Pringted for T. Woodward...Charles Davis Hardcover, Fine/Like New	Details: Edition: First printing Publisher: Pringted for T. Woodward...Charles Davis Published: 1731 Language: English Alibris ID: 16621323746	Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $4.56 Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
  Seller's Description: Fine. First London edition, 1731, revised from the Dublin edition of 1730. 8vo, contemporary paneled calf, xiv, 184 pp, engraved frontispiece, red morocco label, exceptionally fine copy. The author became friendly with Swift in the 1720s, and was part of the circle of Swift's friends that included William Dunkin who has contributed a prefatory poem.
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