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 T130471 Anonymous. By Alain Ren??? Le Sage. Translated by Tobias George Smollett. The imprint is false; probably printed at York for Wilson, Spence and Mawman. London [i.e. York?]: printed for A. Law, W. Millar, and T. Martin, 1794. 4v., plates; 12???
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Add this copy of The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane; a New to cart. $607.00, Sold by Bartleby's Books ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chevy Chase, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1766 by Printed for T. Osborne [and others].
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1766, Printed for T. Osborne [and others]
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Printed for T. Osborne [and others]
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1766
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Third edition of the Smollett translation (first published in 1749). 12mo. 4 volumes: xii, 312; iv, 263; vii, 292; viii, 276 pp. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece to each volume and 29 other copper-engraved plates. For his own fiction, Smollett "preferred to adapt to his purpose the 'picaresque' method of Le Sage...Smollett's hero, like 'Gil Blas' recounts a life of varied adventures, which he experiences in the company of a servant" (DNB, from a long entry). CBEL II, p. 525. Lowndes Vol. II, p. 1343: "A translation of great merit...the English author is true to the sense manner and spirit of the original, and is often extremely happy in the interchange of particular idioms" (quoted from Tytler). A little foxing, but a very good copy. Later tan polished calf (rubbed, especially joints and spine ends), gilt, marbled endpapers, leather labels and gilt rules and ornaments between raised bands on spine, aall edges gilt, by Zaehnsdorf. (#5970).
