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 LibraryT091679Anonymous. By James Puckle.Cork: re-printed from the third edition of a London-copy, by Samuel Terry, for John Redwood, 1721. 96p.; 8
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Fair. First Edition. Hardback. Large 8vo. pp x, [8], 96. Bound in half brown leather over marbled boards, lettered gilt at the spine with five raised bands. Limited edition, number 450 of 500 small paper copies. Label on the front pastedown reads, "Subscriber's copy". Portrait frontispiece. Somewhat worn copy, with loss at spine, moderate edgewear and some staining on the front cover, overall a used, very good minus copy with clean text.
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Very good. Frontispiece portrait of Puckle; decorative title, and 27 small wood engravings by Thurston and James Thompson. [10], x, 96 pages. Short 4to, in an fine contemporary binding of diced Russia covers, the boards with armorial centerpiece surrounded by elaborate gilt and blind-stamped foliate borders. Red morocco spine, presumably later, but equally ornate; inner & outer dentelles, marbled edges. London: Printed for the proprietor by John Johnson, and sold by Longman, et al., 1817. The frontis and title are foxed and dampstained but other pages generally quite clean. A very good copy in very attractive and intriguing early binding. Limited Edition-one of only 200 large paper copies, with the illustrations printed on smooth paper and skillfully laid in. Reprint of the 1711 edition of this popular collection of character sketches, embellished by Thurston illustrations. "A neat edition." Lowndes 2005.
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