A Catalogue of a Very Large Collection of Good Books, in Most Languages, and in All Branches of Learning; Being the Libraries of Gibson Dalzell, Esq; The Rev. Mr. Davis, and of Dr. Woodhouse, ... to Be Sold, 1757

A Catalogue of a Very Large Collection of Good Books, in Most Languages, and in All Branches of Learning; Being the Libraries of Gibson Dalzell, Esq; The Rev. Mr. Davis, and of Dr. Woodhouse, ... to Be Sold, 1757
Author: Thomas Payne
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385585160

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 T030059 [London, 1757]. iv,240p.; 8°

Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Author: Hazel Wilkinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108191495

Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–6) occupied an important place in eighteenth-century culture. Spenser influenced almost every major writer of the century, from Alexander Pope to William Wordsworth. What was it like to read Spenser in the eighteenth century? Who made Spenserian books, and how did their owners use and interpret them? The first comprehensive study of all of the eighteenth-century editions of Edmund Spenser addresses these questions through bibliographical analysis, and through examination of the history of the book and of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Within these contexts, Hazel Wilkinson provides new information about the production, contents, texts, and reception of the eighteenth-century editions of Spenser, to illuminate how his cultural presence became so far-reaching. With each chapter structured around a major edition of Spenser's work, this volume provides a timely addition to arguments about the nature of literary history and the growing cult of great writers of the past.