UID:
edocfu_9960118121002883
Format:
1 online resource (iv, 732 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-44857-3
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
Content:
In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 & 1815, the author & publisher John Nichols provides biographical notes on publishers, writers & artists of the 18th century, & also gives 'an incidental view of the progress & advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century'. His subjects range from the publisher William Bowyer to Henry Fielding & Horace Walpole, & also include histories of individual publishing houses & of genres such as lexicography. The work remains a useful source of biographical material on authors & publishers at a period when many of the literary genres we take for granted, such as the novel, the autobiography & the analytical history, were first being developed. Volume 2 includes memoirs of Richard Farmer & George Steevens, & a history of Bowyer's press from 1732 to 1765.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2014.
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Originally published: London: John Nichols, 1812.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-07408-1
Language:
English
