Format:
1 Online-Ressource (750 pages)
ISBN:
9781107448575
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Literary Studies
Content:
In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 and 1815, the author and publisher John Nichols (1745–1826) provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century, and also gives 'an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century'. (A shorter version had been published in 1782.) His subjects range from the publisher William Bowyer to Henry Fielding and Horace Walpole, and also include histories of individual publishing houses and of genres such as lexicography. The work remains a useful source of biographical material on authors and publishers at a period when many of the literary genres we take for granted, such as the novel, the autobiography and the analytical history, were first being developed. Volume 2 includes memoirs of Richard Farmer and George Steevens, and a history of Bowyer's press from 1732 to 1765
Note:
This edition first published 1812, this digitally printed version 2014
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108074087
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Print version ISBN 9781108074087
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107448575
Author information:
Nichols, John 1745-1826
