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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century - Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of his Learned Friends (Paperback)
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century - Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of his Learned Friends (Paperback)
Series: Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century 9 Volume Set, Volume 1
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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. As well as individual short biographies, Volume 1
contains a history of Bowyer's press from 1699 to 1731.
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