{"product_id":"literary-anecdotes-of-the-eighteenth-century-comprizing-biographical-memoirs-of-william-bowyer-printer-f-s-a-and-many-of-his-learned-friends-paperback-9781108074070","title":"Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of his Learned Friends (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108074070","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiterary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eComprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of his Learned Friends\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis nine-volume work, published 1812–15, provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Nichols (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108074070, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 August 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e742 pages, 4 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 4.1 cm, 0.93 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface to the first edition\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the second edition\u003cbr\u003e Typographical anecdotes of Mr Bowyer's press from 1699 to 1731\u003cbr\u003e 1. Dr William Nicholls\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rev. William Whiston\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rev. Francis Peck\u003cbr\u003e 4. Who was the author of Eikon Basilike?\u003cbr\u003e 5. Original letters of Humfrey Wanley\u003cbr\u003e 6. Two letters on the Paris Bible, at Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e 7. Three Masters of St John's College, Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e 8. Origins of the Free and Candid Disquisitions, 1749\u003cbr\u003e 9. Rev. Dr Gloster Ridley\u003cbr\u003e 10. Rev. Dr Philip Bearcroft\u003cbr\u003e 11. Rev Dr Thomas Morell\u003cbr\u003e 12. Rev. William Cole\u003cbr\u003e 13. Additions and corrections.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266185285912,"sku":"9781108074070","price":46.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108074070i_a38e982a-aae4-4153-8001-b2feb7050bd7.jpg?v=1696751490","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/literary-anecdotes-of-the-eighteenth-century-comprizing-biographical-memoirs-of-william-bowyer-printer-f-s-a-and-many-of-his-learned-friends-paperback-9781108074070","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}