Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, and Embellished with a Plate to Each Fable. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781170177440)

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 LibraryT013872The titlepage is engraved. One of two settings with the same titlepage. In this setting the last line of text on A2r ends "is not known," the catchword is: The; the lines of text are loosely spaced, p.242 is misnumbered 422, and leaf Q3 is signed.London: printed by Darton & Harvey, for F. & C. Rivington, B & B. White, T. Longman, B. Law & Son, and 14 others in London], 1793. 2], xvi,256p., plates; 8

Author: John Gay
ISBN-10: 1170177441
ISBN-13: 9781170177440
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2010
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 7.44h x 9.68w x 0.66d