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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 Library T226048 Each volume contains a volume titlepage in red and black (vol. 1 also having a general titlepage), plays with various imprints and with separate titlepages in red and black, pagination and register; all are dated 1735, except where stated: vol. 1: 'Hamlet', 1736; 'The orphan' 'Oroonoko'; 'The tragedy of Jane Shore', 1736; vol. 2: 'The mourning bride'; 'Othello', 1736; 'Venice preserv'd'; 'The revenge'; vol. 3: 'The fair penitent'; 'Macbeth', 1736; 'Theodosius'; 'The fatal marriage'; vol. 4: 'Cato'; 'The history of Timon of Athens', 1736; 'The unhappy favourites'; 'Eurydice', new ed.; vol. 5: 'The distrest mother'; 'Tamerlane'; 'Virtue betray'd', 5th ed.; 'The London merchant', 6th ed.; vol. 6: 'The provok'd husband'; 'The rehearsal', 13th ed.; 'Sir Courtly Nice'; 'The busie body', 5th ed., 1736; vol. 7: 'Love f