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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:++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)P002222Edited by Ephraim Chambers (cf. NCBEL). Title and month of issue repeated as caption on first page of text. Below imprint: Price one shilling. Imprints vary; -Jan. 1743: "Printed for Jacob Robinson; and sold by T[homas]. Cooper"; from Feb. 1743-, "printed for Jacob Robinson" only. Recto running title repeats month and year of issue. Pagination and register continuous within each volume. Last page of each issue lists new publications for the month. Consists primarily of book reviews and literary news; includes booksellers' advertisements.London [England] : printed for T[homas]. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, and sold by J. and J. Fox in Westminster-Hall, and J. Jackson near St. James's-Gate, [1737-1743]. 84 v. ; 8°