The Student - Containing Many Curious Essays ... in the Arts and Sciences; In Six Parts. (Paperback)

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: ++++<sourceLibrary>Bodleian Library (Oxford)<ESTCID>P006320<Notes>Editor: W. Hilton; named in no. 3-4. Most imprints lack dates; years of publication from reference sources. Imprints vary; no. 2 reads in part: "printed by J. McCreery, and sold by Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard," and dated: Nov. 1, 1798; no. 3-4 are: "printed by J. Lang, sold by Vernor & Hood"; some copies of v. 3-4 read "Vernor and Hood." Title pages for each issue include list of topics. Following issue no. in square brackets: To be continued annually. Price below imprint: One shilling and eightpence. Issue numbers from title. Folded plates are geometrical diagrams. Includes queries, essays, puzzles, mathematical and geometric problems, poetry, and literary selections in French and English.<imprintFull>Liverpool England]: printed by R. Ferguson, for the benefit of the contributors, and sold by Vernor & Hood, Birchin Lane, London, . <collation>v., plates (some fold.): diagr.; 17 cm (8 )