Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, Return'd from a Thirteen Years Slavery in America, Where He Had Been Sent by the Wicked Contrivances of His Cruel Uncle. ... (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: ++++Huntington LibraryN007463Based on the life of James Annesley, notably on his claim to the Barony of Altham and Earldom of Anglesey. Sometimes attributed to James Annesley. In this edition the second line of the imprint ends "and"; the catchword on p.1 is "words"; and the headpiece on p.1 is an arabesque design with a shell center. Part the second was published in 1743 with the title: 'Memoirs of an unfortunate nobleman, in which is continued the history of Count Richard .. '; part the third was published in 1747, with the same title as the first part. With a half-title. The last seven pages contain advertisements.London: printed for J. Freeman, 1743. 4],277, 7]p.; 12