The Town and country magazine; or Universal repository of knowledge, instruction, and entertainment. For the year ... Volume 8 of 27 (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: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)P002404Originated and edited by Archibald Hamilton. Contributors include Thomas Chatterton. With engraved general title pages. Imprints vary; imprints for 1792-1795 read: London, printed for the proprietors. Wrappers on monthly issues include contents notes. Printed in two columns. Pagination and register are continuous within each volume. Includes general essays, articles on the theater, poetry--both original and collected, a summary of public events, notices of new books, marriages, deaths and bankrupts, correspondence from readers, and a number of essays in series including: The Dreamer, The Philosopher, Advice to a sister, The Observer, The Termagant, The Poetical inspector, and The Knight-errant.London England]: printed for A rchibald]. Hamilton, junr. near St. John's-Gate, 1769- ]. 27 v., plates: ports.; 8?p ?s(21 cm.)