Best of
18th-Century

1717

Eloisa to Abelard


Alexander Pope - 1717
    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)T185435The booksellers' names appear to be fictitious. With a half-title.London: printed for T. Daniel, W. Thompson, and J. Steele, and A. Todd, 1758. [2],24p.; 12

L'Art de Toucher Le Clavecin. The Art of Playing the Harpsichord (French and English Edition)


François Couperin - 1717
    Halford's scholarly introduction includes a biographic