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: ++++ British Library T039438 A prospectus was issued in 1737, with the title, 'Proposal for printing by subscription; Miscellaneous works, .. of Mr John Bancks. .. ', which contained pp.1-96 of vol.1 of the published text. Titlepage in red and black. London: printed by T. Aris, for the author; and sold by C. Corbett; J. Brindley; Mess. Gilliver and Clarke; J. James; Mess. Ward and Chandler [and their shops at York and Scarborough], 1738. 2v., plates: ill.; 8