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: ++++ National Library of Scotland N020964 Titlepages in red and black. Each volume has its own titlepage; that to vol.1, listing the contents of the volume, reads: 'Posthumous works in prose and verse', London, printed for S. Briscoe, and sold by R. Smith, G. Strahan, J. Brown, and J. Morphew, 1716; that to vol.2 reads: 'The second volume of the posthumous works of Mr. Samuel Butler', 3rd ed., London, printed for Sam. Briscoe, and sold by R. Smith and G. Strahan; J. Browne; J. Graves, and J. Morphew, 1715; that to vol.3 reads: 'The third and last volume of the posthumous works, written by Mr. Samuel Butler', 2nd ed., London, printed for Sam. Briscoe, G. Strahan, R. Smith, J. Brown, A. Dod, and J. Morphew, 1717. The dates of the individual titles vary from 1660 to 1716. London: printed for Sam. Briscoe, R. Smith, G. Strahan, W. Taylor, J. Brown, [and 8 others in London], 1717. 3v.: ill., port.; 12 Degrees