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)P001921Edited by Richard Rolt and Christopher Smart (cf. NCBEL). Imprint from title page; imprints include year of publication. Title repeated as caption and running title. Wrapper title includes table of contents. Note below imprint in square brackets: To be continued monthly, price six-pence. Issues paginated continuously through the year. Includes contributions by Samuel Johnson, essays on poetry, articles on political or historical events, selections from other publications, new poetry, occasional music; monthly supplement includes calendar of current events, deaths, marriages and promotions. Description based on: May 1756. Number V.London [England]: printed for T[homas]. Gardner, at Cowley's-Head, facing St. Clement's Church, in the Strand; B. Davey and H. Law, in Avemary-Lane; S. Crowder and H. Woodgate, in Paternoster-Row; A. Dodd, at Temple-Bar; and the booksellers of Great-Britain and Ireland, [1756-1758]. v., plates: engr. music; 8 ?p ?s(23 cm.)