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Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century : comprizing biographical memoirs of William Boywer, printer, F.S.A., and many of his learned friends : an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century: and biographical anecdotes of a considerable number of eminent writers and ingenious artists : with a very copious index / by John Nichols ...

Accession number
PML 9006-14
Creator
Nichols, John, 1745-1826.
Published
London : Printed for the author, by Nichols, son, and Bentley, 1812-1816.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Notes
First edition, 1782.
Pedigree of Gale: v. 4, fold. geneal. tab.: p. 536.
Pedigree of the Marklands: v. 4, fold. geneal. tab.: p. 656.
"A genealogy of the family of Tindal": v. 9, p. 302-304.
Extra illustrated.
Preface to v. 7 signed: S.B. [i.e. Samuel Bentley].
Vol. 7 in 2 parts: pt. 1 (published 1913) contains indexes of v. 1-6, pt. 2 (published 1816) indexes of v. 8-9.
Vol. 8 has double frontispiece.
Includes His Of publick news and weekly papers : when they first began ; their progress, increase, and uses and abuses to the people (From the Harl. MSS. 5910) (in v. 4, p. 33-97) and On the first printed polyglotts : with some memoirs of Dr. Edmund Castell (in v. 4, p. 1-32)
Description
9 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Provenance
From the libraries of William Turner (1792-1867) and Sir William Augustus Fraser (1826-1898) with their book-plates; purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Bernard Quaritch, June 1906.
Binding
English 19th-century (ca. 1850) dark blue morocco, gilt tooled.
Classification
Department