Shelfmark
Id5.2.11 - Id5.2.18
Author
Title
Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century. Consisting of authentic memoirs and original letters of eminent persons; and intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes. By John Nichols, F.S.A..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the author, by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street 1817-1858.
Physical description
8 v. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Note
Includes engraved frontispiece portraits of Daniel Wray (v.1); William Warburton and William Stukeley (v.2); George Hardinge (v.3); James Bindley (v.4); Joseph Gulston (v.5); William Gifford (v. 6); Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore (v.7); and John Nichols (v.8).
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Dates of publication: v.1-2: 1817; v.3: 1818; v.4: 1822; v.5: 1828; v.6: 1831; v.7: 1848; v.8: 1858.
Note
Volume 4 has the imprint "London: Printed for the author by John Nichols and Son ...". Volumes 5-8 have the imprint: "London, Printed by and for J.B. Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament-street, Westminster ...".
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Volumes 5 and 6 were published posthumously; two more volumes (7 and 8) were added by John Bowyer Nichols in 1848 and 1858 (cf. Dictionary of National Biography).
Note
Addenda and corrigenda in v.2. V.8 includes "Additions and corrections. By J.B. Nichols, F.S.A. 1857" (p. [613]-686).
Provenance
Plain label of Eton College Library, with red initials, on front pastedown of all volumes. Label of Grant & Bolton booksellers, Dublin on the upper flyleaf of volume 1 only.
Binding
19th-century polished ?calfskin over paste/millboards. Covers decorated with double gilt fillets to form a border, a blind-stamped roll made of tools, also making a border; the rest of the cover blind-stamped with a criss-cross of fillets; gilt rolls on board edges and turn-ins. Spine rebacked, decorated with gilt fillets and tools. Textblock trimmed and marbled. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing leaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
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English literature 18th century History and criticism.
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Authors, English 18th century Anecdotes.
Added entry--name
Nichols, J. B. (John Bowyer), 1779 - 1863 publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52722