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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) P003406 Mostly in verse. Portion of title and date of issue repeated as running title. Imprint for no. 1 includes year of publication; later imprints lack dates. Below imprint in square brackets: Price only three-pence. Issue date below title; issue number above imprint. Note follows issue number on no. 1-14: To be continu'd monthly. Note in no. 1: each issue intended to be published on the first day of the month following. No. 15 (Dec. 1766) has note: Being the last. In two columns with continuous pagination. Light, comic, romantic verse, with jokes, puzzles and anecdotes. London [England]: printed and sold by S. Bladon, in Pater-noster-Row; J. Williams, in Fleet-Street; J. Kingman, near the Royal-Exchange; by most booksellers; and by the persons who sell news, 1765.-[1767]. 15 v.; 21 cm (8°)