OF THE

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY;

COMPRIZING

Biographical Memoirs

OF

WILLIAM BOWYER, 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, F. S. A.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

BY NICHOLS, SON, AND BENTLEY, AT CICERO'S HEAD,
RED-LION-PASSAGE, FLEET-STREET.

ΤΟ

JAMES BINDLEY, Esa. M. A. F. S. A.

SENIOR COMMISSIONER OF THE STAMP-OFFICE,

NOW ALMOST THE ONLY SURVIVOR

OF THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE FORMER EDITION,

THESE LITERARY ANECDOTES

OF MANY OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES,

ENRICHED BY HIS VALUABLE COMMUNICATIONS,

BOTH IN THE ORIGINAL AND THE PRESENT EDITION,

ARE, WITH THE TRUEST RESPECT, INSCRIBED,

BY HIS VERY FAITHFUL FRIEND,

AND MUCH-OBLIGED SERVANT,

J. NICHOLS.