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, TO 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. |