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Download or read book Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century written by John Nichols and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eight-volume set, published 1817-58 by the Nichols family, is a sequel to John Nichols' Literary Anecdotes (1812-15), and provides a useful source of biographical material on authors and publishers at a time when many of the literary genres we now take for granted were first being developed.

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