Mémoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire de la république des lettres en France, depuis M.DCC.LXII jusqu'a nos jours; ou journal d'un observateur, ..

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)N060522Anonymous. By Louis Petit de Bachaumont; continued by M. F. Pidansat de Mairobert and others. In this edition the imprint date is beneath a single rule, the words 'EN FRANCE' are in solid letters, and the rule above the imprint date ends under the 'O' of Adamson. All volumes dated 1784 except: vol. 8, dated 1785, vol. 12, dated 1788, and vols. 19-21, dated 1783 (MdAN). The imprint is false; printed on the continent, possibly in Amsterdam.Londres [i.e. Amsterdam?]: chez John Adamson, 1783-88. vols.1-14,17-24; 12°