The first bibliography of 18th-century English literature
26th April 2016
I’m sure that if you asked anyone “what was the first bibliography of eighteenth-century English literature?”, they probably wouldn’t guess that it was published in Berlin: The book was the brainchild of the great Enlightenment publisher (and Anglophile), Friedrich Nicolai. In 1789, he wrote a letter to Jeremias David Reuß (1750–1837), under-librarian at the […]
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