All the histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn [[electronic resource] ] : entire in one volume. Viz. ... together with the history of the life and memoirs of Mrs. Behn never before printed. / / By one of the fair sex. ; Intermix'd with pleasant love-letters that pass'd betwixt her and Minheer Van Bruin, a Dutch merchant; with her character of the countrey and lover: and her love-letters to a gentleman in England

• Record Nr.: UNISA996389681903316
• Autore: Behn Aphra <1640-1689.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Printed for R. Wellington, at the Lute in St. Paul's Church-yard, and are to be sold by R. Tuckyr, at the Golden Leg, the corner of Salisbury Street, in the Strand., M DC XCIX. [1699]
• Edizione: [The fourth edition :]
• Descrizione fisica: [8], liv, 464 p
• Altri autori (Persone): GildonCharles <1665-1724.>
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Dedication signed: Charles Gildon.; Imperfect: pages faded and stained with print show-through; G2-3 (p.99-102) lacking.; Each part except "The history of the life ..." and "Oroonoko: or, The history of the royal slave" has special t.p. with imprint date 1699; pagination is continuous.; Reproduction of original in: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
• Nota di contenuto: The history of the life and memoirs of Mrs. Behn / written by one of the fair sex -- The history of Oroonoko -- The fair jilt -- Agnes de Castro -- The lover's watch -- The ladies looking-glass to dress themselves by -- The lucky mistake -- Memoirs of the court of the King of Bantam -- The nun -- The adventure of the black lady.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0189

The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D / / by Sir John Hawkins ; edited by O M Brack, Jr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953948103321
• Autore: Hawkins John <1719-1789.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2009
• ISBN: 9786613253200; 9781283253208; 1283253208; 9780820342887; 0820342882
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (591 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BrackO M, Jr., <1938-2012.>
• Disciplina: 828/.609
• Soggetti: Authors, English - 18th century; Lexicographers - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published by J. Buckland, London, 1787.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Introduction -- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. -- Notes to the Text -- Textual Commentary -- List of Emendations -- Word-Division -- Historical Collation -- List of Cancellations in the 1787 First Edition -- Preliminaries to Volume I of The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787) -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's Life. Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. Hawkins was Johnson's friend and legal adviser and the chief executor of his will. He knew Johnson longer and in many respects better than other ; biographers, including Boswell, who made unacknowledged use of Hawkins's Life and helped orchestrate the critical attacks that consigned the book to obscurity. Sir John Hawkins had special insight into Johnson's mental states at various points in his life, his early days in London, his association with the Gentleman's Magazine, and his political views and writings. Hawkins's use of historical and cultural details, an uncommon literary device at the time, produced one of the earliest "life and times" biographies in our language. The Introduction by O M Brack, Jr., covers the history of the composition, publication, and reception of the Life and provides a context in which it should be read. Annotations address historical, literary, and linguistic uncertainties, and a full textual apparatus documents how Brack arrived at this definitive text of Hawkins's Life.