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Publishing	Lucy Hutchinson	The editor of the first, lavishly-produced edition of this history recommended it particularly to female readers, as more entertaining than most novels. He also silently cut from it about 9,000 words, besides tinkering with the...

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17 February 1776

Edward Gibbon published the first volume of his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; its mockingly sceptical fifteenth and sixteenth chapters caused a storm of controversy.

Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.

46 (1776): 365

Pocock, John Greville Agard. “The Ironist”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 13-17.

1904

Publisher J. M. Dent began planning the Everyman's Library series, reprints of classic texts (including biographies, treatises of all sorts, plays, poems, travel and adventure writing) with introductions by experts.Everyman

Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.

194

Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.

81, 84

Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.

169

Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.

February 1906

Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint 1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus , Shakespeare , Jane Austen practically complete,

Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.

169

and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ...

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