Leighton Library has a 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes"

Added by Leighton Library at 05:17 on 01 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes" by English essayist, poet, playwright and politician Joseph Addison born #OnThisDay 1 May 1672 and Sir Richard Steele. Together they founded the daily publication The Spectator magazine in 1711. Addison also wrote the popular c...

Leighton Library has a 1731 first edition of the English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis"

Added by Leighton Library at 06:25 on 30 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1731 first edition of the English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis" ("The history of the Inquisition") by Dutch theologian and author Philipp van Limborch who died #OnThisDay 30 April 1712. This is still considered important nowadays for its meticulous...

Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by John Arbuthnot

Added by Leighton Library at 06:24 on 29 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by Scottish physician, satirist and polymath, John Arbuthnot who was born #OnThisDay 1667. He inspired Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and inv...