Leighton Library has 2nd edition of 1755/6 of "A Dictionary of the English Language" by Dr Samuel Johnson

Added by Leighton Library at 06:47 on 18 September 2024

The Leighton Library has 2nd edition of 1755/6 of "A Dictionary of the English Language" by Dr Samuel Johnson, who was born #OnThisDay 18 September 1709. It contained explanations & meanings for 40,000 different words and had taken him almost 9 years to compile. It is viewed as among the most influe...

Leighton Library has a 1777 edition of "Letters on the study and use of history" by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Added by Leighton Library at 12:09 on 16 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1777 edition of "Letters on the study and use of history" by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, who was born #OnThisDay 16 September 1678. He wrote this book while residing principally at the château of Argeville near Fontainebleau in France (printed privately before...

Leighton Library has 1622 first edition of "Monarchiæ Ecclesiasticæ" by John Floyd

Added by Leighton Library at 07:50 on 15 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1622 first edition of "Monarchiæ Ecclesiasticæ" by English theologian and educator, who was known as a controversialist and was frequently arrested, John Floyd, who died #OnThisDay 15 September 1649

Leighton Library has 1533 first edition of "De occulta philosophia" by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

Added by Leighton Library at 07:33 on 14 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1533 first edition of a book on the occult, which was condemned as heretical, "De occulta philosophia" by German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier & theologian Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim who was born #OnThisDay 14 September 1486. He was considered ...

Leighton Library has 1636 edition of "Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne" by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Added by Leighton Library at 07:09 on 13 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1636 edition of "Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne" (said to contain some of the most influential essays ever written) by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance) who died #OnThisDay 13 September 1592. He is known ...