The world, [ca. 1753].

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The world, [ca. 1753].

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Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, of a draft, with numerous corrections, of two satirical essays for the periodical The World, both by "Adam Fitz-Adam." The first essay addresses the proliferation of books, encouraging readers to explore ancient texts and deploring the modern mass of "gazettes, novels, lives, dying speeches, magazines, dictionaries." The author also imagines the reaction of "a Chinese or Indian" to the clutter of libraries in Europe, imagined as "vast waste tracts of land." In the second essay, building upon the first, the author imagines himself as an Inquisitor of the world of books to determine which books should be destroyed. Though these pieces did not appear in the periodical, they were later published in Walpole's Fugitive Pieces in 1758.

4 leaves ; 32 cm.

Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library

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