1678 in literature

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  1. "The copy for the first edition of the First Part of The Pilgrim's Progress was entered in the Stationers' Register on 22 December 1677 ... The book was licensed and entered in the Term Catalogue for the following Hilary Term, 18 February 1678; this date would customarily indicate the time of publication, or only slightly precede it" [John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, James Blanton Wharey and Roger Sharrock, eds., Second Edition, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), xxi].
  2. Thomas Hobbes (May 1997). A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England. University of Chicago Press. p. 1. ISBN   978-0-226-34541-3.
  3. Samuel L. Macey (1 September 2010). Patriarchs of Time: Dualism in Saturn-Cronus, Father Time, the Watchmaker God, and Father Christmas. University of Georgia Press. p. 155. ISBN   978-0-8203-3797-5.
  4. Copeland, Nancy (2003). "Review of The Theatre of Aphra Behn". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 102 (3): 442–444. JSTOR   27712366.