The Entertainer. / By Charles Mercury, Esq.; ...
by See Notes Multiple Contributors
2020-12-31 06:54:21
The Entertainer. / By Charles Mercury, Esq.; ...
by See Notes Multiple Contributors
2020-12-31 06:54:21
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revoluti...
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)P002083'Charles Mercury' is a pseudonym. Title from caption. Title and issue number repeated as running title in each issue. Below title statement: To be continued every Tuesday. Imprint from colophon; imprint lacks date. Year of publication from dates of issues. Woodcut above title. At foot of colophon in square brackets: Price three-halfpence. Note at end of no. 12 announces, "I shall this day take leave of my readers; ... I take the liberty to recommend my fellow essayist Town connoisseur, as the properest person to contribute to the entertainment of the town; ..."London England]: printed by M. Mechell, at the King's-Arms, in Fleet-street, where letters to the author are taken in, 1754]. 12 v.; 31 cm (2)
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