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... Read more

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: ++++British LibraryP003191Printers' and booksellers' names vary: in v. 3: Dodsley, Lockyear Davis, White, Beckett, Johnson, Cadell, Elmsley, Walter, Richardson, and Debrett; in v. 4: T. Wilkins, Aldermaubury; in v. 7 T. Spillsbury, Snow-Hill; in v.8: T. Spillsbury and son, Snow-Hill. A price of 4 shillings appears on v. 5; this increases to 5 shillings with v.9. Vol.2 is bound with a portrait of the society's president; other volumes include engravings of classical figures or topics related to the society. Contains notes on the transactions and progress of the society, list of members, catalogues of machines, list of rewards for progress in agricultural machines, articles on crops, chemistry, the encouragement of improvements, diagrams of machines, and a table of contents.London England]: printed by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard Street, and sold by Messrs. Dodsley, Lockyear Davis, White, Beckett, Johnson, Cadell, Elmsley, Walter, Richardson and Urquhart, and Debrett, 1783- 69 v., plates: diagrams; 21 cm. (8 ) Less