Book Description

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: ++++ Cambridge University Library T221253 Intended as a proof as the initial 'Advertisement' leaf states on its verso: "The present impression of this treatise is not designed for public use: .. those gentlemen .. perusing these sheets, will please to consider the work as still in manuscript, and oblige .. with their corrections and improvements as soon as possible. The margins are made particularly large for that purpose. And it is proposed, that after a general revisal, the treatise shall be correctly and neatly printed, and published with expedition." The final unpaginated leaf is a 'Postscript' signed and dated: Josiah Tucker, rector of St Stephen's in Bristol. Bristol, July 10, 1755. The work was published in the same year as 'Elements of commerce, and theory of taxes'. [Bristol?, 1755] 174, [2]p.; 4°