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 ...
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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: ++++ Harvard University Houghton Library N021142 Anonymous. By Charles Hornby. London: printed in the year, 1723. [2],89, [1]p.; 8???
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Fair. 1723 first edition s.n. (London), 3 3/4 x 6 inches tall hardbound, marbled paper-covered boards over leather spine and tips, 89 pp. Covers lightly soiled and quite rubbed and edgeworn, with chipping along board edges, especially at tips. 2 1/2-inch cracking to top front edge of leather spine, which appears to have been a crude replacement for the original. Volume gapes open slightly. Cracking between front and rear pastedowns and adjacent pages, with a crude repair to blank front free-endpapers along inside gutter. Vintage 3/4-inch stamps ('Edin SS Library'-perhaps Edinburgh Sunday School Library) to title page and first page of text. Edge-chipping to front free-endpapers, and the volume lacks the blank rear free-endpaper. Moderate to heavy soiling to title page and several other pages, not interfering with text. One-eighth-inch hole to top of first leaf of text, interfering with one word on the first line of text on page 2 ('the'). Scattered mostly light foxing throughout, with a bit of edge chipping to a couple of pages. Nonetheless, despite all these detractions, still a decent reading / reference copy of this scarce work, complete. The English Short Title Catalog locates only nine copies worldwide-four in the UK (National Library of Scotland, Oxford University Bodleian Library and University of London Senate House Library), and six in North America (two at Harvard and one each at University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Colorado, University of Texas and University of Toronto). Reference: Catalogue of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, 6255. ~S~ An anonymous work, credited to Charles Hornby (d. 1739), an English antiquary. In Rapin de Thoyras' An Abridgement of the History of England (Volume III, 1747), there is an entry at mid-January 1715, the year Hornby issued (also anonymously) his first English Advice to the Freeholders of England, a pro-Whig parody of Francis Atterbury's tract of the same title: 'A proclamation is published, offering a reward to any one who should discover the author or printer of a pamphlet intitled [sic] English Advice to the Freeholders of England. Charles Hornby, Esq. is later taken for it in custody.