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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 LibraryN014295Each memorial has separate titlepage, pagination, and register. Includes: 'A memorial most humbly addressed to the sovereigns of Europe, on the present state of affairs, between the old and new world. London: first printed in 1780, and fourth edition 1784'; 'A memorial, in two parts. Originally intended to be presented to the King. Since published with an explanatory preface', London, 1784, with a half-title; and 'A memorial addressed to the sovereigns of America, by Governor Pownall. London: printed 1783, and again 1784', with a half-title and a final errata leaf.London: printed for T. Cadell, B. White, T. Payne. P. Elmsley, J. Walter, and J. Debrett, 1784. xx, viii;[2],127, [1];[4],58;[4],139, [3]p.; 8
