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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.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)
P002783
Compiled and edited by James Anderson. Caption and section titles vary. Early monthly issues have colophons; later, volumes have single colophon preceding first index leaf. Colophon reads in part: "Printed by T. Bensley." With title page vignette. Direction line of each issue has volume number. With errata notes and list of plates at end of volume index. Issue numbering is consecutive from volume to volume. Each issue is divided into three sections, some unpaginated, others with continuous pagination and repeated designations. In first two numbers the 'Recreations in art and literature' are followed by: 'Recreations in natural history' and 'Recreations in agriculture'. The sections of each issue in v. 2 have been rearranged and the caption titles altered. Section titles are self-explanatory.
London [England]: printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; and sold by James Wallis, no. 46, Paternoster Row; and R. H. Evans (successor to Mr. Edwards), no. 26, Pall Mall, 1799-1802. v., plates: ill.; 8°
