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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.
The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included.
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Harvard University Houghton Library
N012387
Anonymous. By William Hole. Edited, with an introduction and postscript, by Thomas Wilson, to whom the work is sometimes attributed. With a half-title.
Oxford: printed by W. Jackson: and sold by R. and J. Dodsley; J. Walter; J. Fox, London; and by the booksellers in Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, 1761. [4], iv, [6], v-143, [1],38,8p., plate: port.; 4�
