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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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British Library
T073962
Anonymous. By Charles O'Brien. With a three page introduction; a variant has a twelve page introduction. The titlepage to vol.2 reads: 'A treatise on calico printing, theoretical and practical: .. ' and bears the imprint: 'Printed for C. O'Brien; and so
London: printed for and sold by Charles O'Brien; sold likewise by J. Bew; and by the booksellers of Manchester, Carlisle, Glasgow, Dublin, and other places where callico-printing is performed, 1789-92. 2v., table: ill.; 12°
