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: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) P002253 Edited and published by Walter Ruddiman, junior. Year of publication from date of volume. Imprints vary slightly; imprint for v. 5 reads in part: printed by Wal. Ruddiman jun. W[illiam]. Auld, and Company. Running title line includes vol. number, month and year of issue. Printed in two columns; pagination and register of regular monthly numbers continuous within the volume; monthly calendars for 1758 have separate pagination and register. Errata for the year included at end of annual indexes. Includes political and social essays, history poetry, occasional music, maps, and a monthly list of new books; the monthly calendars of events in 1758 include current events in Europe, England and Scotland, with lists of naval engagements, promotions, births, marriages and deaths. From v. 3-6 (1759-1762) the monthly calendar section is integrated into the regular monthly issue. Description based on: Volume II. (MDCCLVIII.). Edinburgh [Scotland]: printed by Walter Ruddiman junior and Company, Morocco's-Close, Lawn-Market, -[1762]. 6 v.: ill., tables, maps, engr. music; 8 Degrees