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. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ 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: ++++ National Library of Scotland T230355 Both volumes with half-titles, general titlepages and volume titlepages, vol. 1 being 'The history of Charles XII' and vol. 2 'The history of the Russian empire under Peter the Great'. Vol. 1 has an initial leaf entitled 'Proposals for printing by subscription', dated: April 27, 1769; this includes instructions to the binder to discard it. Originally intended to be part of a 20-vol. set collecting Voltaire's works, to be issued by subscription, a volume a month publishing schedule, but, as the 'Advertisement' at end of vol. 2 states, this plan was in trouble due to a lack of subscribers to finance the remaining volumes. The two volumes were then reissued individually with the general titlepages cancelled. Edinburgh: printed by Martin & Wotherspoon. And for James Dickson, 1769. 2v.; 12 Degrees