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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. 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) W014436 A continuation of: Mein, John. A state of the importations from Great-Britain into the Port of Boston, from the beginning of January 1769, to August 17th 1769 (Boston: Printed by Mein and Fleeming, 1769). Frequently attributed to John Mein; but Mein left America in November 1769. Consists of cargo manifests only, compiled by Thomas Irving. Cf. McCusker, John J. "Colonial civil servant and counterrevolutionary: Thomas Irving (1738?-1800) in Boston, Charleston, and London." Perspectives in American history 12 (1979): 328-335. The third of three known issues. Cf. Adams. A fourth issue, of which no copy has been located, may also have been printed. Cf. McCusker, p. 330-331. Error in paging: p. 79-88 misnumbered 78-87. "Account of goods re-shipt to Great-Britain."--p. [53]-5