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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) P002492 Edited and chiefly written by: George Duckett, with contributions from Thomas Burnet, Edward Roome, and others. Title from caption. Engraving at head of title has motto: "Olim truncus eram." Imprint from colophon; imprints lack dates. Years of publication from dates of issues; some dates given according to Lady Day dating. Imprints vary; some issues have imprint reading in part: "Printed by W. Wilkins in Little Britain". Printed in two columns on single half-sheet; text begins with factotum initial. Consists of satirical attacks on the Pope, the Catholic Church, the Inquisition, and the Stuart dynasty, the author professing to be in flight from Rome to reach the land of free speech. Includes satiric essays on English manners, customs and morals. London [England]