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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: ++++British LibraryT223597Drop-head title. The marbled covers of the British Library copy bear a cover label: 'Description of Cambridge'. A reissue of the 'Plan of the description, being a useful and intelligent guide through the University of Cambridge, in two tours', with a slip of paper with the printed words Harraden's descriptive pasted over Plan of the description, being a useful and intelligent; this slip of paper in another reissue is blank. The 'Plan of the description' and its two reissues are all themselves reissues of Richard Bankes Harraden's 'Description of Cambridge' published in Cambridge in 1800; all reissues have cancel pp. i-ii with drop-head titles. Cambridge, 1800?]. ii,40p., plates: map; 8