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 ...
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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 LibraryT113187Glasgow: printed by Robert Urie, for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1749. xvi,319, [1]p.; 12
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Add this copy of The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq; [of to cart. $67.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
Add this copy of The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq.; of to cart. $147.99, fair condition, Sold by Resource Books, LLC rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from East Granby, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1749 by Robert Urie, for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour.
Publisher:
Robert Urie, for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour
Published:
1749
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
11855321902
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Fair. Glasgow, Scotland: Robert Urie, for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1749. 1749 edition, rebound in 20th century blue buckram cloth with gilt spine lettering, new endleaves, 319 pages. Covers lightly rubbed, contents age-toned but clean with name and pencil markings on title page, first three pages chipped at the edge without paper loss, small chip to side of final page with very minor loss of text, minute old dampstains to far outer margins throughout much of the book. Hard Cover. Fair. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall.
Add this copy of The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq. of Saltoun to cart. $295.00, very good condition, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1749 by G. Hamilton and J. Balfour.
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Very Good. 16mo. in full original calf, hubbed spine with gilt lettered label and fleurons in compartments. xvi (advertisment, biographical essay and contents) + 319 pp. Generally very good, boards somewhat bowed and dulled, small chips to the spine. The title page has a narrow cut beneath "Political Works" from excision of the last name of a previous owner ("Wm" still appears to the left). Interior embrowned here and there and with a bit of scattered foxing. Andrew Fletcher (1655-1716) was a Scottish politician and writer known for his oppostion to the combination under the same monarchy of England and Scotland. He was exiled for fostering insurrection in 1683 but later returned to seve in the Scottish parliament during the reign of Quuen Anne. This volume contains seven pieces: " A Discourse of government with relation to militias", " Concerning the affairs of Scotland written in the year 1698", "converning the affairs of Spain, written in the month of July 1698", "A speech upon the state of the nation in April 1701", "Sppeched by a member of Parliament which began at Edinburgh the 6th of May, 1703", and "An account of a conversationconcerning a right regulation of governments for the common good of mankind..."
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