The Scientific Magazine, and Freemasons' Repository, for ... of 2; Volume 2

Book excerpt: 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) P001892 Title page includes table of contents. Imprints vary slightly; May.-Dec. 1797 read in part: "and sold by H. D. Symonds." Portraits include those of prominent freemasons, royalty and other famous persons. Includes biographies of important masons, essays on moral and intellectual life, a selection of poetry, and a monthly chronicle of events, including foreign and parliamentary news, births and deaths, and bankrupts. Jan. 1797 issue begins with memoir of Catherine the Great of Russia. London [England]: printed and published by George Cawthorn, British Library, No. 132, Strand; and sold by Symonds, Paternoster-Row; and may be had of all the booksellers and newscarriers in town and country, [1797] v., plates: ill., ports, music; 8°