The British Mercury, or Annals of History, Politics, Manners, Literature, Arts, Etc. of the British Empire. ... by I.W. Von Archenholtz. Volume 3 of 3 (Paperback)

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 LibraryP006307Editor: Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz. Title pages are engraved. Title page includes vignette of infant Mercury in flight, signed: Tringham scp: Imprints lack dates; years of publication from designations. Individual issues in each volume have caption titles, followed by isse number, place and date of publication. Number and date repeated on running title line. Note at end of v. 17, no. 25 (18 June 1791) reads in part, "that the publication of this paper will be concluded with the next no." Continuous pagination and register in each volume. Includes news from Britain: politics, legal affairs, court gossip, art and theater reports, new books, anecdotes, poetry, general news and advertisements. Description based on: Vol. II. for 1787.Hamburg Germany]: printed for the editor and sold in commission by B.G. Hoffman, - 1791]. v.; 19 cm. (8)