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: ++++ University of London's Goldsmiths' Library P006439 Editor: Alexander Dalrymple. Volume 2 apparently lacks a general title page; the four parts are bound with individual title pages. With a second title page in v. 1 for the first part, dated 1791. Issued originally in 8 parts, between 1791-1797; a ninth part, v.2 part 5, with additional material and an index, was projected but not published. This added part appeared with the reissued v. 1-2 in 1808, with new title and contents pages, but continuing pagination and register from the original. The new material of 1808 printed by Ballantine and Law. Vol. 1 imprint reads in part: Printed by George Bigg, and delivered by Mr. Elmsly, ... and by Mr. Chapman, .... Imprints include dates of publication. Imprints vary slightly; vol. 2, no.4 "printed by Edward Cox". Dates and number of vol. 1 are from first t.p. Vol. 1 includes a copy of the 1790 prospectus, an introduction by Alex. Dalrymple, dated 31 Dec. 1792, and a table of contents; no. 1-3 include individual introductions, dated 9 Apr. 1791-5 July 1792. Note at end of vol. 2, no. 4 reads: "N.B. No. 5 with the index which compleats vol. II. will speedily be published." Includes tracts and essays on eastern geography, history, and manners, with a selection from the Mahabharata, translated by Sir Charles Wilkins; a list of East India Company directors follows the introduction to the first volume. London [England]: 1793: printed by George Biggs: sold by P. Elmsly, Strand, and Mr. Chapman, East India House, [1793-] 2 v., plates: maps; 33 cm (4°)