The History and Art of Printing

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.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting sculpture architecture music theater and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments catalogs of art objects comic operas and more are also included. ++++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 Library. T086116. With final two contents leaves. A reissue of ''A concise history of the origin and progress of printing'' (1770) with cancel titlepage; in some copies the original frontispiece and titlepage have not been excised making the pagination [16]502[4]p.. London : printed by W. Adlard and J. Browne; for J. Johnson 1771. [12]502[4]p. : ill ; 8