Accounts Of Pennsylvania. Volume I. Volume 1 Of 1

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 revoluti... Read more

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: ++++Library of CongressW021207A collection of 17 pamphlets first published separately, and here reissued with collective title page, table of contents, and index. Includes accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania, of the excise collectors of the various counties, and of militia fines in Philadelphia, during the Revolution. Subsequent volumes evidently not published. The Advertisement (p. 3]) is signed: John Nicholson. Comptroller-General's Office. April 2d, 1785. Publishers' names supplied by Evans, who mistakenly gives date of publication as 1784. Philadelphia: Published by Hall and Sellers, 1785]. 1v. (various pagings); 8 " Less