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 Library T066625 Anonymous. By Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury. Vol. 1 dated 1744, vol. 2 dated 1743, 1745. Vol. 1 has divisional titlepages for: 'Treatise II. Viz. sensus communis: an essay on the freedom of wit and humour. In a letter to a friend. Printed first in the year M.DCC.IX.' (E1r, p. 49]); 'Treatise III. Viz. soliloquy: or, advice to an author. Printed first in the year M.DCC.X.' (M3r, p. 137); register and pagination continuous. Vol. 2 has an additional titlepage 'An inquiry concerning virtue, or merit. Formerly printed from an imperfect copy: now corrected, and publish'd intire. Printed first in the year M.DC.XC.IX.' ( pi]2r; p. i]), and a divisional titlepage for 'The moralists, a philosophical rhapsody. Being a recital of certain conversations on natural and moral subjects. Publish'd in the year MDCCIX.' ( chi]2r); register and pagination continuous. Vol. 3 has a divisional titlepage for 'Treatise VII. Viz. a notion of the historical draught or tablature of the judgment of Hercules, according to Prodicus, lib. II. Zen. sic] de Mem. Soc. Printed first in the year MDCCXIII.' (2D1r; between pages 284 and 311); register and text continuous despite pagination. Originally published as 'Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times'. In 'A bibliography of the Foulis Press' Gaskell states: Without imprints, but probably Foulis Press. Glasgow: R. Foulis] Printed in the year, 1743-5. 3v.; 12