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by Roland Fréart (Author)
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.
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British Library
T118307
Translated and edited by John Evelyn. With a half-title. The pagination of the first part is irregular, bit the text is continuous. 'An account of architects and architecture, ..' has a separate titlepage dated 1706, and separate pagination and registe
London: printed for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, B. Took, and D. Midwinter, 1707. 22],115, 1]; 6],75, 1]p., plate: ill., port.; 2
