Antiquities of Great-Britain, Illustrated in Views of Monasteries, Castles, and Churches, Now Existing. Engraved from Drawings Made by Thomas Hearne. - Paperback

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 LibraryT140692Consists of fifty numbered plates, a frontispiece headed 'Antiquities of Great Britain. Vol.1', and a tailpiece, with accompanying letterpress in English and French. The plates were published between 1778 and 1786. With a list of subscribers.[London]: Printed by James Phillips, and published by the proprietors T. Hearne and W. Byrne. London, 1786. [112]p., plates; obl.4