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A Radical's Books
The library owned by Samuel Jeake of Rye, nonconformist and local activist, was one of the most remarkable of its time. It is of particular importance in that relatively little information has hitherto been available about the ownership of books in the English provinces, or the reading habits of intellectuals who -- like Jeake --were outside London and university circles from which most surviving libraries have come down to us. The collection of some 1500 volumes includes an extraordinary assemblage of radical pamphlets from the English Revolution alongside works of theology, literature, scholarship and science. Other books reflect astrological and magical interests, and the collection also ...
An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century
A scholarly edition of An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century: Samuel Jeake of Rye, 1652-1699 by Michael Hunter and Annabel Gregory. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
A Compleat Body of Arithmetick, in Four Books, ... by Samuel Jeake, Merchant
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. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes...
The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye, 1640-1736
The 300 letters written by members of the Jeake family create a narrative of business and family life in 17th and 18th century England. They reveal the importance of kinship in ensuring business and family survival during religious and political upheavals, and provide a rare glimpse into the life and work of a 'middling-sort' woman, Elizabeth Jeake.
