Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : Compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages ... Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates. ...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The first American edition, in eighteen volumes, greatly improved. |
| Series: | Eighteenth century collections online.
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| Online Access: | Full text online |
| Item Description: | Based on the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798. Edition statement transposed; precedes "Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates." on title page. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in publication statement. Reproduction of original from the British Library. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 18 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 4⁰. |