Details

Titel

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 [Elektronische Ressource]

Auflage

The first American edition, in eighteen volumes, greatly improved

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street

Erscheinungsjahr

1798

Link zum Volltext

• Gale - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ZDB-1-ECC)

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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. - English Short Title Catalog, W31873. - Evans, 33676. - Parentheses substituted for square brackets in publication statement. - Reproduction of original from British Library
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