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Encyclopaedia londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature : comprehending, under one general alphabetical arrangement, all the words and substance of every kind of dictionary extant in the English language : in which the improved departments of the mechanical arts, the liberal sciences, the higher mathematics, and the several branches of polite literature, are selected from the acts, memoirs, and transactions, of the most eminent literary societies, in Europe, Asia, and America : forming a comprehensive view of the rise, progress, and present state, of human learning in every part of the world : embellished by a most magnificent set of copper-plate engravings ... / compiled, digested, and arranged, by John Wilkes, of Milland House ... ; assisted by eminent scholars of the English, Scotch, and Irish, universities.
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio AE5 .E585 v.1-24 v.1 v.2 v.3 v.4 v.5 v.6 v.7 v.8 v.9 v.10 v.11 v.12 v.13 v.14 v.15 v.16 v.17 v.18 v.19 v.20 v.21 v.22 v.23 v.24
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkes, John, of Milland House.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hitchcock, Fanny R. M. (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 24 volumes, leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 27 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the proprietor, by J. Adlard, Duke-Street, West Smithfield : Sold at the Encyclopædia Office, Ave-Maria-Lane, St. Paul's ; by J. White, Fleet-Street ; and Champante and Whitrow, Jewry-Street, Aldgate., 1810-1829.
- Notes:
- Imprint of v. 15-20 varies slightly; v. 21-24 have imprint: Printed for G. Jones at the Encyclopaedia Office.
- Compiled by John Wilkes with vols. 1-22 edited by J. Jones; v. 23-24 edited by G. Jones.
- Text in double columns.
- OCLC:
- 22364867
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