Transactions of the society, instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Author/Creator:

Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (London, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

Technology--History--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Technology.

Chemistry--History--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Chemistry.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (69 v.,plates ) diagrams ;

Annual

Vol. I (1783)-

Ceased with 1851.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard Street, and sold by Messrs. Dodsley, Lockyear Davis, White, Beckett, Johnson, Cadell, Elmsley, Walter, Richardson and Urquhart, and Debrett, [1785-1801]

Notes:

Printers' and booksellers' names vary: in v. 3: Dodsley, Lockyear Davis, White, Beckett, Johnson, Cadell, Elmsley, Walter, Richardson, and Debrett; in v. 4: T. Wilkins, Aldermaubury; in v. 7 T. Spillsbury, Snow-Hill; in v.8: T. Spillsbury and son, Snow-Hill.

A price of 4 shillings appears on v. 5; this increases to 5 shillings with v.9.

Vol.2 is bound with a portrait of the society's president; other volumes include engravings of classical figures or topics related to the society.

Contains notes on the transactions and progress of the society, list of members, catalogues of machines, list of rewards for progress in agricultural machines, articles on crops, chemistry, the encouragement of improvements, diagrams of machines, and a table of contents.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

A second edition was printed: 1789-<1793> (cf. T150184).

Finding Aid/Index:

Index by subject and names

Cited in:

Goldsmiths' Lib. cat, 37768

English Short Title Catalog, P3191.

OCLC:

508356730