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:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Encyclopedias.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (18v. ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

The first American edition, in eighteen volumes, greatly improved.

Other Title:

Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798] (Copy-right secured according to law)

Notes:

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 British Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 33676

English Short Title Catalog, W31873.

OCLC:

642789155