Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature / constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems. The first American edition, in eighteen volumes, greatly improved. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862, donor.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (copy 1)

Minnick (donor) (copy 2)

Physical Description:

18 volumes ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature

Encyclopaedia britannica

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the Stone house, n4̊1, South Second street, 1798.

Notes:

Issued in parts, 1790-1797. Title-pages of the volumes, printed after completion of the work, are all dated MDCCXCVIII.

For History and description of this edition see Charles Evans, American bibliography, v.8 (1916) p.27-28, no.22486.

CONTENTS.--v. 1-18. Encyclopædia.--v. [19-21] Supplement to the Encyclopaedia (Philadelphia, Printed by Budd and Bartran for Thomas Dobson, 1803, 3 v.)

Based on the Encyclopædia brittanica.

Issued in parts, 1790-1797; title pages dated 1798; supplement issued in parts, 1800-1803.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Firstival: First Aerial Voyage," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2026.

Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.

Cited in:

Evans 22486

Evans 22486, 33676-93

Sabin 22555

Contains:

Encyclopaedia Britannica.

OCLC:

1829756