Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature [electronic resource] / Compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages ... ; Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates
- Bib ID:
- 3384103
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/33676
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- Edition:
- The first American edition, in eighteen volumes, greatly improved.
- Description:
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- Philadelphia: : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street., M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798] (Copy-right secured according to law.)
- 18 v. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. (4to)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 33676.
- Notes:
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- 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 imprint transcription.
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Cited In:
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- Evans 33676
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 116
- Reproduction:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 33676). Mode of access : World Wide Web.
- Subject:
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Place:
- United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Akin, James, approximately 1773-1846, engraver
- Allardice, S. (Samuel), engraver
- Barker, W. (William), active 1795-1803, engraver
- Bowes, Joseph, engraver
- Clarke, Thomas, engraver, engraver
- Creed, William, engraver
- Jones, Benjamin, active 1798-1815, engraver
- Lawson, A. (Alexander), 1773-1846, engraver
- Ralph, William, engraver
- Scot, Robert, 1744?-1823, engraver
- Shallus, Francis, engraver
- Smither, James, 1741-1797, engraver
- Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver
- Trenchard, James, 1747,-, engraver
- Vallance, J. (John), 1770-1823, engraver
- Weston, Henry W, engraver
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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