Transactions of the society, instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce.
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (London, England)
London : 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,
[1783-
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 volume 5; this increases to 5 shillings with volume 9 etc.
Volume 2 is bound with a portrait of the society's president; other volumes include engravings of classical figures or topics related to the society.
Volume 26 includes: An analytical index to their first twenty-five volumes.
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.
ESTC
Goldsmiths' Lib. cat,
Index by subject and names
A second edition was printed: 1789- (cf. T150184).
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Technology
Chemistry