Encyclopaedia Britannica : or, a dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; ... The third edition, in eighteen volumes, greatly improved. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates. ...
Edinburgh : printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar,
1797.
Vols. 1-12 were edited by Colin Macfarquhar; vols. 13-18, by George Gleig.
Volume 8 has 2 pages from other volumes bound at the end -- Volume 9 is missing plates 248, 250, 252, 253, 259 and 262-265 and there are 4 pages from other volumes bound at the end -- Volume 12 is missing plates 312, 320-22 and 334-336 -- Volume 17 is missing plate 450 and pages 287-288 of Optics from another volume inserted.
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Alston III.563