Encyclopaedia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, : compiled upon a new plan. In which the different sciences and arts are digested into distinct treatises or systems; and the various technical terms, &c. are explained as they occur in the order of the alphabet. Illustrated with one hundred and sixty copperplates. /
Smellie, William,1740-1795.
Bell, Andrew,1726-1809.
London: : Printed for John Donaldson, corner of Arundel Street in the Strand.,
1773..
An issue which uses the sheets of the first edition published in Edinburgh in 1771, with new preliminaries and a new preface.
With a half title in each volume.
Edited by William Smellie. The engravings are by Andrew Bell.
ESTC
Provenance: With the contemporary armorial bookplate of Robert Rous on the front paste-down of each volume.