The Sun.
London, England, 1805-11-22 00:00:00

A NEW CYCLOPEDIA.

To RE COMPLETED IN TWELVE MONTHS:

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On Saturday, February the ist, will be published, in Q uarto)
- ' Price gs.. Parr'. at
NEW AND CONtPENDIOUS. DICTION-
A RN' 01' AR l's AND E Nt: ES, te• bp completed
within the year, by the pnbliCation, of one Part„ on the first
y ut every- subsequent Month; 'the Whole mliking twelve
Parrs, or two large and elegant Quarto Volumes,
,witli one
hundred Copperplates, by Mr. l 3 Ain andl'OßY/LR.•
• by G. G ItEGORY, 1). 1).
,Dolor in Philosophy and the,Arts,' and honorary Member
of-the Imperial tiniversity: of Mina; Member of the
Manchester and Newcastle Literary and Philosa`.
phiLal Societies ; Hanorrti;z' Mestsba of the
flood of Agriculture; tdisor of Essays
historical and Moral'; • the Economy
ONARYQf Nature, &c,
A DICTI
of ARTS and SCIENCES in a corn.
pctidious him), suiliciently copious without being prolix, at...
curate but not diffuse, .divested of all 'SuvertiunuS matter,
and exhibiting a clear but concise, view of the Present State uf
the various branches of human knowledge, has 'Doti- been a
most desirable object to the EngliSis Reader, • •
A pittionary is 'properly a Work ut reference, 'and not of
detail ; and those, who wish to became ailepta ill any one Art
or Science, will scarcely study it frimi•:lloLtiqt;lopiediit ex-
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elusively. . . , • ,
• That a complete view of the''Arts Ceienees.biay
:.• t,,
however be exhibited 0.11 0.44,V04.041i! t 11.411 is usual.,
ly attempted Will be obviinis, if'w. „ nsidcr that the CYcla-
psedia of Chambers was original 1y.5,401 in two vat oines
folio, large and open printing; that the iirst Edition of the
Encycloinedia firit4lllllCa extendedunly.tp three thin vohimes
quarto; and that many e*cellent WeritS of a similar kind,
ansl.not of a greater extent, htVe bCcil pllblisho ill foieign
Countries.. 'Plus retienehtnent also-of minty superrlitaiis and
useless articles, W1114;11 have latterly found their way into
Books of this deuription, will evidently cause a considerable
reduCtion in point of size, WithOUt in reality impairing rho
intrinsic v.tioe mut general utility of the Work,
-Should, therefore*, the execution not disappoint the bopes
and expectations at those whollave projeded the New Dic.
tionary of Arts and Sciences, the following are:the immediate
advailtages which they trust they may whit reason and ma.
desty promise to its Purchasers.
F".;;, ~f; will exhibit a Compendium ot all Human Know.
ledge, the; more lurstinorts because cleared of Fll extraneous
matter ; rather practical than speculative; and in which par.
ticular attention will be paid to the most useful Branches.
'Second, .will be of a convenient and comparatively par.
table size, ,calculated to lie un the Table of every 011(11011S
Personas a Batik.of 'constant re*rence.'.
Third, It will Ise printed :to as i i correspond, with the
quarto Edition of Dr. (obi:soles Dictionalyf and tht! pos-
sessors of both Works will thus have, in four quarto iolunies,
and at .a MACY= Expenee, alt the literary aid which the
English Student or Reader can possibly require..
The Work will be neatly printertou a new and elegant Bre-
vie; TYpe, east expressly tor-this purpose,' an superfine
wove Paper The •MiSC.CliatleaUs COptiCrplattd Win ;di
be engraved .cluedy from original I) raw ?rigs by Mt. Fi &AT it,
and the Mechanical Subjects by Mr. for. Tart. They, will
equal any Plates ever given to the Public in a Work of this
nature l, and those referred to in CACI% Part will be regularly
done, Up, with the corresponding Letter.press.
• Priured for, Richard Phillips. No. 6, BridAe-strect,
f 46,011, awl sold by all Booksellers and dealzrs in Books, to
whom balers art. Nip's:stet& ter by giVCII as early as possc.ile,