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ENCYCLOPZDIA BRI rANNICA.

On Monday, Feb. 7, 1873, will be published, handsomely printed
in co. with a greatly improved set of Engravings, price les.
boards, Voi. I. Part I. of
ENUYCLOPZDIA BRITANNICA ; or, a Dic-
tionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature.—
Fifth Edition, greatly improved.
Edinburgh : Printed at the Encyclopzdia Office, for Archibald
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••• The plan and execution of the Encyclopedia Britannica
have now received the decided approbation of the public fur
more than 40 years. The publication of Four Esiitions, with
successive improvements during that period, and the sale of not
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In the Fifth Edition, now offered to the Public, it Is Intended
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original body of the work, a Dissertation will be prefixed, on a
plan analagout tto that of the Discomrs Prellithiaire of D'Alembert
prefixed to the !french Encyclopedic, and justly regarded as one
of the great ornaments of that celebrated work.
In the composition of this part of the work, the Proprietors
have the high gratification of being able to state to the public.
that they have reason to expect the assistance of Mr. Dugald
Stewart, on Moral and Political Philosophy; Professor Playfair,
on Mathematics and Physics; and Sir Humphrey Davy, on thi;
Philosophy of Chemistry.
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published on the first day of each month, till the.whole be com-
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advanced, purchasers may depend on a regularity of publication,
which has not hitherto attended any similar undertaking. The
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Sciences, Arts, and Manufactures, may be brought down to the
latest date ; an advantage which similar undertakings, published
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