Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-25


HIHE WORK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
! under the title of THE NEW AMERICAN CY-
CLOP.EDIA was completed in 1868, since which
time the wide circulation which it has attained
i'll all parts OF the United States and the signal
developments which have taken place IN every
branch Of science, literature, and art, have in
duced the editors and publishers 10 submit it to
an exact and thorough revision, and to issue a
new edition entitled THE AMERICAN CYCLIC
P-EDIA.
Within the last ten wears the progress of dis
cOverv in every department of knowledge has
made new work of reference an imperative
want.
The movement of political affairs has kept
pace with the discoveries of science, and their
fruitful application To the industrial and useful
| arts and the convenience and refinement of so
| cal life. Great wars and consequent revolt
| lions have occurred involving national changes
OF peculiar moment. The civil war of our own
| country, which was ut its height when the last
| volume of the Old work appeared. has happily
been ended, and new course of commercial
| and industrial activity has been commenced.
| Large accessiOns to our geographical knowl-
| edge have been made by the interchangeable eX-
| plOrers of Africa.
| The great political revolutions of the last de-
| cade, with the natural result Of the lapse of
| time, have brought into public view multitude
| of new men, whose names are i'll every ones
| mouth, and of whose lives every one Is curious
! to know the particulars. Great battles have
| been fought and important sieges maintained,
OF which the details are as yet preserved only in
the newspapers OF III but lTdtlsltub
| of the day, but which ought now TO take their
place in permanent and authentic history.
In preparing the present edition for the press,
il has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
bring down the information to the latest possible
| dates and to furnish an accurate account of the
| most recent discoveries in science, of every
fresh production in literature, and of the newest
inventions in the practical arts, as well as TO
| give succinct and original record of the pro-
| gress of political and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and care
| full preliminary labor, and with the most ample
| resources for carrying it on to successful ter
| minatOn.
None of the original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page has been printed on
| new type, forming in fact new Cyclopeedia,
with the same plan and compass as its predeces-
sOr, but with far greater pecuniary eXpendi-
| ture, and with such improvements in its compo-
| sitiOn rs have been suggested by longer expert
| ence and enlarged knowledge.
The illustrations which alc introduced for the
first time in the present edition have been added
not for the sake OF pictorial effect, but to give
| greater ucdity and force to the explanations in
| the text They embrace all branches of science
| and of natural history, and depict the most IA
nous and remarkable features of scenery, arch
itecture and art, well as the various processes
OF mechanics and manufactures. Although in
tended for instruction rather than embelliSh-
ment no pains have been spared to insure their
artistic excellence; the cost of their execution IS
enormous, and it is believed they will find a well
come reception rs an admirable feature OF the
Cyclop;eda, and worthy of its high character.
This work is sold to subscribers only, pay
able on delivery of each volume. 1t will he
completed in sixteen large octave volumes, each
containing about 800 pages, fully illustrated
with several thousand Wood Engravings, and
with numerous cOlOred Lithographic Maps.
PRICE AND STYLE OF BINDING:
In extra Cloth, per vol....................S 50 90
In Library Leather, per vol................ 8 90
In Half Turkey Morocco, per YOl.......-.. 90
In Half Russia, extra gilt, per YOl......... 90
In Full Morocco, antique, gilt edges, per
Vol. ~ w
In Full Russia, per vol. ..-..-........ III w
Three volumes now ready. Succeeding vol
umes, until completion, will be issued once III
two months.
#s#Specimen pages OF THE AMERICAN CY-
cLoP EBIA, showing type, illustrations, etc.,
will be sent gratis, on application.
First-cIaSs Canvassing Agents wanted.
Address the Publishers,
ID. APPLETON q CO..
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