Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-18

| ETNHE WORK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
| | under the title Of The NEW AMERICAN CY-
| CLOP4EDIA was completed in 1868, since which
| time the wide circulation which It has attained
in 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 to submit it to
| an exact and thorough revision, and TO issue a
| new edition entitled THE AMERICAN CYCLIC
| P-EDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress of dis
| cOvery 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
cial life. Great wars and consequent revOlu-
tons have occurred, involving national changes
| Of peculiar moment. The civil war OF our own
country, which was at its height when the last
volume OF the old work appeared, has happily
been ended, and a new course of commercial
and industrial activity has been commenced.
Large accessiOnS TO our geographical knOwl-
edge have been made by the interchangeable ex-
pOrers of Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last de-
cade, with the natural result CT the lapse of
time, have brought into public view multitude
OF new men, whose names are in 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 as vet preserved only in
the newspapers or in the transient publications
of the day. but which ought now to take their
place in permanent and authentic history.
In preparing the present edition for the pFeSs,
it 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 II, the practical arts, as well as TO
give shccinct and original record OF the pro-
gresS of political and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and care
Ia
resources for carrying it on to a successful ter
mination.
None of the original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page has been printed on
sew type, forming in fact a new CyclOpRdia,
with the same plan and compass as its predeces-
sOr, but with far greater pecuniary eXpendi-
ture, and with such improvements in its cOmEC-
sition As have been suggested by Jorge, expert
ence and enlarged knowledge.
The illustrations hitch ere introduced for the
first tiiae in the present edition have been added
not for the sake Of pictorial effect, but to give
greater lUCidity and force to the explanations IA
the text. They embrace all branches of SCIENCE
and of natural history, ana ielicJ the most ia
nous aul remarkable features of scenery, arch
IectUVe, ami art well rs 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 vel
come reception as an admirable feature OF the
Cyclopedia, and worthy al its high character.
This work is sold 10 subscribers only, pay
able on delivery of each volume. II will be
completed in sixteen large octave volumes. each
containing about 800 pages, fully illustrated
with several thousand Wood Engravings, and
with numerous colored photographic Maps.
PRICE AND STYLE OF BINDING:
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In library Leather, per vol. ............... 90
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Nbl..- 10 VI
In Full Russia, per Northumberland IL ID
Three volumes now reaay. Succeeding vol
unaes, V,,ti, complexion, will be issued once in
two months,
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CLOP .EDIA, showing type, illustrations, etc,
will be sent gratis, on application.
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