Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-07
New Revised Edition.

The work originally published under the title of
The NEW AMERICAN CfCLOPKDIA, was completed
IN 1858, 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 induced the editors and publishers to
submit it to an exact and thorough revision and to
issue new edition entitled THE AMERICAN Cr-
CLOP-EDIA.
Within the las. ten years the progress of discoy-
cry 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 social life.
Great wars and CONSEQUENT revolutions have &C.
cured involving national changes of peculiar mo-
was at 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 CONNIE need.
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
nave been made by the interchangeable explorers OF
Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last decade,
with the natural result Of the lapse of time, have
brought into public view multitude of new men,
whose names are in every ones mouth, and OF
whose life every one is curious TO know the partc-
ulars. Great battles have been fought and impor-
tant sieges maintained, OF which The details are
yet preserved only in the newspapers or in the
transient publications OF the day, but which onght
now to take their place in permanent and authentic
history.
In preparing the present edition for the press it
has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
bring down the information to the latest possible
dates, and to furnish an aceuraie account of the
most recent discoveries in science, of everv
fresh production in literature, and OF the newest
inventions in the practical arts, as well as to give
a succinct and original record OF the progress OF
political and historical events.
The work mas been begun after long and careful
preliminary labor, and with the most ample resour
ces for carrying it on to successful termination.
None of the original stereotype plates have been
used, but every page has been printed on new type
| forming in tact a new Cyclopadia. with the same
| plan and compass as its predecessor, but with a
| far greater pecunary expenditure, and with such
| s
gested by longer experience and enlarged knowl
| edge.
| The illustrations which are introduced for the
| first time in the present edition have been added
not for the sake OF pictorial effect but to give great
lucidity and force to the explanations in the tent
They embrace all branches of science and of natu
| raj history, aud depict the most famous and re-
markable features OF scenery, architecture and art
AS we'll as the various processes OF mechanics and
| manufactures. Although intended for instruction
1 rather than establishment, no pains have been
spared to insure their artistic excellence; the cost
oi their execution Is enormous, and it is believed
they will find welcome reception as an admirable
feature OF the Cycop9dia, and worthy of its high
This work is sold to Subscribers only, payable
on delivery OF each volume. 1t will be completed
about 500 pages fully illustrated with several thou
| sand Wood EngraVings, and with numerous col.
ored Iithographic Maps.
PRICE AND STYLE OF BINniNG.
In extra Cloth, per vol, 800
| In Library Leather per vol, SEQ
| In Half Turkey Morocco, per vol, 200
In Half Russia, extra gilt, per vol, 500
In Full Morocco, antique, gilt edges, per vol, 1000
In Full Russia, per vol, 1000
Three volumes now ready. Succeeding volumes,
until completion, will be issued once in two
months.
| +.tSpecmcu pages of the AMERICAN ClCLoPE-
Ola, showing type, Illustrations, etc, VIII be sent
gratis on application.
FIRST CLASS CANvAssISG AGENTS WANTED.
Address the publishers,
ID. APPLETON & co.,
sac & 55l Broadway, N. Y.
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