Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-03-10

THE work originally published under the title of
! THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLoPaDIA was COMPLETED in
| 1868, since which time the wide circuI ion 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 sub.
nit II to an exact and thorough revision and to is
/ she new edition entitled THE AMERICAN CYCLIC
/ PeDIA.
Within the last ten wears the progress of discoy-
| cry in every department of know ledge has made a
new work of reference imperativ want
! The movement of political affairs has kept pace
with tho discoveries Of science, and their fruitful
application to the Industrial and useful arts and
tic convenience and refinement of social life
Great wars and consequent revolutions have occur
red, involving national cahnges of peculiar moment
| The civil war of our country, which 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 commenced.
Large sccessons to geographical knoygled 4e
have been made by the interchangeable explorers of
Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last decsoe
with the national result OF the lapse of time bav
brought into pobiic view multitude of new mon
whose names are in every oue's mouth and of
whose lives every ore is curious to know the mar
tcnlars. Great battles have been fought and i'm
portant seiges maintained of which the details are
as yet preserved only in the newspapers or in the
transient publications Of the day, but which ought
now to take their place in permanent and anthem
tic history.
In preparing the present edition 70, the press
it has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
bring down the information to the latest possible
dates, and to furnish accurate account of the
most recent discoveries in science, of every fresh
prod ucton in literature, and of the newest iuyen-
tons in the practical arts well as to give suc-
cnet and original record of the progress of poIieal
and historical events
The work has been began after long and careful,
preliminary labor, and with the most ample resour-
ces for Carrying it on TO a successful termination
None of the original stereotype plates have been
used, but every page has been printed on new Cvc-
lopadia, with fee same plan and compass as its pre-
decessor but with far greater pecuniary exreu.
diture, and with such improvements in its compo-
siton as have been suggested by longer experience
and enlarged know ledge.
The illustrations which are introduced for the
first time in the present edition have been added
not fer the sake of pictorial effect, but to rive
greater lucidity and force TO the explanation in the
text. They embrace all branches CT science and
OF natural history, and depict the most famous and
remarkable features of scenery architecture and
art as well as the various processes and mechan-
les and manufactures. although intended for ill.,
struction rather than embelis hment, no pains have
been spared to insure their artistic excellence:
the cost of their execution is enormous and it is
believed they will find welcome reception as an
admirable feature of the Cyclopadia and worthy
OF its high character.
This work is sold to Subscribers only. pavable
on delivery of each volume. 1t will be completed
in sixteen large oetaro volumes, each containing
about 500 puges, fully illustrated with several |
thousand Wood engravings, and with numerous
colored photographic Maps
Price and style OfBinding
In extEe Cloth, per VOL, $500 |
In Library Leather. per vol, 500 |
In Half Turkey Morocco. per vol, 700
In Half Russia, extra gilt. per VOL, 500 /
In Full Morocco, antique, gilt edges per vol 10 90
In full Russia, per vol, 1000
Three volumes now ready. Succeeding volumes
until completion will be issued once in two months
4*sFSpeeimen pages of the AMERICAN CYcLoPa-
rIA, showing type, illustration, ect., viii lie sept
gratis, on application.
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