Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-19

-, The work originally published under the title of
The NEW AMERICAN CYCLorEDTA, was completed
IN 1868, since which time the wide circulation which
1t has attained in all parts of the United States
and tho signal developments which have taken
place in every branch of science, literature and
art, have induced the editors and publishers to
submit 1t to an exact and thorough revision and TO
issue new edition entitled THE AMERICAN CY-
CLOP4EDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress of discov-
cry in every department of knowledge has made
new work OF reference an imperative want.
Inc movement of political affairs has kept pace
WIN the discoveries OF science, and their fruitful
application to the industrial and useful arts and
inc convenience and refinement of social life.
Great wars and consequent revolutions have oc.
CURED. involving national changes of peculiar mo-
ment. . me Gyii war OF our own country, which
work appeared has happily been ended, and new
course of commercial and industrial activity has
been commenced.
Large acccssons 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 partic-
ulars. Great battles have been fought and impor.
tant seges 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 authentic
history.
In preparing the present edition for the press, it
has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
prnS down the information to the latest possible
dates, ana to furnish an accurate account of the
most recent discoveries in science, of every
| fresh production in literature, and of the newest
inventions i'll the practical arts, well to give
Il 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-
ccs for carrying it on to Il successful termination.
None of the original stereotype plates have been
used, but every page has been printed on new type,
forming in fact a new Cyclopadia, with the same
| plan and compass as its predecessor, but with a
lar greater pecunlary expenditure, and with such
mr. nEift ion hny lpnn
gested by longer experience and enlarged knowl-
edge. :,
| The illustrations which are introduced for the
hrst time IN the present edition have been added
not for the sake of pictorial effect, but to give great.
T lucdy ana force to the explanations in the text
They embrace all branches of science and of natu.
raj history, and depict the most famous and re-
markable features OF scenery, architecture and art,
as well as the various processes of mechanics and
manufactures. Although intended for instruction
rather than establishment, pains have been
spared to insure their artistic excellence; the cost
oil their execution Is enormous, and it is believed
they Will find welcome reception as an admirable
feature of the Cyclopada and worthy of its high
This work is sold to Subscribers only, payable
on delivery of each volume. 1t will be completed
IN sixteen s large octave volumes. each containing
about $40 pages fully illustrated with several thou
sand Wood Engravings, and with numerous col.
ored Lithographic Maps
PRICE AND STYLE OF BINDING.
In extra Cloth per VOL, $500
In Library Leather, per vol, 500
In Half Turkey Morocco, per vol, 100
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.
".*Specimen pages of the AMERICAN CYCLoPE-
DIA showing type, Illustrations, etc, will be sent
gratis, on application.
FIRST CLASS CASyAssING AGENTS WANTED.
Address the publishers,
ID. APPLETON a. co.,
sac & 551 Broadway, N. Y.
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