Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-14

| THE work originally published under the title of
! The NEW AHEKICAS CYcLoPHDIA was completed in
1868, since which time the wide circulation which
It has attained in ali parts of the United States,
! and the signal developments which have taken
place in every branch of science, literature, and
/ have induced the editors and Publishers to sub
nit it to exact and thorough revision, and to is
sne a new edition entitled THE AMERICAN CYCLIC
! PGDIA.
Within the last ten wears the progress of discov-
! ery in every department of know ledge 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 aud
the nvenience and refinement of social life
Great wars and couSequent revolutions have occur
red, involving national cahnges of peculiar moment
| The civil war Of our own country, which at
! it's 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 knowledge
| have been made by the interchangeable explorers of
Africa.
The great political re olutons of the last decade
with the national result of the lapse of time have
| brought into poblic view a multitude of new men,
whose names are in every sne's mouth, and Of
whose lives every ore is curious to know the par
ticulars. Great battles havO been fought and i'm
poriant seiges maintained, of which the details are
! Is 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 autben-
| tic history.
| In preparing the present edition for the press,
!
bring down the information to the latest possible
dates, and to furnish accurate account of the
most recent discoveries in science of every fresh
production in literature, and Of the newest inven-
lions in the practical arts well TO give sue
enct and original record of the progress OF political
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 successful termination,
None of the original stereotype plates have been
used, but every page has been printed on new eye
-rffk fac nj nd ifs
deeessor, but with far greater pecuniAry expen-
diture, and with such improvements in its compo-
sition have been suggested by longer experience
and enlarged knowledge.
| The illustrations which introduced for the
| first time in the present edition have been added
not fer the sake of pictorial effect, but to give
greater lucidity and force the expanati in the
text. They embrace ali 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 in
struction rather than Establishment, pains have
been spared to Insure their artistic excellence
the of their execution is enormous, and it IL
believed they viii ind q welcome reception an
admirable feature Of the Cyclopeda and worthy
| OF its high character.
! This work is sold to Subscribers only, payable
j on delivery of each volume. IT will be completed
in sixteen large octave volumes, each containing
about 500 puges, fully illustrated with several
thousand Wood engravings, and with numerous
colored photographic Maps
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| In extre Cloth, per VOL, IS
In Library Leather, per VOL, sec
| In Half Turkey Morocco per vol, zoo
In Half Russia, extra gilt. per vol, 500
In Full Morocco antique, gilt edges, per vol 10 oC
In full Russia, per vol, 1906
Three volumes now ready. Succeeding volumes
untilcompletion will be iss ed once in two months
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rIA, showing type illustration, cot, will he seq
| gratis, application.
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