Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-24

The work originally published under the title OF
The NEW AMERICAN CYCL0PEDIA, 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
art, have induced the editors and publishers to
submit i to an exact and thorough revision, and 10
issue new edition entitled THE AMERICAN Cl-
CLOPEDlA.
Within the last ten years the progress Of discOv-
cry in every department of knowledge has made "A
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 oc
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 comm need.
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
nave been made by the interchangeable explorers OF
Africa.
The great pol teal revolutions ofthe last decade,
with the natural result OF the lapse OF time, have
brought into public view n multitude of new men,
whose names are in every ones mouth, and OF
whose life every one ia curious 10 know the partic-
ulars. Great battles have been fought and lmpor-
tant segcs maintained, of which The details are as
yet preserved only in the newspapers or in the
transient publications OF the day. bu! which ought
now to take their place in permanent AMI authentic
history.
In preparing the present edition for the press, ii
has accordingly been the aim OF the editors 10
bring down The information to the latest possible
dates, and to furnish an aceuTlc account oil the
most recent discoveries in science, OF every
fresh production in literature and of the newest
inventions in the practical arts, rs well rs To give
a succnct and original record OF The progress o
political and historical events
The work mas been begun after long and careful
preliminary labor and with the most ample resour
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 new Cyclopndia, with the same
plan and compass as its predecessor, but with a
lar greater pccuniary expenditure, and with such
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gested by longer experience and enlarged khow-
edge.
The illustrations which are introduced for the
first time IN the present edition have been added
for the sake OF pictorial effect but TO give great
er ucdity and force to the explanations IN theteAt
They embrace all branches Of science and oil Datu-
raj history, and depict the most famous ana re-
markabe features OF scenery, architecture and art,
as " ell as the va ious processes OF mechanics and
manufactures. Although intended for instruction
rather than establishment, 70 pains have been
spared to insure their artistic excellence: the cost
OF their execution Is enormous, and 1t Is beiieved
they will find welcome reception as an admirable
feature OF the Cyclopada, and worthy of It's high
This work Is sold to Subscribers only, payable
on delivery OF each volume. 1t viii be completed
in sixteen large octave volumes each containing
about 500 pages fully illustrated with several thoI!-
sand Wood Engravings, and with numerous cot
ored LithoSraphic Maps.
PRICE AND STYLE OF BI>pISG.
In extra Cloth per VOL, $500
In Library Leather, per vol. 0A0
In Half Russia extra gilt per vol 800
In Full Morocco, antique, gilt edges, per vol, 1000
In Full Russia, per vol, lV.oJ
Three volumes now ready. Succeeding volumes,
until completion, Will be issued once in TWO
months.
s.*Specimen pages of the AMERICAN CYCLopf-
DA showing type, Illustrations. etc, will be sent
gratis, on application.
FIRST CLASS CANvAssISG AGENTS WANTED
Address the publishers,
n. APPLETON Is CO..
$40 & ISL Broadway N. Y.
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