The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-01

AMBRlCAN. CYtLOPBDIA..
NEw REVISED EDITION.

NEw REVISED EDITIoN.
Entirely rewritten by the ablest writer's on every
subject. Printed from new type, and ~illustrat-
ed with Several Thousand Engrayings and Maps.
d. APPLETON q Co., 5i3 and jjl, Broadway,
N. Y.
The work originally published under the title
Of The INV AMERICAN CYcLoPEDIA was complet-
ed in 1868, sine, which time the wide circulation
which il 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 n new edition entitled TnR AMERICAN
CYCLOPKDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress Of dis
covery in every department of knowledge has
made n new work of reference an imperative
want.
The movement Of political affnirs 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
moment. The civil war of our own country which
was at its height when the last volume of the
old work appeared, has happily been ended, and
a new course of commercial and industrial activi-
ty has been commenced,
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the indefatigable explorers of
Africa.
The great political revolutions Of the last de-
cade, with the natural result of the lapse Of time,
have brought into public view a multitude Of new
men, whose names are in every ones mouth, and
Of whose lives every one is curious TO know the
particulars. Great battles have been fought and
important seiges maintained, of which the details
arc as yet preserved only in the newspapers or in
transient publications Of the day but which ought
now to take their place in permanent and authen
tic history.
In preparing the present edition for the press.
1t has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
bring down the information to the latest possible
dates, and to furnish an accurate account Of the
most recent discoveries in science, of every fresh
production in literature, and Of the newest in
%ventions in the practical arts, as we'll as to give
q succint and original record of tho progress of pc
litical and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and care
full preliminary labor, and with the most ample
resources for carving ii on to n successful termin-
alton.
None Of the original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page has been printed on
new type, forming in fact n new C~yclupedia, will
the same plan and compass as its predecessor, but
with a far greater pecunlary expenditure, and
with such improvements in its composition a
have been suggested by longer experience and en-
larged knowledge.
The illustrations which are introduced for thu
first time in the present edition have been addeC
not for their sake Of pictorial effect, but to giv'
greater lucidity and force to the explanations il
the text. They embrace all branches of science
and of natural history and depict the most famou
and remarkable features Of scenery, architecture
and art, as we'll as the various processes Of me
cAanics md manufactures. Although INTENDED
for instruction rather thun establishment, N
pains have been spared to issue their artistic ex
celleuce; the cost Of their execution is enormous
and II Ia believed they will End a welcome recep
tion as an admirable feature Of the Cyclopsdia
and worthy Of its high character.
This work Ia sold to Subscribers only, payAs!
on delivery Of each volume. 1t will be complet
ed in sixteen large octave volumes, each contain
ing about svo pages, fully illustrated with sevcr
oil thousand Wood Engravings, and with nuuer
Gus colored Lithographic Maps.
Price and Style Of Binding
In extra Cloth, per vol, 500
In Library Leather, per vol, 600
In Half Turkey Morocco, per vol, 100
In Half Russia, extra gilt, per vol, 500
In Full Morocco, antique gilt edges,
per vol, 1000
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Eleven volumes now ready. Succeeding vel
ume,, until completion, will he issued once in tw
months.
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PkDiA, showing type, illustrations. ETC., will /
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