Beeton's encyclopædia of universal information ...
Contributors: Emerson, George Rose.
Publisher: Ward, Lock and Co.
Published: 1879
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Table of contents: title: v. 1-2. Geography, biography, and history. Containing descriptions of every country and town of importance in the old and new worlds and colonies; biographies of eminent persons of all times; historical associations; Egyptian, Greek, Roman, oriental, and Scandinavian mythologies; and pronunciation of names. New ed. Enl., cor., and rev. to the latest date ... by George R. Emerson.; title: v. 3-4. Science, art, and literature. Containing a complete summary of the moral, mathematical, physical, and natural sciences; a plain description of the arts; an interesting synopsis of literary knowledge; with the pronunciation and etymology of every leading term.