The new royal encyclopedia
Subtitle: or, Complete modern universal dictionary of arts and sciences on a new and improved plan : in which all the respective sciences, are arranged into complete systems, and the arts digested into distinct treatises : also the detached parts of knowledge alphabetically arranged and fully explained according to the best authorities, containing a digest and display of the whole theory and practice of the liberal and mechanical arts : comprising a general repository of ancient and modern literature ... including all the material information that is contained in Chamber's Cyclopedia, the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the French Encyclopædie ... a general circle of science and forms the most comprehensive library of universal knowledge that was ever published in the English language ... freed from errors, obsurities, and superfluities of other dictionaries
By: by William Henry Hall
Publisher: Printed for C. Cooke
Published: 1791
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Complete modern universal dictionary of arts and sciences.; Hall's encyclopedia.
Notes: Pages unnumbered.

Brit. Mus. Cat. gives date as [1788?] but the plates are dated 1788-1791.

Rare Book copy: the plates (including front.), together with dedication, preface, list of subscribers and directions to the binder, are bound separately as v. 4. The plates are not arranged in the specified order.

Rare Book copy: Three plates are lacking, two extra plates inserted.

Coleman O. Parsons in memory of Roland Baughman, 3 v. in 4