Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature ..
By: Compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages ... ; Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates. ...
Edition: The first American edition, in eighteen volumes, greatly improved.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 33676
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Notes: Based on the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798.

Edition statement transposed; precedes "Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates." on title page.

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Evans 33676