Cyclopædia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences
Subtitle: containing an explication of the terms, and an account of the things signified thereby, in the several arts, both liberal and mechanical, and the several sciences, human and divine : the figures, kinds, properties, productions, preparations, and uses of things natural and artificial : the rise, progress, and state of things ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial : with the several systems, sects, opinions, &c. among philosophers, divines, mathematicians, physicians, antiquaries, critics, &c. : the whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning
By: extracted from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. in several languages, by E. Chambers ... ; in two volumes
Contributors: Midwinter, D. (Daniel), -1757, bookseller; Senex, John, -1740, bookseller; Gosling, Robert, -1741, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The second edition, corrected and amended, with some additions.
Publisher: Printed for D. Midwinter, J. Senex, R. Gosling ... [and 14 others]
Published: 1738
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Early works to 1800; Science; Dictionaries; Arts
Other titles: Universal dictionary of arts and sciences
Work titles: Cyclopaedia
Notes: "Alston asserts that this is a 'third' London edition, announced in the press in Aug.-Sept. 1739; the next London edition, 1741, is the 'fourth'"--ESTC.

Signatures: volume 1: [1A]² a-f² g1 1B-1Z² 1Aa-1Zz² 1Aaa-1Qqq² 2A-2Z² 2Aa-2Zz² 2Aaa-2Iii² 3A-3Z² 3Aa-3Zz² 3Aaa-3Fff² 3Ggg1 4A-4Z² 4Aa-4Zz² *4Zz1 5A-5Z² 5Aa-5Oo² ; volume 2: pi1 5Pp-5Zz² 5Aaa-5Eee² 6A-6Z² 6Aa-6Ii² 7A-7R² 7S1 8A-8Z² 8Aa-8Bb² 9A-9Z² [superscript chi]10A² [superscript chi]10B1 10A-10Z² 10Aa-10Ee² 10Ff1 11A-11Z² 11Aa-11Ee² 11Ff1 *11Aa-*11Nn² 11Oo1 12A-12Z² 12Aa-12Bb² 13A-13Z² 12 Aa-13Ii² 13Kk1.

Pagination, v. 1: [4], xxv, [1009] pages, [12] leaves of plates (some folded) ; v. 2: [966] pages, [9] leaves of plates (some folded).

Engraved illustrations (plates).

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces.

Titles in red and black.

Text printed primarily in double columns.

Directions to the binder at end of preliminaries of volume 1.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), N47605

Alston, R. Bibliography of the English language from the invention of printing to the year 1800, III, 537

Collison, R.L. Encyclopædias, page 103

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1. A-K; title: volume 2. L-Z.