Encylcopaedia; 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. ..
Contributors: Akin, James, 1773-1846, engraver.; Allardice, Samuel, d. 1798, engraver.; Barker, William, engraver.; Bowes, Joseph, engraver.; Clarke, Thomas, engraver.; Creed, William, engraver.; Jones, Benjamin, fl. 1798-1815, engraver.; Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846, engraver.; Ralph, William, engraver.; Scot, Robert, 1744?-1823, engraver.; Shallus, Francis, engraver.; Smither, James, 1741-1797, engraver.; Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver.; Trenchard, James, b. 1747, engraver.; Vallance, John, 1770?-1823, engraver.; Weston, Henry W., engraver.
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
Format: Microform
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.

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Evans 33676.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 33676)