The imperial encyclopædia, or, Dictionary of the sciences and arts
Subtitle: comprehending also the whole circle of miscellaneous literature : in this work all the sciences are digested in a systematic form, and exhibited according to the present highly improved state of knowledge, and every term of art amply explained in alphabetical order : the whole including all the modern discoveries in astronomy, chemistry, electricity, galvanism, geography, domestic and political œconomy, &c. &c. &c. : with a general view of all empires, kingdoms, states, countries, mountains, seas, rivers, lakes, &c. &c. and a concise account of patriarchs, prophets, apostles, philosophers, poets, painters, authors and their works, heroes, lawyers, and statesmen : with every other topic of information essential to a work of this nature : in four volumes
By: by the Rev. W.M. Johnson, A.M. curate of Henbury, and chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Hutchinson and Thomas Exley, A.M. teacher of the mathematics, Bristol.
Contributors: Exley, Thomas, 1775-1855?
Series: Blake -- no. 1176
Publisher: Printed by and for J. and J. Cundee, and sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones ...
Published: 1812
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Other titles: New imperial encyclopaedia of arts and sciences; Imperial encyclopædia; Dictionary of the sciences and arts
Notes: Pref. dated 1812.

Vol. 1: [2], xiv, [2], 878 p.; v. 2: [2], 722 p.; v. 3: [2], 699, [1] p.; v. 4: [2], 896 p.; v. 5: [2] p., 182 [i.e. 215] leaves of plates (3 folded).

Advertising: v. 3, p. [1] (3rd group).

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library volume 5 lacks engraved title-page.