Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature ... [electronic resource] : Compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages ... Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates.

Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature ... [electronic resource] : Compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages ... Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates.

The first American edition, in eighteen volumes, greatly improved.

Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798] (Copy-right secured according to law)

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

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18v. : ill., maps ; 4⁰.

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.
Parentheses substituted for square brackets in publication statement.
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Evans, 33676
English Short Title Catalog, W31873.

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