Transactions of the society, instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce [electronic resource].
1785
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Transactions of the society, instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce [electronic resource].
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London [England] : printed by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard Street, and sold by Messrs. Dodsley, Lockyear Davis, White, Beckett, Johnson, Cadell, Elmsley, Walter, Richardson and Urquhart, and Debrett, [1785-1801]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
Description
69 v.,plates : diagrams ; 21 cm. (8⁰)
Frequency
Annual
Publication Coverage
Vol. I (1783)-
Ceased with 1851.
Ceased with 1851.
Note
Printers' and booksellers' names vary: in v. 3: Dodsley, Lockyear Davis, White, Beckett, Johnson, Cadell, Elmsley, Walter, Richardson, and Debrett; in v. 4: T. Wilkins, Aldermaubury; in v. 7 T. Spillsbury, Snow-Hill; in v.8: T. Spillsbury and son, Snow-Hill.
A price of 4 shillings appears on v. 5; this increases to 5 shillings with v.9.
Vol.2 is bound with a portrait of the society's president; other volumes include engravings of classical figures or topics related to the society.
Contains notes on the transactions and progress of the society, list of members, catalogues of machines, list of rewards for progress in agricultural machines, articles on crops, chemistry, the encouragement of improvements, diagrams of machines, and a table of contents.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
A price of 4 shillings appears on v. 5; this increases to 5 shillings with v.9.
Vol.2 is bound with a portrait of the society's president; other volumes include engravings of classical figures or topics related to the society.
Contains notes on the transactions and progress of the society, list of members, catalogues of machines, list of rewards for progress in agricultural machines, articles on crops, chemistry, the encouragement of improvements, diagrams of machines, and a table of contents.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Indexed In
Goldsmiths' Lib. cat, 37768
English Short Title Catalog, P3191.
English Short Title Catalog, P3191.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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Index by subject and names
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A second edition was printed: 1789-<1793> (cf. T150184).
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