The popular encyclopedia; . being a general dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, biography, history, and political economy. Reprinted from the American edition of the "Conversations lexicon". With corrections and additions, so as to render it suitable to this country, and bring it down to the present time. With dissertations on the rise and progress of literature, by Sir D.K. Sandford, ... On the progress of science, by Thomas Thomson, ... and on the progress of the fine arts, by Allan Cunningham, Esq. Volume I. Part I. (-VII. Part II).
Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
Category
Books
Date
1836 - 1841
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3118377
Summary
Bibliographic description
7v. in 15, plates . ill.., plates, tables . 25cm.. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-embossed silk, gold-lettered spines. - Variously tipped in to different volumes publisher's advertisements and prospectuses. - Loosely inserted in final volume pencil receipt on paper scrap in '11/- for the 14th part of the Encia. Jany 1st 1841'.
Makers and roles
Allan Cunningham (1784-1842) Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford (1798-1838) Thomas Thomson (1773-1852) Alexander Whitelaw