Encyclopædia Londinensis; : or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Comprehending, under one general alphabetical arrangement, all the words and substance of every kind of dictionary extant in the English language. In which the improved departments of the mechanical arts, the liberal sciences, the higher mathematics, and the several branches of polite literature, are selected from the acts, memoirs, and transactions, of the most eminent literary societies, in Europe, Asia, and America. Forming a comprehensive view of the rise, progress, and present state, of human learning in every part of the world. Embellished by a most magnificent set of copper-plate engravings ... Together with a comprehensive system of heraldry, finely illuminated, ... / Compiled, digested, and arranged, by John Wilkes, ... assisted by eminent scholars of the English, Scotch, and Irish Universities.
John Wilkes, MP (1725 - 1797)
Category
Books
Date
1810 - 1829
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3166032
Summary
Bibliographic description
24 v., plates (some folded) : ill. (some col.), coats of arms, diagrams, facsims., maps (some col.), music, plans, ports. ; 4to. Lacks frontispiece in v.5. Ephemera: scraps of paper used as markers in v.6 and v.9; pressed grasses in v.8; bookseller's advertisement in v.12. Occasional annotations to articles on 'England' (v.6), 'France' (v.7), 'Ireland' (v.11) and 'Scotland' (v.22). Map of Ireland (v.11) annotated with "track of Englis's [sic., i.e. Inglis's] journey in 1834". Pencil marking on rear endpaper of v.2. Page numbers written in pencil on some plates in v.3, to indicate their place within the text. Text marking on list of plates in several vols. (v.4-5, 7-11, 15, 17-18, 20-21). Manuscript annotation on verso of frontispiece in v.16. Provenance: rear pastedowns peeling away in v.17 and v.19, revealing labels underneath on earlier marbled endpapers: in v.17: 'John Stacy Printer, Bookseller, Binder, and Stationer ... Norwich'; and in v.19: 'John Williams ... Stationer ... London'. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; gilt rolled at edge of calf; spine gilt; lettered direct (gilt tooled); red sprinkled edges (v.22-24: yellow edges, sprinkled with red); marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
John Wilkes, MP (1725 - 1797), compiler