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
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3166032.5
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.5, plates : ill. (some col.), diagrams, maps, ports. ; 4to. Lacks frontispiece. Pencil marking to list of plates. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; gilt rolled at edge of calf; spine gilt; lettered direct (gilt tooled); red sprinkled edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
John Wilkes, MP (1725 - 1797), compiler