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Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences compiled upon a new plan. Edinburgh: for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar; sold by Colin Macfarquhar 1771.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences compiled upon a new plan. Edinburgh: for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar; sold by Colin Macfarquhar 1771.
3 vols., 4to, 260 x 208mm. (10 1/8 x 8 1/8in.), contemporary calf, spines with red and green morocco labels, spines, board edges and corners restored, plate 112 in facsimile, vertical creases to front and end leaves of each volume, the creases restored causing slight loss of legibility to errata in vol. I and to half-title of vol. III, Hh1 and Hh2 in vol. I torn at gutter, small tear to the "Grammatical Table", occasional paper flaws and a few old stains.
FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 159 numbered engraved plates (of 160, lacks no. 112, present in facsimile), no. 146 ("Trade Winds") folding, "Music" plates 117-133 printed on both sides of 9 leaves; 3 folding "Chemistry" tables and 1 folding "Grammatical" table in vol. II.
PMM 218.
"The most famous of all encyclopaedias in the English language"--Printing and the Mind of Man.
Provenance: "Smith, Hair-dresser & Perfumer. Bridge Street, Edin.", engraved eighteenth-century bookplate--"James Robertson, Kinross AD 1796" engraved bookplate. (3)
3 vols., 4to, 260 x 208mm. (10 1/8 x 8 1/8in.), contemporary calf, spines with red and green morocco labels, spines, board edges and corners restored, plate 112 in facsimile, vertical creases to front and end leaves of each volume, the creases restored causing slight loss of legibility to errata in vol. I and to half-title of vol. III, Hh1 and Hh2 in vol. I torn at gutter, small tear to the "Grammatical Table", occasional paper flaws and a few old stains.
FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 159 numbered engraved plates (of 160, lacks no. 112, present in facsimile), no. 146 ("Trade Winds") folding, "Music" plates 117-133 printed on both sides of 9 leaves; 3 folding "Chemistry" tables and 1 folding "Grammatical" table in vol. II.
PMM 218.
"The most famous of all encyclopaedias in the English language"--Printing and the Mind of Man.
Provenance: "Smith, Hair-dresser & Perfumer. Bridge Street, Edin.", engraved eighteenth-century bookplate--"James Robertson, Kinross AD 1796" engraved bookplate. (3)