CYCLOPAEDIA: OR, AN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. CONTAINING AN EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS, AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL SUBJECTS, IN THE LIBERAL AND MECHANICAL ARTS, AND THE SCIENCES, HUMAN AND DIVINE. INTENDED AS A COURSE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING. [Five Volumes, Including Volume of Plates] [Complete]

Author: Chambers, E[phraim]; Rees, Abraham [Supplement]
Title: CYCLOPAEDIA: OR, AN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. CONTAINING AN EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS, AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL SUBJECTS, IN THE LIBERAL AND MECHANICAL ARTS, AND THE SCIENCES, HUMAN AND DIVINE. INTENDED AS A COURSE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING. [Five Volumes, Including Volume of Plates] [Complete]
Publication: London: J. F. and C. Rivington, et al. 1786
Edition: Early Edition

Description: Folios, Five Volumes; G+; Full calf with richly gilt-ornamented spines, red and black spine labels with gilt lettering; Boards show light chipping to heads/tails of spine (with some evidence of repair), light wear to ornamented edges, significant cracking to joints along the back cover of Vol. I. and both covers of Vol. V. (plates, significant chipping to bottom corners of Vol. V. (plates), light plus bumping to corners overall, and very light wear to spine labels; Textblocks show light age-toning to edges, and minimal foxing impacting first and last few leaves of each volume; Frontispiece to Volume I intact; Armorial bookplate of John Cator to each front pastedown; Plates Volume includes 142 plates (including folding). RWO-LC.

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An early edition of Abraham Rees' expanded version of Chambers' Cyclopaedia. Chambers' work, initially released in two volumes in 1728, was one of the earliest general encyclopaedias in the english language. A failed attempt at producing a French translation of the became the genesis for Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie in the late 1740s. The set on offer here is an early edition of Abraham Ree's greatly expanded version, which was released in installments beginning in 1778.

Seller ID: 1364521

Subject: Books on Books & Reference, European History