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R (Stack - oversize)Hall, William Henry
The New Royal Encyclopaedia; or, Complete Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, on an Improved Plan
In which all the Respective Sciences, are arranged into Complete Systems, and the Arts digested into Distinct Treatises. Also the Detached Parts of Knowledge alphabetically arranged and copiously explained, according to the Best Authorities, containing a Copious Digest and Display of Whole Theory and Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts. Comprizing a General Repository of Ancient and Modern Literature, from the Earliest Ages, down to the Present Time: including all the New Improvements and the latest Discoveries made in the Arts and Sciences, particularly ... By the Addition of this New and Improved Plan, it includes a General Circle of Science, and forms the most comprehensive Library of Universal Knowledge, that was ever published in the English Language. The Whole entirely freed from the Errors, Obscurities, and Superfluities of other Dictionaries. Illustrated with upwards of 150 Large Superb Copper Plates, accurately Descriptive of the Subjects to which they refer. In three volumes. By William Henry Hall, Esq. Millman Place, Bedford Row, London. And other Gentlemen of Scientific Knowledge, whose names and addresses appear in the Work. London: Printed for C. Cooke (The Sole Proprietor), no. 17, Pater-Noster Row; and sold by booksellers. 1789 (See Preface). Folio. [Vols. II and III may be of a later edition].
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1789
R (Stored Offsite - CB) addHall, William Henry
The New Encyclopaedia; or, Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, on a new and improved plan ... [extracts only]
Third edition, revised by Thomas Augustus Lloyd. London: Printed for C. Cooke ..., n.d. [1790s; an edition with variant title of Hall's New Royal Encyclopaedia]. Extracts only, saved from a broken-up copy of volumes I and II; including title page of volume II and various scientific articles, including on conchology by T. Lloyd, entomology (with plate), geography by T. Marquois, hydrostatics and hydraulics by T. Marquois (with 2 plates). [Further individual plates from this copy may be in Prints Collection.]
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1790s