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Bell, Andrew & Colin MacFarquhar - Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled upon a new plan in which the different sciences and arts are digested into distinct treatises or systems; and the various technical terms, etc., are explained as they occur in the order of the alphabet, by a society of gentlemen in Scotland. Edinburgh, Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar; and sold by Colin Macfarquhar, 1771.

[Chicago : Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1971]. Reprint 1771-edition. 3 Volumes. Original hardcover bindings. viii,697,[1]; [4],1009,[2]; [4],953,[1] pp. With [160] leaves of plates : ills., facsimiles, maps, music. 27 cm. Some occas. foxing. Heavy item Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Printed for 244 years, the Britannica was the longest-running in-print encyclopaedia in the English language.The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published and printed in Edinburgh for the engraver Andrew Bell and the printer Colin Macfarquhar by 'a society of gentlemen in Scotland' and was sold by Macfarquhar at his printing office on Nicolson Street. The work was issued in parts from December 1768 to 1771 with double-columned pages. In part, it was conceived in reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (published 1751-1772), which had been inspired by Chambers's Cyclopaedia (first edition 1728).The Britannica of this period was primarily a Scottish enterprise, and it is one of the most enduring legacies of the Scottish Enlightenment. This is a facsimilé reprint of the first edition, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the original edition.
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