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MUSIC - 1818. Music Organs. 4 original plates: Interior Profile of an English Choir Organ; Flight & Robson Organ for the Earl of Kirkwall; etc. From Abraham Rees' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London, 1818. First Edition, Disbound. Very Good Condition. 4 original plates, with NO ACCOMPANYING TEXT. Plate 4 is quite foxed, the others are clean and bright. Rees's Cyclopaedia, in full The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature was an important 19th-century British encyclopaedia edited by Rev. Abraham Rees (1743ÔÇô1825), a Presbyterian minister and scholar who had edited previous editions of Chambers's Cyclopaedia. Philosophical radicalism was suspect in Britain, and aspects of the Cyclopaedia were thought to be distinctly subversive and attracted the hostility of the Loyalist press. These reviews complained about its supposed antireligious aspects and radical standpoints attributed to its editor and contributors, and cited lack of article balance. The Quarterly Review commented, "Rees is the most extensive cyclopaedia in English with many excellent articles it has generally been condemned as on the whole too diffuse and too commonplace." [Wikipedia]. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Size: 21 x 27 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Rees Cyclopaedia; Inventory No: 365584.
GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 18 US$ 19.96 | JP¥ 2872] Book number 365584

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