Author: ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.
Title: 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 Treaties or Systems; and the various technical terms, &c. are explained as they occur in the order of the Alphabet. Complete in 3 Volumes.
Description: Facsimile Edition of the First edition; Thick 4to; Vol. 1; pp. viii, 698; numerous b/w sketch illustrations, errata; Volume 2; pp. 1009; folding grammatical table, numerous b/w sketches; Vol. 3; pp. 953; numerous b/w illustrations; original brown cloth with title lettered in gilt on spine, minor foxing to endpapers; otherwise very good copies. Edinburgh, Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1771. The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was issued serially in sections from 1768 to 1771. The first bound volume of these sections was completed in 1769, the second in 1770 and the third- and last - in 1771. Subtitles "A Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences," the set contained 2,459 pages and 160 copperplate engravings by Andrew Bell.

Keywords: Art Science Encyclopaedia Britannica