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A New and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : including the latest improvement and discovery, and the present state of every branch of human knowledge

Title
A New and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : including the latest improvement and discovery, and the present state of every branch of human knowledge / [compiled] by G. Gregory.
Publication
Philadelphia : Isaac Peirce, 1815-1816.

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Additional Authors
  • Gregory, G. (George), 1754-1808.
  • Joyce, Jeremiah, 1763-1816.
  • Yeager, Joseph, approximately 1792-1859.
Description
3 v. (unpaged, cxxxix leaves of plates) : ill.; 28 cm.
Alternative Title
  • Dictionary of arts and sciences.
  • New & complete dictionary of arts & sciences.
Subject
  • Encyclopedias and dictionaries
  • Papermaking
  • Papermaking machinery in art
  • Marbling (Bookbinding)
Genre/Form
Subscription lists (Publishing) – United States – 19th century.
Note
  • "Marbling": v. 2; "Paper"; "Paper-making": v. 3; "Paper mill": v. 3, plate cii.
  • Engraved t.p., with date 1816; each vol. has also letterpress t.p.
  • Title and edition statement on letterpress t.p.: A Dictionary of arts and sciences / by G. Gregory. -- 1st American, from the 2nd London ed., considerably improved and augm.
  • "Dr. George Gregory was announced as the editor, while, in fact ... Mr. Jeremiah Joyce was the principal, if not the only, person engaged upon the work"--Memoirs of the life, writings and character ... of the late John Mason Good ... / by Olinthus Gregory. 1828. p. 89. For discussion, cf. Encyclopaedias, their history throughout the ages / Robert Collison. 1964. p. 175-177.
  • Imprint on letterpress title pages: v. 1: Charlestown : S. Etheridge, Jun. ; Philadelphia : I. Peirce, 1815 (Charlestown : S. Etheridge, Jun., printer) (cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 34812); v. 2-3: Philadelphia : Isaac Peirce, sold also by Coale and Maxwell, Baltimore, and James F. Shores, Portsmouth, N.H., 1816 ([Philadelphia] : Dennis Heartt, printer) (cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 34813).
  • Illustrations: 139 prints : engraving, etching ; full-page. Engraved by J. Yeager, W. Kneass, H. Anderson and others. Subjects include architecture, botany, geometry, meteorology, midwifery and natural history.
  • Subscribers' list at end of v. 3.
Call Number
Schlosser 227
LCCN
03026483
OCLC
  • 14835555
  • NYPG90-B103866
Title
A New and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : including the latest improvement and discovery, and the present state of every branch of human knowledge / [compiled] by G. Gregory.
Imprint
Philadelphia : Isaac Peirce, 1815-1816.
Edition
1st American ed., considerably improv'd and augm.
Local Note
Schlosser Coll. has later issue (?) of v. 3, lacking edition statement on engraved t.p., which has imprint: New York : Collins and Co., 1819. Cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 48115. Contains 2 copies of plate cii.
Binding, contemporary, of tree calf.
Provenance: L. Phebe Taber Willets. Bo[ugh]t at sale of Elizabeth Carle, Oct. 17th 1882 (inscription).
Added Author
Gregory, G. (George), 1754-1808.
Joyce, Jeremiah, 1763-1816.
Yeager, Joseph, approximately 1792-1859.
Added Title
Dictionary of arts and sciences.
New & complete dictionary of arts & sciences.
Research Call Number
Schlosser 227
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