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(ENCYCLOPÆDIA). BURROWES, Amyas Deane. The Modern Encyclopædia; or General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, comprehending the Latest Discoveries in each department of knowledge...In Ten Volumes. Printed and Published by Richards & Co....Poultry, and sold by Simkin & Marshall...Bristol and in Dublin by J.Jones. [1816]-[1827?] [F40535]
10 vols. 4to. (27 x 22 cm.). Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, flat spines with gilt decoration and lettering and dated 1827 at the foot of each, marbled edges, plain endpapers. Frontispiece in Vol.I, engraved titles to each volume and 313 plates (including six maps). Some intermittent spotting and browning, generally a very good set. £1,250
The Advertisement at the beginning of the first volume, dated December 31st 1816, announces this to be the sixth Part of the work completing the First Volume, and states that “though in the Prospectus the Public have been promised but 300, there is now reason to apprehend that the number of engravings will very considerably exceed that number”.
An Index to the plates is promised with the last part, not present in this set but included with the BL copy which we have consulted (and herewith supply a photocopy). According to that list this copy has 313 of a listed 311 plates: there are a few plates which are called for in the list which are absent but a few more present which are not called for. We have annotated the Directions to the Binder accordingly; i.e. Vol. lacks one plate of Anatomy and one Miscellanies, Vol 3 has 3 additional Centres and 1 additional Conic Sections, Vol.4 has 1 additional Eclipse, Vol.7 lacks one of the Mid-wifery plates (although this coincides with our last copy (12 years ago)and we suspect is a mistake in the list), in Vol 8 there are in fact 9 plates of Music but these only count (for both purposes) as 5 since 4 are printed both recto and verso, Vol. 8 lacks 1 plate of Navigation, Vol. 10 has 1 additional plate of Shipbuilding and 3 of Zoology but lacks 1 (of 3) Simia and 1 Fractures. A few plates are bound in different volumes to the specifications of the Directions.
The BL copy is bound in 11 volumes with the plates as a separate volume - and although quite a handsome binding, lacks one engraved title and 25 plates, does not carry the Advertisement leaf referred to here, nor the Preface/Introduction. The title pages are not dated in either set but pencilled annotations in the BL set indicate a final publishing date of 1837: this is probably erroneous as our set clearly states 1827 in gilt at the foot of each spine.
The Advertisement promises that the last Part will include a frontispiece, present here, and a Preface and Introduction, not present here and not present in the BL copy. We assume that they were never published (we have insufficient details from our last copy).
Scarce.

DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Compact Edition. Oxford University Press. 1975. [F24417]
2 vols. Folio (32 x 24 cm) plus magnifying glass, all housed in original slipcase. A very good set. £450
The complete text of the original 22 volume set plus six volumes of 20thc. Reproduced micrographically.

ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. Thirteenth Edition Being Volumes One to Twenty-eight of the Latest Standard Edition with the Three New Volumes covering Recent Years and the Index Volume. New York. 1926 [F39830]
32 vols. in 16. 4to. (28 x 22 cm). Original half burgundy morocco, t.e.g.. Some creasing to endpapers, one volume with dent to upper board, trivial white mark to spines of a few volumes. £750

ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. Eleventh Edition [with]...The [three] New Volumes, constituting, in combination with the twenty-nine volumes of the eleventh edition, The Twelfth Edition...Handy Volume Issue. New York 1910-11 & 1922 [F41313]
32 vols. Sm. 4to. (21.5 x 16cm). Original half brown morocco, spines gilt, top edge gilt. Housed in its own original oak bookcase with glazed door. Some light scuffing to a couple of volumes. A very good set. £750

(Encyclopaedia). CHAMBERS. Encyclopaedia. A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. New Edition edited by David Patrick and William Geddie. London & Edinburgh: W. & R Chambers. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. 1923 [F36554]
10 vols. 4to. ( 27.5 x 18 cm). Handsomely bound in contemporary half black morocco, blue cloth boards. spines panelled and lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. A very good set. £250

(ENCYCLOPAEDIA.) The Popular Encyclopaedia. or Conversations Lexicon. Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Science, Literature, Biography, History and Politics; with preliminary dissertations of distinugished writers. New and Revised... London: Blackie and Son. 1857 [F33823]
7 vols. Lge. 8vo. Original gilt and blindstamped brown cloth. Some fading and wear to cloth, covers loose on Vol. I. £150

MITCHELL, James. The Portable Encyclopaedia: Or Dictionary of The Arts and Sciences, On the Basis of Dr Gregory’s Comprehending the Latest Improvements in Every Branch of Useful Knowledge. London: Thomas Tegg. 1826 [F36973]
8vo. (22 x 14 cm). pp.iv+710. Contemporary calf, spine with gilt and blindstamped decoration with gilt lettered black label, with marbled boards. Frontis and 49 of 51 numbered plates. Boards scuffed, spine chipped at foot with loss, binding worn. £50

[OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.] MURRAY, James A.H. [et al.]. A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles ; founded mainly on the materials collected by The Philological Society. Edited by James A.H. Murray [et al.]...[Plus] Supplement. Oxford; at the Clarendon Press. 1888-1928-1933 [F41409]
FIRST EDITION. 13 vols (10 vols bound in 12 plus Supplement). Large 4to. (33 x 26 cm). Original publisher’s half maroon morocco over red cloth boards, spines gilt. Some slight shelf-wear to extremities, a few minor restorations, generally a very good set. £2,500
“the greatest treasure house of any language in the world”
(P.M.M., 371).

[SWEDISH/ENGLISH DICTIONARY]. Svenskt Och Engelskt Lexicon Efter Kongl. Secreteraren Sahlstedts Svenska Ordbok, Forfattadt af Gustaf Widegren, och Pa Des Bekostnad Utgifvet. Stockholm : Johan A. Carlbohm 1788 [F32869]
8vo. (23 x 18 cm). pp. [viii]+897. Original marbled boards, calf spine with raised bands,title blindstamped on spine. Bottom right corner of upper board worn away. Foot of spine badly chipped. Overall soiling to boards. £150



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