Item Description: | Based on the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with many articles revised or re-written. Issued in parts, from 1790 to 1797. Title pages to all 18 volumes dated 1798. Cf. Evans 22486. Evans assigns a separate number to each volume as issued, and separate numbers (Evans 33676-33693) to each of the 18 volumes as issued in 1798. - Edition statement transposed; precedes "Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates." on title page. - English Short Title Catalog, W31873. - Evans, 33676. - Parentheses substituted for square brackets in publication statement. - Reproduction of original from British Library |