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Like the first edition, the second was originally issued in weekly instalments. These were issued from 1807 to 1816. In the last year the encyclopedia was issued as a 24 volume set, with the last volume being a supplement to the original text. The subtitle was changed to "Universal dictionary of the
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The majority of the 370 plates and maps claimed by the second edition, where credited, are signed T Clerk Sculpt. Edinr. Two other artists, J Stewart and J Frasier, have signed plates. Though 370 plates and maps are claimed on the title pages, there are only directions for the placement of 348
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was issued in weekly instalments from 1796 to 1806, then republished in a 23 volume set in 1806. The first edition had the subtitle "Universal dictionary of knowledge, collected from every source and intended to supersede the use of all other English books of reference."
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or Universal dictionary of the arts, sciences, literature, &c. intended to supersede the use of other books of reference.
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Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords: Upon Appeal from Scotland, from 1726 to [1822] ...
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volumes with plates and maps. The main contributor and editor was Alexander Aitchison, member of the
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arts, sciences, literature, &c. intended to supersede the use of other books of reference."
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plates, of which only one could be described as a map, a plan of Washington, D.C., in 1800 by
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The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary of arts and sciences
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2nd ed. New York and London; Haffner Publishing Company 1966 pp.178
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2nd ed. New York and London; Haffner Publishing Company 1966 pp.178
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second edition, 23 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed by J. Brown, 1816
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Minerva directing study to the attainment of Universal Knowledge
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Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development
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Joseph W. Dauben; Christoph J. Scriba (23 September 2002).
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John Craigie; John Shaw Stewart; Thomas S. Paton (1856).
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was a publishing project around the Morison Press in
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Encyclopedia Perthensis

Perth, Scotland
James Morison
the third edition of Encyclopædia Britannica
Washington, D.C.
8vo
Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh
Andrew Ellicott
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/65126
UK public library membership
Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords: Upon Appeal from Scotland, from 1726 to [1822] ...
265
The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary of arts and sciences
12
Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development
ISBN
978-3-7643-6167-9
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or Universal dictionary of the arts, sciences, literature, &c. intended to supersede the use of other books of reference.
Categories
English-language encyclopedias
Scottish encyclopedias
Reference works in the public domain
History of Perth, Scotland
1790s books
1790s establishments in Scotland
18th-century encyclopedias
19th-century encyclopedias

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