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[Advertisement. 1824]
Prospectus of the Encyclopædia metropolitana, or universal dictionary of knowledge.
London: printed by A. Applegarth, [1824].
2, [2] p. ; 32.2 cm. (2°)
Docket-title. With 'The Plan Of The Work' on p. [3] dated at the head 'July, 1824'. The conditions and terms of publication are as they were in the [1817?] advertisement (q.v.) except that the price (per part) of one of 'the few copies printed on Royal paper with proof impressions of the Plates' is now slightly lower at £1 16s., and the work has evidently changed hands, the present advertisement being issued on behalf of the London publisher/booksellers J. Mawman, C. & J. Rivington, Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, Sherwood, Jones & Co., G. & W.B. Whittaker, and J. Duncan, as well as J. Parker in Oxford and Deighton & Sons in Cambridge.
Copy Notes Docket-title inscribed in ink from Mr Dean / 27 Nov 1824.
Binding Loose bifolium.
Reference Number 2199
[Advertisement. 1824]
Prospectus of the Encyclopædia metropolitana, or universal dictionary of knowledge.
London: printed by A. Applegarth, [1824].
2, [2] p. ; 32.2 cm. (2°)
Docket-title. With 'The Plan Of The Work' on p. [3] dated at the head 'July, 1824'. The conditions and terms of publication are as they were in the [1817?] advertisement (q.v.) except that the price (per part) of one of 'the few copies printed on Royal paper with proof impressions of the Plates' is now slightly lower at £1 16s., and the work has evidently changed hands, the present advertisement being issued on behalf of the London publisher/booksellers J. Mawman, C. & J. Rivington, Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, Sherwood, Jones & Co., G. & W.B. Whittaker, and J. Duncan, as well as J. Parker in Oxford and Deighton & Sons in Cambridge.
Copy Notes Docket-title inscribed in ink from Mr Dean / 27 Nov 1824.
Binding Loose bifolium.
Reference Number 2199