SOCIETY OF GENTLEMEN, 'A NEW AND COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ARTS and SCIENCES'
SOCIETY OF GENTLEMENA NEW AND COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ARTS and SCIENCES, COMPREHENDING ALL The Branches of Useful Knowledge...Second edition printed for W. Owen 'at Homer's Head, in Fleet-street', London 1763/4, eight volumes with a ninth for the plates, 8vo, full calf gilt titled morocco to spine, binding for volume of plates differs, a richly illustrated attempt to organise and promulgate the accumulated knowledge of the mid-18th century, preceding the first publication of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by several years, (9). Provenance: The horological library of Lawrance Hurst.
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SOCIETY OF GENTLEMENA NEW AND COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ARTS and SCIENCES, COMPREHENDING ALL The Branches of Useful Knowledge...Second edition printed for W. Owen 'at Homer's Head, in Fleet-street', London 1763/4, eight volumes with a ninth for the plates, 8vo, full calf gilt titled morocco to spine, binding for volume of plates differs, a richly illustrated attempt to organise and promulgate the accumulated knowledge of the mid-18th century, preceding the first publication of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by several years, (9). Provenance: The horological library of Lawrance Hurst.
