02. Dictionaries And Encyclopædias: General

  • A Boyer. Dictionnaire Royal, François-Anglois et Anglois-François. Vol I of [?]2. London 1756.

  • (f) G S Howard. Encyclopaedia Londinensis. Vols I & III of 3. London nd, c1788.

  • (f) G S Howard. New Royal Cyclopaedia. Vol I of 2. London nd, c1788. This is in fact the same work as the preceding.

  • (f) E Chambers. Cyclopaedia: or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 5 vols, London 1788. 'Supplement and Modern Improvements' by Abraham Rees (qv, below) incorporated alphabetically

  • F P Rozier. Cours Complet d'Agriculture. 10 vols, Paris 1793-1800.

  • Abraham Rees. Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. 31 of 39 vols text, 1 of ?6 vols plates. London 1819. This set belonged to   Bishop Charles Perry, whose bookplates, removed for the purpose of rebinding, I hold separately

  • Encyclopædia Britannica, &c (3 vols, A Bell & C Macfarquhar, Edinburgh 1823) [facsimile]

  • W Harris & others. The Oxford Encyclopaedia, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, &c. 7 vols, Oxford 1828.

  • Popular Encyclopedia. 12 vols, Glasgow nd (? c1830).

  • Penny Cyclopaedia. 27 vols, London 1833-1843. Set presented by the Committee and Friends of the Prescot Mechanics' Institution to W H Barlow on his leaving England, 1 June 1849. It is interesting to note that Philip Russell sent the fourth number of the Penny Cyclopaedia to his brother George in 1837 to provide him with reading matter on his squatting run in the Port Philip District: Russell, Narrative, p 134.

  • Charles F Partington. British Cyclopaedia of the Arts and Sciences. 2 vols, London 1835 [1833].

  • W & R Chambers [eds]. Chambers's Information for the People. 5th ed, 2 vols, London & Edinburgh 1874. Ex libris J Cluny Harkness. See also Australia: Description and History, for Chambers's Information 'Emigration to Australia', c 1852.

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica. 9th ed, 25 vols, Edinburgh 1875-1889; 10th ed comprising vols 1-24 of preceding plus 11 vols, Edinburgh 1902-1903.

See also:

(sec 44) Blair, Cyclopaedia of Australia. Jose and Carter, Illustrated Australian Encyclopaedia.

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