{"product_id":"the-new-royal-cyclopaedia-and-encyclopaedia-c-1790s","title":"The New Royal Cyclopaedia and Encyclopaedia C. 1790s","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"947\" data-end=\"1157\"\u003eAn exceptional and increasingly scarce complete three-volume folio edition of George Selby Howard's New Royal Cyclopaedia, one of the great encyclopaedic works produced during Britain's Age of Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1159\" data-end=\"1483\"\u003ePublished by the renowned London bookseller Alex Hogg at No. 16 Paternoster Row, this monumental work sought to gather the entirety of contemporary human knowledge into one comprehensive reference. More than simply a dictionary, it represents one of the most ambitious educational projects of eighteenth-century England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1485\" data-end=\"1569\"\u003eThe encyclopaedia encompasses virtually every known discipline of its day, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"1571\" data-end=\"1802\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"brr9ye\" data-start=\"1571\" data-end=\"1582\"\u003eAstronomy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"rnalek\" data-start=\"1583\" data-end=\"1596\"\u003eMathematics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"o3t3ti\" data-start=\"1597\" data-end=\"1617\"\u003eNatural Philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"bkk4cs\" data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1628\"\u003eMedicine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"4mkvi\" data-start=\"1629\" data-end=\"1640\"\u003eChemistry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1p06fqp\" data-start=\"1641\" data-end=\"1654\"\u003eEngineering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"ry9d6q\" data-start=\"1655\" data-end=\"1667\"\u003eNavigation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"f4sg4j\" data-start=\"1668\" data-end=\"1686\"\u003eMilitary Science\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"si2swg\" data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1698\"\u003eGeography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1asn125\" data-start=\"1699\" data-end=\"1713\"\u003eArchitecture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"13ecb4p\" data-start=\"1714\" data-end=\"1727\"\u003eAgriculture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"18i4upk\" data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1739\"\u003eFine Arts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"v9fpz7\" data-start=\"1740\" data-end=\"1750\"\u003eTheology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"obvp56\" data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1760\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1vhc5qf\" data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1769\"\u003eBotany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1rm3khb\" data-start=\"1770\" data-end=\"1779\"\u003eZoology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"eil7zk\" data-start=\"1780\" data-end=\"1802\"\u003eClassical Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1804\" data-end=\"1967\"\u003eIssued originally in weekly numbers before being bound into three substantial folio volumes, complete surviving sets are becoming increasingly difficult to locate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-section-id=\"10btkw6\" data-start=\"1974\" data-end=\"1987\"\u003eHighlights\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"1989\" data-end=\"2346\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"jecv3c\" data-start=\"1989\" data-end=\"2016\"\u003eComplete three-volume set\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"11wmkmr\" data-start=\"2017\" data-end=\"2051\"\u003ePublished in London by Alex Hogg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"v4m7la\" data-start=\"2052\" data-end=\"2069\"\u003eCirca 1788–1796\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"f39spq\" data-start=\"2070\" data-end=\"2092\"\u003eMassive folio format\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1rqu5bt\" data-start=\"2093\" data-end=\"2124\"\u003eOriginal engraved title pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1x7w16r\" data-start=\"2125\" data-end=\"2159\"\u003eBeautiful engraved frontispieces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"nddi2p\" data-start=\"2160\" data-end=\"2214\"\u003eNumerous original copperplate engraved illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1sdueus\" data-start=\"2215\" data-end=\"2259\"\u003eFolding scientific and mathematical plates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1xarq4i\" data-start=\"2260\" data-end=\"2317\"\u003eDecorative full calf leather bindings with raised bands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"19ogl5f\" data-start=\"2318\" data-end=\"2346\"\u003eOriginal gilt spine labels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-section-id=\"1wk9puf\" data-start=\"2353\" data-end=\"2377\"\u003eHistorical Background\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2379\" data-end=\"2483\"\u003eThese volumes were printed during one of history's most extraordinary periods of intellectual discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2485\" data-end=\"2834\"\u003eThe late eighteenth century was the height of the Age of Enlightenment, an era when scholars believed that reason, observation, and scientific inquiry could improve society. 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