Transactions of the society, instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce

All titles

• Transactions of the society, instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce
• Transactions of the society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce; Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce

People / Organizations

• Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain). (Author)

Imprint

London [England] : printed by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard Street, and sold by Messrs. Dodsley, Lockyear Davis, White, Beckett, Johnson, Cadell, Elmsley, Walter, Richardson and Urquhart, and Debrett, [1783-

Publication year

1783-1851

ESTC No.

P3191

Grub Street ID

56593

Description

69 v.,plates : diagrams ; 21 cm. (8°)

Note

Printers' and booksellers' names vary: in v. 3: Dodsley, Lockyear Davis, White, Beckett, Johnson, Cadell, Elmsley, Walter, Richardson, and Debrett; in v. 4: T. Wilkins, Aldermaubury; in v. 7 T. Spillsbury, Snow-Hill; in v.8: T. Spillsbury and son, Snow-Hill

A price of 4 shillings appears on v. 5; this increases to 5 shillings with v.9

Vol.2 is bound with a portrait of the society's president; other volumes include engravings of classical figures or topics related to the society

Contains notes on the transactions and progress of the society, list of members, catalogues of machines, list of rewards for progress in agricultural machines, articles on crops, chemistry, the encouragement of improvements, diagrams of machines, and a table of contents.

Uncontrolled note

Not in NCBEL