Parker & Delaplaine's American Edition of the New Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (31 volumes)

David Brewster

Philadelphia : Joseph and Edward Parker, 1812

[Early American Encyclopedia] 31 volume set (16 volumes, parts 1 & 2, bound in 31 tomes). Lacking one part of one volume, as well as the final two volumes.  Quartos, 31 cm.  **Sold with all faults.** Bound in contemporary full calf.  Morocco spine labels.  Early Leicester Library stamps.  Engraved title page. Text printed in two columns.  Plates bound after text, many folding. Some of the plates of the first volume are defective, with tears, some with loss or foxing. Toning, foxing throughout. "Conducted by David Brewster, L.L.D. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Assisted by upwards of one hundred gentlemen in Europe, most eminent in science and literature. And now improved for the greater satisfaction and better information of the people of the United States, in the civil, religious & natural history of their country in American biography & in the great discoveries in mechanics & the arts." 

  This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.  1812-18318