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OF

UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE,

BEING

A REPRINT ENTIRE OF THE LAST (1879) EDINBURGH AND LONDON EDITION
OF CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPEDIA ;

A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People.

WITH VERY LARGE ADDITIONS UPON TOPICS OF SPECIAL
INTEREST TO AMERICAN READERS.

IN TWENTY VOLUMES.

VOL I.

NEW YORK:

AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE
No. 55 BEEKMAN STREET,

1879.

Botan, Sab 898 June 23

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

TRANSFERRED FROM

BOTANICAL MUSEUM LIBRARY

FEB. 26, 1934

THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.

To place useful knowledge within easy reach of those who desire it, is the object or the present edition of this work. Its distinguishing

features are:

First. A convenient form of page and size of volume. The advantages over the heavy octavo and unwieldy quarto are apparent.

Second. The arrangement of the catch-words at the head of each page, and the printing in full of the index words on the back of each volume. These aids to facility of consultation will be readily appreciated.

Third. The first fourteen volumes comprise the verbatim reprint of the last Edinburgh edition of CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, only such slight verbal emendations and changes being made as are necessitated by the omission of the wood-cuts of the original work. These volumes are sold separately from the succeeding ones, when desired.

Fourth. In the last six volumes are introduced several thousand topics not found in the original work, besides additional treatment of many there presented. This portion is designed to meet the special wants of American readers, supplying the deficiencies of the original work, which naturally resulted from its being of foreign production. The departments of geography, history, biography, and natural history, will be found particularly full and satisfactory. These six volumes, also, are sold separately from the preceding, when desired. This arrange

ment in two parts will enable those whose wants are sufficiently met by the orginal portion, to avoid the added expense of the other part, and will also afford the numerous owners of other editions of Chambers's the opportunity of procuring the additions without the necessity of duplicating what they already possess.

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