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

Title
Transactions of the society, instituted at London, for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce [electronic resource].
Published
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-
Physical Description
69 v.,plates : diagrams ; 21 cm. (8⁰)
Frequency
Annual
Extent
Vol. I (1783)-
Ceased with 1851.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
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.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
A second edition was printed: 1789-<1793> (cf. T150184).
Variant and related titles
Transactions of the society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce
Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce
Other editions
Transactions of the Society, instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Format
Journals & Newspapers / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 23, 2010
References
Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, 37768
English short title catalogue, P3191.
Also listed under
Great Britain England London.
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