The New Cyclopaedia

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In encyclopaedia: The contemporary world
Similarly, The New Cyclopaedia, in the early 19th century, incorporated articles on subjects such as candle making and coach building.
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In encyclopaedia: The 19th century
…original and finely illustrated work, The New Cyclopaedia (1802–20), the only serious rival to the Britannica in a generation that saw some dozen “new” encyclopaedias rise and fall. What might have been the greatest encyclopaedia of the century, the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana (1817–45), failed miserably because of the early withdrawal of…
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