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HARRIS, JOHN. Lexicon Technicum: or an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 2 engraved frontispiece portraits and 23 engraved plates, some folding. 2 volumes. Folio, 312x196 mm, contemporary calf gilt, worn, with surface defects on covers, joints cracked or starting; contents clean and bright, plate opposite 4Ddd1 in Volume 2 cropped in outer margin slightly entering text and image. London: J. Walthoe et al., 1736
Fifth edition of the first English dictionary of arts and sciences, and the earliest modern encyclopedia of science, quoting extensively from Newton under various headings. Grolier/Horblit 25a; Norman 992; Printing and the Mind of Man 171a (all citing the 1704-10 original edition); Wallis 383.502 (this edition).
