The Penny Cyclopaedia Of The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge
Volume XXVII Wales - Zygophyllaceae
Published by Charles Knight & Co: London 1843
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The Penny Cyclopædia published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was a multi-volume encyclopedia edited by George Long and published by Charles Knight alongside the Penny Magazine. Twenty-seven volumes and three supplements were published from 1833 to 1843. The contributors to the Penny Cyclopædia were not individually credited with the articles they created, although a list of their names appears in volume 27. The contributors included many notable figures of the period, including the librarian Henry Ellis, the biblical scholar John Kitto, the publisher Charles Knight, the critic George Henry Lewes, the mathematician Augustus De Morgan, the surgeon James Paget, the statistician George Richardson Porter, the sanitary reformer Thomas Southwood Smith, and the art historian Ralph Nicholson Wornum.
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General wear to cover and spine as shown. No prior ownership or library marks. Mild foxing is apparent to endpapers and some (but not many) content pages. Some pages with a lovely aged patina with others quite clean and bright. A lovely copy in good condition overall. Please study photos to understand condition. Happy to provide more photos on request.
