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Dobson's Encyclopaedia: The Publisher, Text, and Publication of America's First Britannica, 1789-1803. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Well-researched with exhaustive citations to primary sources, this is the authoritative source on all matters pertaining to Dobson's Encyclopædia .
Thomas Dobson (1751 near Edinburgh, Scotland – 1823 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a master printer most famous for having published the earliest American version of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the first in the United States to publish a complete Hebrew Bible.
Minor Encyclopedia (1803), edited by Thaddeus M. Harris, copies much of Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia; Domestic Encyclopedia (1803–1804), first American edition, expanded to 5 volumes (4 in the British); second American edition 1821; Low's Encyclopaedia (1805–1811), the first true American encyclopedia
New Royal Cyclopaedia and Encyclopaedia (1788). Edited by George Selby Howard and published in London in 1788, this was largely a plagiarization of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia. [1] Encyclopædia Perthensis (1796–1806, ed 2 by 1816)
Consisting of seven volumes quarto, it is noteworthy among America's earliest encyclopedias for having been written in the United States, as opposed to being an American reprint of a British work, as were, for examples, Dobson's Encyclopedia (1789–1798), the Bradford printing (1806–1820) of Rees's Cyclopædia (1802–1820), Samuel A ...
Pages in category "American encyclopedias" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. ... Dobson's Encyclopædia; Domestic Encyclopedia; E.
The first American encyclopedia, Dobson's Encyclopædia, was based almost entirely on the 3rd edition of the Britannica and was published at nearly the same time (1788–1798), together with an analogous supplement (1803), by Scottish printer Thomas Dobson. Dobson, an Edinburgh native and master printer who learned his craft in that city while ...
Thomas Dobson may refer to: Thomas Dobson (printer) (1751–1823), master printer most famous for having published the earliest American version of the Encyclopædia Britannica Thomas Dobson (rugby) (1872–1902), rugby union footballer who played for Bradford F.C. and England