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 ON JANUARY 1, 1818, WILL BE PUBLISHED,

(To be continued regularly, at least once every Three Months)

VOL. I. PART 1.

OF THE

ENCYCLOPEDIA METROPOLITANA,

OR

Universal Dictionary of Knowledge,

ON AN ORIGINAL PLAN;

COMPRISING

THE TWO-FOLD ADVANTAGE OF A PHILOSOPHICAL AND AN ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT,

With appropriate and entirely New Engravings.

Conditions.

I. THIS Work will consist of 25 Volumes, 4to, in four principal divisions, the 25th being a Volume of Index to the whole Work. Two Parts to make a Volume.,

II. Of these divisions which may be called for distinction in this place, the Philosophical, the Scientific, the Biographical, and the Miscellaneous portions of the Work, the same proportion in point of quantity will be given in every Part as they bear to each other in the whole Work; the Volume of Index being published last.

III. The price of the Parts, in boards, will be One Guinea; the Work will be handsomely printed, and the Purchasers may be assored not only of the uniformity and punctuality of its appearance, but also of its completion within the PRESCRIBED LIMITS, on the entirely new ground of its digested PLAN: to which therefore particular attention is requested.

IV. Each part will contain on the average Twelve Engravings, and care will be taken that the plates and the correspondent text are published as much as possible together. Authenticated Portraits will accompany the Biographical part.

V. A few Copies will be printed on super royal paper, with proof impressions of the plates, price Two Guineas in boards.

A Prospectus which has been submitted to some of the first literary characters in the country is in circulation, and may be! confidently referred to, to prove the necessity of such a work.