A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids : together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world : illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty : the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages
A four-volume English encyclopaedia of arts and sciences compiled by a "Society of Gentlemen," printed for W. Owen in London in 1763 with plates engraved under Thomas Jefferys for general readers seeking practical reference. Engravings mix botanical dissections, seeds and fruits, heraldic shield diagrams, machines and instruments, drawn in fine outline and hatching suited to cutouts, diagram borrowings and pattern work.
