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" and printed for W. Owen in London in 1763, with plates engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Charles Grignion and Samuel Wale for general readers and tradesmen. The copperplates are labelled technical diagrams: theodolites and telescopes on tripods, geometric solids, scales, gunnery sections and astronomical projections, useful as fine-line instrument silhouettes and figure-keyed schematics.
