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- London [England] : printed by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard Street, and sold by Messrs. Dodsley, Lockyear Davis, White, Beckett, Johnson, Cadell, Elmsley, Walter, Richardson and Urquhart, and Debrett, [1783-
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- Vol. I (1783)-, Ceased with 1851
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- 69 v.,plates : diagrams ; 21 cm. (8⁰)
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- Index by subject and names
- Printers' and booksellers' names vary: in v. 3: Dodsley, Lockyear Davis, White, Beckett, Johnson, Cadell, Elmsley, Walter, Richardson, and Debrett; in v. 4: T. Wilkins, Aldermaubury; in v. 7 T. Spillsbury, Snow-Hill; in v.8: T. Spillsbury and son, Snow-Hill.
- A price of 4 shillings appears on v. 5; this increases to 5 shillings with v.9.
- Vol.2 is bound with a portrait of the society's president; other volumes include engravings of classical figures or topics related to the society.
- Contains notes on the transactions and progress of the society, list of members, catalogues of machines, list of rewards for progress in agricultural machines, articles on crops, chemistry, the encouragement of improvements, diagrams of machines, and a table of contents.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Goldsmiths' Lib. cat, 37768
- English Short Title Catalog, P3191.
- A second edition was printed: 1789-<1793> (cf. T150184).