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LONDON: WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.
THE SUPPLEMENT
to the
PENNY CYCLOPÆDIA.
On the completion of the 'Penny Cyclopædia,' at Christmas, 1843, the following announcement was made:—"In the course of publication care has been taken, in all the great departments, to bring up the information to the most recent period, and also to make the later articles supplementary to, as well as corrective of, the earlier. But omissions, especially of new discoveries, improvements, and recent biographies, cannot have been avoided. These will be supplied by the publication, after a proper lapse of time, which will be at least a year, of a Supplement. A full Index will be published at a future day, which will not only materially increase the value of the Cyclopædia as a work of reference, but will enable the reader to place the later articles in proper connexion with the earlier, in the point of view just mentioned."
It is unnecessary, in any announcement, to point out the value of this Supplement to the Cyclopædia. To the purchasers of the original work it will be almost indispensable; for, ranging over the whole field of knowledge, it was impossible, with every care, to avoid some material omissions of matters which ought to have found a place. But to these, and even to readers who may not desire to possess the complete Work, the Supplement has the incalculable advantage of exhibiting the march of Progressive Knowledge. It is here that will be found all the recent discoveries in Geography, such as are given in the first Part under the heads of Abyssinia and Afghanistan,—countries that have become almost known to us for the first time within a few years. It is here that the rapid steps of Scientific improvement will be laid open. It is here that a record will be found of the more eminent deceased of the passing day, whose Biography belongs to the memorable things of our age. The supplement will be conducted by the Editor of the original work, with the assistance of many of the first Contributors. It will form two volumes.
The Publication of the Supplement commenced on the 1st of February,
1845, in Parts, at Eighteenpence each.
Uniform with the Weekly Volume,