The People's Library.
"The editors and publishers should receive the thanks of the present generation, and the gratitude of posterity, for being the first to prepare in this language what deserves to be called, not the Encyclopædia Americana, but The People's Library."—New York Courier and Enquirer.
The Encyclopædia Americana;
A Popular Dictionary
Of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, and Politics, brought down to the Present Time, and including a copious Collection of Original Articles in
American Biography:
On the basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon.
Edited by Francis Lieber, assisted by Edward Wigglesworth and T. G. Bradford, Esqs.
In Thirteen Large Volumes, Octavo.