GEORGE RIPLEY AND C. A. DANA,
ASSISTED BY A NUMEROUS BUT SELECT CORPS OF WRITERS.
The design of The New American Cyclopædia is to furnish the great body of intelligent readers in this country with a popular Dictionary of General Knowledge.
The New American Cyclopædia is not founded on any European model; in its plan and elaboration it is strictly original, and strictly American. Many of the writers employed on the work have enriched it with their personal researches, observations, and discoveries; and every article has been written, or re-written, expressly for its pages.
It is intended that the work shall bear such a character of practical utility as to make it indispensable to every American library.
Throughout its successive volumes, The New American Cyclopædia will present a fund of accurate and copious information on Science, Art, Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, Law, Medicine, Literature, Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, History, Biography, Geography, Religion, Politics, Travels, Chemistry, Mechanics, Inventions, and Trades.
Abstaining from all doctrinal discussions, from all sectional and sectarian arguments, it will maintain the position of absolute impartiality on the great controverted questions which have divided opinions in every age.
PRICE.
This work is published exclusively by subscription, in sixteen large octavo volumes, each containing 750 two-column pages.
Price per volume, cloth, $3.50; library style, leather, $4; half morocco, 4.50; half russia, extra, $5.