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Two views in one sheet taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica (original name, in Latin, Encyclopædia Britannica) is one of the major encyclopedias in the English language; its first edition is dated 1768-71 in Edinburgh, Scotland, as Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Compiled upon a New Plan.

A product of the Scottish Enlightenment, the Britannica was originally published in Edinburgh in the second half of the 18th century. The first Britannica came from the minds of Colin Macfarquhar, a bookseller and printer, and Andrew Bell, an engraver, who published the work under the pseudonym Society of Gentlemen. They conceived Britannica as a conservative reaction to Denis Diderot's French Encyclopédie (published 1751-1766).

Etching, printed on contemporary laid paper and finely hand coloured, in very good condition.