Rees's Cyclopædia
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Rees's Cyclopædia, in full The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, was a 19th-century British encyclopaedia edited by Rev. Abraham Rees, a Presbyterian minister and
Title page of first edition, 1819
Abraham Rees (1743–1825), compiler of Rees's Cyclopædia.
A plate from the atlas.
Samuel Fisher Bradford. Publisher of the American edition of Rees's Cyclopædia. Original in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Abraham Rees
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Abraham Rees was a Welsh nonconformist minister, and compiler of Rees's Cyclopædia.
Rees's Cyclopædia
…Cyclopædia, in full The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, was a 19th-century British encyclopaedia edited by Rev. Abraham Rees (1743–1825), a Presbyterian minister and scholar who had edited previous editions of Chambers's Cyclopædia. When Rees was planning his Cyclopædia…
Abraham Rees, c. 1802.