User:Apwoolrich/Encyclopaedia Londinensis

Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Comprehending, Under One General Alphabetical Arrangement, all the Words and Substance of Every Kind of Dictionary Extant in the English Language. In which the Improved Departments of the Mechanical Arts, the Liberal Sciences, the Higher Mathematics, and the Several Branches of Polite Literature, are Selected from the Acts, Memoirs, and Transactions, of the Most Eminent Literary Societies, in Europe, Asia, and America

Compiled by John Wilkes, edited by John Jones Issued in 24 volumes from 1796-1828

The majority of the bird engravings were produced by J. Pass and J. Chapman mostly after paintings by Reinhold and Edwards

Contributors included: Macquin, Ange-Denis (1756–1823), antiquary andhe wrote on heraldry and other subjects in the Encyclopaedia Londinensis