were considered excellent. Divisions It is in four divisions, with only the last division being presented in an alphabetical structure: I. Pure Sciences, 2 vols., 1,813 pages, 16 plates, 28 treatises, includes grammar, law and theology; II. Mixed and Applied Sciences, 6 vols., 5,391 pages, 437 plates, 42 treatises, including fine arts, useful arts, natural history and its application, the medical sciences; v.8 (i.e. Mixed Sciences v.6) III. History and biography, 5 vols., 4,458 pages, 7 maps, containing biography (135 essays) chronologically arranged (to Thomas Aquinas in vol. 3), and interspersed with (210) chapters on history (to 1815), as the most philosophical, interesting and natural form (but modern lives were so many that the plan broke down, and a division of biography, to be in 2 vols., was announced but not published); v.11 (i.e. History and Biography v.3) v.12 (i.e. History and Biography v.4) IV. Miscellaneous and lexicographical, 13 vols., 10,338 pages, 105 plates, including geography, a dictionary of English and descriptive natural history. An English lexicon, in parts, was supplied by Charles Richardson, from 1818. v.16 (i.e. Miscellaneous v.3) v.18 (i.e. Miscellaneous v.5) v.23 (i.e. Miscellaneous v.10) The plates were issued in three volumes. An index volume, 364 pages, contained about 9,000 articles. A re-issue in 38 vols. quarto, was announced in 1849. Of a second edition 42 vols. 8vo, 14,744 pages, belonging to divisions i. to iii., were published in 1849–1858. References External links Internet Archive. Full access: view and download all volumes. Hathitrust. 1845 books English-language encyclopedias British encyclopedias 19th-century encyclopedias