At head of title: The cabinet cyclopaedia, conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner Added engraved t.p Colophon: London: Printed by A. Spottiswoode Publisher's advertisements for The cabinet cyclopædia appear on paste-down endpapers Includes bibliographical references and index BM (Nat. hist.) extracted picklist SCNHRB has two copies SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015065410) imperfect: p. [i]-[iv] (including the letterpress t.p.) lacking SCNHRB c. 1 has stamp on front paste-down endpaper: S.S. Berry ... Redlands, California; date added in ms. ink: 5.V.1940 SCNHRB c. 1 has stamp on front paste-down: G.E. Emery, London, Eng SCNHRB c. 1 has pencilled note [in S.S. Berry's hand] on p. [1] (2nd group) and in ink on p. [365]; some pencilled markings throughout SCNHRB c. 1 with bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Gift of Clyde Roper SCNHRB c. 1 in publisher's embossed brown cloth binding; title in gilt on spine, publisher's advertisements as paste-downs; housed in an archival cardboard box SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015065451) inscribed in ink on original front free endpaper: John Cassin, Philadelphia 1st Oct: 1851 SCNHRB c. 2 inscribed in pencil on t.p.: S.F. Baird. Stamped on added t.p.: Deposit of S.F. Baird SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution Apr 1888 [ms. acc. no.] 131499 SCNHRB c. 2 bound in black library buckram, title in gilt on spine; with a 2nd copy of the t.p. (not exact) bound-in at end