Edinburgh Bibliographical Society and National Library of Scotland lecture
Professor Stephen Brown discusses the origins of 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' under William Smellie's editorship, 250 years after the publication of the first edition of 'Britannica' in Edinburgh.
Talk given on Thursday 13 December 2018.
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