Robin Netherton wrote:
Saragrace Knauf wrote:
The online version lists at least 3 volumes....
Sg
What am I missing? I downloaded a 30MB .pdf. It ends abruptly at p.272
midsentence.
OK, answering my own question. The link forwarded to the list was to Volume 1,
part 1. There are also pages for Vol. 1, part 2:
http://www.archive.org/details/p2cyclopediaofc01planuoft
Vol 2, part 1:
http://www.archive.org/details/p1cyclopediaofco02planuoft
and Vol. 2, part 2:
http://www.archive.org/details/p2cyclopediaofco02planuoft
Still, there are only two volumes. This library's copy (according to the
listing) has been split and bound into four books. The split of Volume 1 is
hardly thoughtful, as the first book ends midsentence on p. 272, in the middle
of "Head-Dress." Part 2 picks up with p. 273, nothing before that, and ends on
p. 527, although there are two plates stuck at the end (one of them scanned
upside-down). I haven't looked to see where the rest of the plates are bound,
or if they're missing.
Volume 2, the General History, is also split midsentence, between pages 216
and 217 (out of a total of 448).
This will be really useful to have at home. I've spent way too much time with
it at way too many libraries ... but I wouldn't recommend it for anything but
entertainment. I use it mostly for tracking down the origins of costume myths.
--Robin
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