Talk:Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts

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Merge proposal

The 1866 Tomlinson's is a largely different work than the 1852 version (38% larger). The scholarship is a decade later.

Although I own a copy of the 1866 version, I don't own a copy of the 1852 version.

It would be nice to have the guidance of an editor who has access to both — it's possible the other article is written from a bookseller's synopsis, and not by a Wiki editor who's read it. There's "marketing" language which -- I'm guessing -- either inappropriately describes the focus of the 1852 edition ("devised to celebrate the Great Exhibition" and "enormous range of topics from a British perspective") or describes a work which substantially differs.

There are some related issues in the "Cyclopedia" discussion Section "Old and New versions of cyclopedia" [1]

Regards, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 16:18, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]