This is a list of works in the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopædia , edited by Dionysius Lardner.
Volume | Year (of first volume, in set) | Author | Title |
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I, IV | 1830 [1] | Walter Scott | History of Scotland [2] |
II, XI, XVI | William Desborough Cooley [3] | History of Maritime Discovery [2] | |
III, XCIV | Michael Donovan | Domestic Economy. I: A Treatise on Brewing and II: Human Food [2] [4] | |
V | Henry Kater, Lardner | Mechanics [2] | |
VI | Henry Roscoe | Lives of Eminent British Lawyers [2] | |
VII | Cities and Principal Towns of the World [2] | ||
VIII, XVIII, XXXVII, [5] XLII, [6] LXIX, [7] LXXXI, [8] XCV, [9] CIV, [10] CXIII, [11] CXXIV [12] | Sir James Mackintosh, continuation by William Wallace and Robert Bell [13] [14] | History of England [2] | |
IX | 1831 | Anonymous (Thomas Keightley) [15] | Outlines of History [2] |
X | Thomas Colley Grattan | The History of the Netherlands [2] | |
XII, XV, XXIII | Eyre Evans Crowe | History of France [2] | |
XIII, XXXIII [16] | 1830 [17] | Anonymous (Henry Fergus) [18] | The History of the Western World: the United States of America [2] |
XIV | John Herschel | Preliminary Discourse on Natural Philosophy [2] | |
XVII | 1831 [19] | Lardner | Hydrostatics and Pneumatics [2] |
XIX | David Brewster | Treatise on Optics [2] | |
XX | Samuel Astley Dunham [20] | History of Poland [2] | |
XXI, LXXVIII, [21] XCI, [22] XCIX, [23] CI, [23] CVIII, [12] CXV [12] | 1831 [24] | John Forster | The Lives of British Statesmen, [2] also Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth |
XXII | George Richardson Porter [25] | A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the Silk Manufacture [2] | |
XXIV, XLII, [26] LII [27] | John Holland [28] [29] | A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement, and Present State of Manufactures in Metal | |
XXV, XXVIII, [30] XXXVI [31] | 1831 | George Robert Gleig | Lives of the most Eminent British Military Commanders [32] |
XXVI | Porter [28] | History of the Manufacture of Porcelain and Glass | |
XXVII | 1832 | Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi | History of the Italian Republics [33] |
XXIX, XXX, [34] XXXII, [35] XXXV, [36] XXXVIII [37] | 1832 | Dunham [27] | History of Spain and Portugal [38] |
XXXI | 1832 | Anonymous [14] | The History of Switzerland [39] |
XXXIV | 1832 | Donovan | Treatise on Chemistry [40] |
XXXIX | Lardner | A Treatise on Heat [41] | |
XL, XLVII, [42] LVII, [27] LXXXVII, [43] CXXVIII [12] | Robert Southey | The Naval History of England [44] | |
XLI, LII [27] | 1833 | Henry Stebbing | History of the Christian Church |
XLIII | 1833 | Herschel | A Treatise on Astronomy [45] |
XLIV | 1833 | Nicholas Harris Nicolas | Chronology of History [46] |
XLV, XLIX, LIII, LVIII [27] | Dunham [47] | The History of Europe during the Middle Ages [48] | |
XLVI, LXXVI, [49] LXXXII, [50] LXXXIX, [51] CII [23] | Crowe, George Payne Rainsford James [51] [52] | Eminent Foreign Statesmen [42] | |
XLVIII, LXX [53] | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke [3] | History, Arts, Manufactures, Manners and Institutions of Greeks and Romans [42] | |
XLIX, LXXIII [54] | 1833 | Anonymous (Robert Bell) [55] | History of Rome [42] |
LVI, LXI [27] | Sismondi | Fall of the Roman Empire [42] | |
LI [27] | Baden Powell | History of Natural Philosophy [42] | |
LV [27] | Lardner | Treatise on Arithmetic [42] | |
LIX [27] | William Swainson | Discourse on the Study of Natural History [42] | |
LXIII, LXXI, [56] XCVI [12] [57] | By Mary Shelley, Brewster, James Montgomery and others [58] | Lives of Literary Men of Italy, Spain and Portugal [12] [59] | |
LX, LXIV, LXVII [12] [60] | Dunham | History of the Germanic Empire [61] | |
LXV, XC, [62] CXXI, [63] CXXXIII (final volume) 1846 [12] [64] | Thomas Moore | History of Ireland [65] | |
LXVI | Swainson | A Treatise on the Geography of Animals [66] | |
LXVIII, LXXIV, [67] LXXX, [68] LXXXVIII, [69] CIII, [70] CXIV, [11] CXXV, [12] CXXXII [12] | Connop Thirlwall | History of Greece [71] | |
LXXII | 1835 | Swainson | The Natural History and Classification of Quadrupeds [72] |
LXXV | 1836 [73] | John Stevens Henslow | The Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany [74] |
LXXVII, [75] LXXXVI [12] | 1836 | Stebbing | History of the Reformation |
LXXIX, LXXXV, C [23] | 1836 | Robert Bell [47] | A History of Russia [76] |
LXXXIII, XCII [77] | 1836 | Swainson | Natural History and Classification of Birds [78] |
LXXXIV, [79] XCIII, [80] CVI, [12] CXII, [12] CXIX [12] | 1836 | Dunham and others [12] | Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain |
XCVII, CXI [12] | 1837 | John Phillips | A Treatise on Geology [81] |
XCVIII | 1838 | Swainson | Animals in Menagerie [82] |
CV, CXVII [12] | 1838 | Mary Shelley and others | Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France [83] |
CVII | Augustus De Morgan | Essay on Probabilities [12] | |
CIX, CXVI | 1838 | Swainson | Fish, Reptiles and Amphibians [12] |
CX, CXVIII, CXXII [12] | Dunham | History of Norway, Denmark and Sweden [84] | |
CXX | Swainson | Habits and Instincts of Animals [12] | |
CXXIII | Swainson | Shells, and Shell-Fish [12] | |
CXXVI | Swainson | Taxidermy [85] | |
CXXVII | Lardner | Geometry and its Applications [12] | |
CXXIX [12] | 1840 | Swainson and William Edward Shuckard | On the History and Natural Arrangement of Insects [86] |
CXXX, CXXXI [12] | 1841 | Lardner, Charles Vincent Walker | Manual of Electricity, Magnetism and Meteorology |
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