104. The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures.
Vol. I. THE / REPERTORY / OF / ARTS AND MANUFACTURES:
/ CONSISTING OF / ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS, /
SPECIFICATIONS OF PATENT INVENTIONS, / AND / SELECTIONS
OF USEFUL PRACTICAL PAPERS / FROM THE /
TRANSACTIONS / OF THE / PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES /
OF ALL NATIONS, &c. &c. / VOL. I. / LONDON: / PRINTED
FOR G. AND T. WILKIE, AND G. G. AND J. ROBERTSON, /
PATERNOSTER-ROW: P. ELMSLY, STRAND; / W. RICHARDSON,
CORNHILL; J. DEBRETT, PICADILLY; / AND J. BELL,
NO. 148, OXFORD-STREET. / 1794.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii);
[new pagination:] note (i-iv); text, with 25 engraved plates inserted
(1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. II. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. II. / . . . / 1795.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii);
text, with 24 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. III. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. III. / . . . / PRINTED
FOR THE PROPRIETORS; / AND SOLD BY T. HEPTINSTALL,
NO. 131, FLEET-STREET; / G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW;
P. ELMSLY, / STRAND; W. RICHARDSON,
CORNHILL; J. DEBRETT, / PICADILLY; AND J. BELL, NO. 148,
OXFORD-STREET. / . . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 24 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. IV. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. IV. / . . . / 1796.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 23 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. V. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. V. / . . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 23 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. VI. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. VI. / . . . / 1797.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 22 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. VII. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. VII. / . . . / AND
SOLD BY H. LOWNDES, No. 77, FLEET-STREET / T. HEPTINSTALL,
NO. 304, HOLBORN; / . . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 21 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. VIII. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. VIII. / . . . /
PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS; / AND SOLD BY H. LOWNDES,
NO. 77, FLEET-STREET; / G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW;
P. ELMSLY, / STRAND; W. RICHARDSON,
CORNHILL; J. DEBRETT, / PICADILLY; AND J. BELL, NO. 148,
OXFORD-STREET. / 1798.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 22 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. IX. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. IX. / . . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 18 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-440).
Vol. X. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. X. / LONDON: /
PRINTED FOR, AND SOLD BY, THE PROPRIETORS, / NO. 182,
FLEET-STREET; WHERE COMMUNICATIONS FOR / THIS
WORK ARE REQUESTED TO BE ADDRESSED. / 1799.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 21 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. XI. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XI. / . . . / PRINTED
BY JOHN NICHOLS, / RED-LION-PASSAGE, FLEET-STREET, /
FOR, AND SOLD BY, THE PROPRIETORS, NO. 182, FLEET-/
STREET; WHERE COMMUNICATIONS FOR THIS / WORK
ARE REQUESTED TO BE ADDRESSED. / . . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 19 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. XII. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XII. / . . . / 1800.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 19 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. XIII. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XIII. / . . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 18 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. XIV. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XIV. / . . . / 1801.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 20 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. XV. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XV. / . . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 20 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Vol. XVI. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XVI. / . . . / 1802.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text,
with 16 plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).
Of the engraved plates, a few are folding in each volume.
At the very beginning of this journal the publishers say:
Of the work now offered to the public, one of the principle objects is, to establish
a vehicle, by means of which new discoveries and improvements, in any
of the useful Arts and Manufactures, may be transmitted to the public; particularly
to Artists, Manufacturers, and others, who, from various circumstances
frequently attending those discoveries and improvements, (such as
their being announced in a bulky or expensive publication, or in a foreign
language) might otherwise have but little chance of ever becoming acquainted
with them. Yet, though novelty will be regarded as an important consideration,
the general utility of a subject will always be looked upon as one of equal
if not of greater, consequences. [I, (new pagination:) i]
In the sixteen volumes there are some fifty-three articles that relate,
mostly in a utilitarian way, to the fine arts. The architectural and building
subjects include such things as heat, materials, bridges of iron, and
colors. There are articles on stucco (III, 1); on fireplaces (IV, 226); on
boring wooden water pipes or aqueducts, a problem which was to concern
Jefferson quite a lot during the building of the University (IX, 45); on
laying water pipes (X, 251); on water closets (XI, 237); on the making
of bricks (XIII, 148); on bridges, warehouses, etc., without wood, i.e.,
out of cast iron (XIV, 145); on a speedy elevator (XV, 26); and on
painting with milk (XV, 411). Count Rumford (see No. 109) has a
good many articles, some on heat, which seems to have been a favorite
subject with the Repertory.
The nonarchitectural and nonpainterly articles cover a considerable
range. A typical one is "Specifications of Mr. Unwin's Patent for rendering
Soap-suds, after being used in scouring, &c. capable of serving
again" (IV, 168).
Jefferson's order for the University in the section on "Technical
Arts" of the want list called for fifteen volumes only. He was apparently
thinking only of the first series, or else was ignorant of the fact that the
journal ran much longer. As a result of the original order, the University
actually received more than the sixteen volumes in its first years of operation.
Of the first series of the original set a mutilated copy of the
fourth volume survives. The library, however, has recently acquired a
duplicate set of the sixteen volumes, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation.
U. Va.
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