Sammy Jay presents this first edition Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences compiled upon a new plan.
Contributors to this first edition included many of the leading lights of the Scottish Enlightenment movement such as David Hume, James Balfour, George Campbell, Lord Kames, and Sir James Steuart. The long article, nearly 50 pages in length, on bookkeeping, is by John Mair.
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