Encyclopædia Britannica (third edition)

The third edition (1797) of the Encyclopædia Britannica was an encyclopedia published in eighteen volumes in quarto by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, in Edinburgh, Scotland. It represented a continuation of the encyclopedia founded by Bell and Macfarquhar in 1768. The third edition was the largest general encyclopedia to date in the English language, and the first one compiled by more than a handful of contributors.

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