James Wood (encyclopedist)

James Wood (encyclopedist)

The Reverend James Wood was the editor of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.

According to the title page of the encyclopedia, Wood was also the editor of "Nuttall's Standard Dictionary" and the compiler of a "Dictionary of Quotations".

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