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The largest online encyclopedias are general reference works, though there are also many specialized ones. Some online encyclopedias are editions of a print encyclopedia, such as Encyclopædia Britannica, whereas others have always existed online, such as Wikipedia.
Britannica's Tales Around the World, written by Douglas Lieberman, teaches kids a familiar fairy tale from around the world, followed by two lesser-known stories that share a similar theme. The series opens up in a computer-generated landscape, containing a floating castle and the planet Earth in the background.
Home and Office Reference Book of Facts (1913) New Complete Condensed Encyclopedia (1909), a re-issue of Chandler's Encyclopedia (1898) Werner Encyclopedia (1909), a reprint of the 9th edition of the Britannica. Anglo-American Encyclopedia (1911) Winston's Encyclopedia (1909) Winston's Cumulative Loose Leaf Encyclopedia (1912) Encyclopedia ...
Unified Encyclopedia: A Modern Reference Library of Unified Knowledge for the Parent, Student and Young Reader. Unified Encyclopedia Press, 1960–64. [145] The Universal World Reference Encyclopedia. Consolidated Book Publishers, 1945–70. [145] The Usborne Children's Encyclopedia. Elliott, Jane (1987). EDC Publishing. [149]
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. initially owned Compton's Encyclopedia from 1961 to 1993, and later reacquired it in 2002. Britannica had sold its Compton's interests to the Tribune Company in 1993, and for a time Compton's Encyclopedia was a product of The Learning Company, which purchased Broderbund in 1998.
Printed for 244 years, the Britannica was the longest-running in-print encyclopaedia in the English language. It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh , Scotland, in three volumes. The encyclopaedia grew in size; the second edition was 10 volumes, [ 38 ] and by its fourth edition (1801–1810), it had expanded to 20 volumes. [ 39 ]
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Advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, 1913. The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions. Several editions have been amended with multi-volume "supplements" (third, fifth/sixth), consisted of previous editions with added supplements (10th, and 12th/13th) or gone drastic re-organizations (15th).