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Some carry-over from 8th edition, but mostly a new work; high point of scholarship; 10,000 sets sold by Britannica and 45,000 authorized sets made in the US by Little, Brown in Boston and Schribners' Sons in NY, but pirated widely (500,000 sets) in the US. 3: 10th, supplement to 9th 1902–1903 11 volumes, plus the 24 volumes of the 9th.
Domestic Encyclopedia (1802) Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia (1802, second edition 1811) Rees's Cyclopædia (1802–1819) Encyclopædia Perthensis (Perth, Scotland, 1803;1816) Encyclopædia Britannica (fourth edition, 1810; ninth edition by 1889) Edinburgh Encyclopædia (1808–1830) British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1809)
Weedon's Modern Encyclopedia (1931) a non-Britannica publication that was bought out and repackaged by Britannica as Britannica Junior (1934) Great Books of the Western World (1952) Children's Britannica (1960) aimed at ages seven to 14. Gateway to the Great Books (1963) Young Children's Encyclopaedia (1970) for children just learning to read
In 1962, the new 24-volume Collier's Encyclopedia was priced at $299.50, payable over 3 years, or at a daily cost of 27 cents. [12] The average cost of a pack of cigarettes that year was also 27 cents. [13] This was an affordable price for middle and low income families. For many families, owning a set of Collier's Encyclopedia became a status ...
The Syntopicon was created to set the Great Books collection apart from previously published sets (such as The Harvard Classics).Robert Hutchins, at the time, in addition to being the president of the University of Chicago, also served as chairman of the Board of Editors of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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. In March 2002 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. "acquired an exclusive license to publish and distribute Compton's Encyclopedia in print and CD-ROM from ...
General interest regarding Canada and Canadiana (original content of the hard copy Canadian Encyclopedia) Free Chalo Chatu: English Collaborative online encyclopedia hosted by Chalo Chatu Foundation featuring comprehensive articles on Zambian culture and history, etc. Free Culinary Heritage of Switzerland: German, French, Italian, Romansh
The so-called New Encyclopædia Britannica (or Britannica 3) had a unique three-part organization: a single Propædia (Primer for Education) volume, which aimed to provide an outline of "all known information"; a 10-volume Micropædia (Small Education) of 102,214 short articles (strictly less than 750 words); and a 19-volume Macropædia (Large ...
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