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The Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition (1777–1784) is a 10-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's earliest period as a two-man operation founded by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell , in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was sold unbound in subscription format over a period ...
The encyclopaedia grew in size; the second edition was 10 volumes, [2] and by its fourth edition (1801–1810), it had expanded to 20 volumes. [3] Its rising stature as a scholarly work helped recruit eminent contributors, and the 9th (1875–1889) and 11th editions (1911) are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary style.
Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell began the first edition in 1768. [2] The pair engaged William Smellie, who produced most of the articles in the first edition. [2] The second edition was published in 1784. [2] After Macfarquhar's death in 1793, Bell became its sole proprietor and published the third and fourth editions. [2] [3]
The Second Edition added over 3,000 new words, senses and phrases drawn from the Oxford English Corpus. [1] The New Oxford American Dictionary is the American version of the Oxford Dictionary of English, with substantial editing and uses a diacritical respelling scheme rather than the IPA system. [citation needed]
The Chambers Dictionary (TCD) was first published by William and Robert Chambers as Chambers's English Dictionary in 1872. It was an expanded version of Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of 1867, compiled by James Donald. A second edition came out in 1898, and was followed in 1901 by a new compact edition called Chambers's Twentieth Century ...
When finished in 1784, complete sets were sold at Charles Elliot's bookshop in Edinburgh for 10 pounds, unbound. More than 1,500 copies of the second edition were sold this way by Elliot in less than one year, [11] making the second edition enough of a financial success that a more ambitious third edition was begun a few years later.