The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information (29 volumes)

Verlag: The Encyclopedia Britannica Company, New York, 1911

Octavo [22 cm] Brown limp leather boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and embossed lettering on the front board. Publisher's brown topstain. Printed on India paper. Very good, with moderate rubbing to the extremities, and a previous owner's name on the pastedowns. Will require extra postage due to the number of volumes. The 11th edition brought a change in both plan and method of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Previous editions had consistently planned to provide comprehensive treatises on major subjects as well as detailed information on particulars and had inevitably lacked coherence because of the method of printing, whereby they appeared in parts over a considerable period of time. The 11th edition, while not seeking to treat major subjects superficially, abandoned the single-treatise plan not only as "cumbrous in a work of reference" but also as liable to omit "specific issues which consequently received no proper treatment." Instead, "the dictionary plan, by automatically providing headings throughout the work, under which, where appropriate, articles of more or less length may be put, enables every subject to be treated, comprehensively or in detail, yet as part of an organic whole, by means of careful articulation adapted to the requirements of an intelligent reader." The splitting up of what would have been treatises in former editions meant that the 11th edition had more than double the number of articles in the ninth 40,000 instead of 17,000 although the text was not much longer. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 66745

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of...
Verlag: The Encyclopedia Britannica Company, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1911
Einband: Leather bound
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: Eleventh Edition; Handy Volume Issue.