ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA-11TH & 12TH EDITIONS-All 32 Volumes-Reference Books-DVD

Description: You are about to purchase the ELEVENTH & TWELFTH Editions (All 32 Volumes) of The Encyclopedia Britannica on DVD disk. This PDF eBook version contains over 25,000 pages and is a great value! (This is NOT an audio CD) This scan is superior to others on eBay due to its clarity, and it is also searchable and copy/pastable for easy navigation. Shipping is FREE. Not sure what an "eBook" is? See a thorough description at the end of this page. The Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition (1910) 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 revived the practice of the third edition of dedication to the king and added to the name of George V that of William Howard Taft, president of the United States; this dual dedication thereafter became standard. Each volume contained not a select list of articles with authors (as in the ninth and 10th editions) but a key to the abbreviated symbols indicating the authors writing in that volume, together with the titles of articles signed by them, and a list of the principal unsigned articles. In addition, at the end of the 29th volume there was a complete list of authors followed by their symbols and the chief articles they had written. The index occupied most of the 29th volume. There was not a separate atlas, the maps being distributed throughout the volumes on plates or folding papers. Twelfth edition Edited by Hugh Chisholm in London and by Franklin Hooper in New York, three new volumes appeared in 1922. The new volumes were numbered 30–32, to follow on from the reprinted 11th edition, which together with them forms the 12th edition. The index to and contributors’ list for the three volumes were at the end of volume 32. The edition provided “an international stock-taking, by carefully selected authorities, of the march of events all over the world from 1909–10 to 1920–21, and of the nature and critical value of such advances as were made in the principal branches of knowledge during that period.” The list of contributors was broadened by the inclusion of statesmen such as Tomáš Masaryk (“Czechoslovakia”). There were frequent references to volumes and pages of the 11th edition, but the 12th edition was also intended to stand alone as a work of reference to the 12 years from 1910 to 1921. The publisher was William J. Cox, Hooper’s brother-in-law, who, together with Hooper’s widow, bought back the ownership of the encyclopaedia from Sears, Roebuck and Co. in 1923. 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