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"The audacious, improbable tale of 20th century American hucksterism, outlandish daring, and vision that resurrected a dying Encyclopedia Britannica in collaboration with a floundering London Times, its astonishing success that changed publishing and that produced the Britannica's eleventh edition (published between 1910 and 1911), the most revered edition of English-language encyclopedias (all 44 million words), considered by many to be "the last great work of the age of reason" (Hans Koening, the New Yorker)"--
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Everything explained that is explainable: on the creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's celebrated eleventh edition, 1910-1911
2016
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- First edition.
0307269175 9780307269171
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Table of Contents
Plymouth 1896
The adman
Printing house square
The Cairo correspondent
The assistant manager
The American scheme
Ten
A dinner for Mr. Chisholm
The supplemental volumes
Half a million goats
Anglosphere
Plan B: a book war
Chaos
High Holborn
The single organism
War and peace
The dreadnaught launch
Offenses
Postscript.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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