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The World of Men and Things
MacDonald, William | October 23, 1929 issue

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This article presents information on the fourteenth edition of book "The Encyclopaedia Britannica. A New Survey of Universal Knowledge." It is a far cry from 1768, when the first edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" began to appear in six-penny numbers, to the present year of grace which sees the publication of the fourteenth edition in twenty-four stout and handsome volumes, revised and largely rewritten torn beginning to end. Lovers of statistics will doubtless be glad to know that this is the first thoroughgoing revision since the eleventh edition of 1910, the twelfth and thirteenth having been made by adding supplements.

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ENCYCLOPAEDIA Britannica (Book); BOOKS; ENCYCLOPEDIAS & dictionaries; REFERENCE books; REFERENCE sources; STATISTICS
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