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The Britannica was first published between December 1768 [13] and 1771 in Edinburgh as the Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon a New Plan. In part, it was conceived in reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (published 1751–1772), which had been inspired by ...
The Britannica was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in three volumes, with printer William Smellie serving as its principal editor. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] By 1988, the encyclopedia grew to consist of 32 volumes in total, [ 2 ] but later stopped printing physical copies to focus on the online edition in 2012. [ 4 ]
Advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, 1913. The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions. Several editions have been amended with multi-volume "supplements" (third, fifth/sixth), consisted of previous editions with added supplements (10th, and 12th/13th) or gone drastic re-organizations (15th).
The set was designed to be an introduction to the Great Books of the Western World, published by the same organization and editors in 1952. The set included selections of short stories, plays, essays, letters, and extracts from longer works by more than one hundred authors.
The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771) is a 3-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 of ...
Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. She is best known for two collections of stories, A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). Her stories deal mostly with New England life
Patricio Pron (born December 9, 1975) is an Argentine literary writer and critic translated into a dozen languages including English, German, French and Italian.Granta magazine selected him in 2010 as one of the 22 best young writers in Spanish of his generation.
Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell (21 April 1901 – 27 July 1983) was an English writer best known for her creation of Mrs Bradley, the heroine of 66 detective novels.She also wrote under the pseudonyms Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie.