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The first edition of World Book (1917) contained eight volumes. New editions have since appeared every year except 1920, 1924, and 1932, with major revisions in 1929 (13 volumes), 1947 (19 volumes), 1960 (20 volumes), 1971 (22 volumes), and 1988 (new typeface and page design, and some 10,000 new editorial features). [12]
The Childcraft series was originally created in 1934 by W. F. Quarrie & Company, then publishers of the World Book encyclopedia. The series' title was Childcraft – The How and Why Library. Childcraft was created as a sort of encyclopedia for young children. With simple texts and illustrations, the volumes were designed to make learning fun.
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Columnist David Murdock still has his family's prized 1965 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, and recalls pleasant hours reading it.
The set was originally published in 1922 in 8 volumes as Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia by F. E. Compton and Company of Chicago. It was titled "Pictured" because no other encyclopedia at the time had as large or as diverse a collection of illustrations. [2] The encyclopedia was expanded to 10 volumes in 1924 and 15 in 1932.
New World Wide Encyclopedia (1918) World Wide Encyclopedia (1919) New World Encyclopedia (1919) (Link includes vol. 1) Adair's New Encyclopedia (1923) (Link includes vols. 2-5) Time's Encyclopedia and Gazetteer (1929) Twentieth Century Encyclopedia (1930) Worlds Popular Encyclopedia (1937)