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  2. List of encyclopedias by date - Wikipedia

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    Adab al-katib (The book of knowledge) by Ibn Qutayba (828–889); the earliest Arabic work that could be called an encyclopedia [dubious – discuss] Bibliotheca by Patriarch Photius (9th century), the earliest Byzantine work that could be called an encyclopedia; Hrabanus Maurus, 842. De rerum naturis (On the nature of things), derived from ...

  3. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have been sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century St Cuthbert Gospel , to a 21st-century autograph manuscript of J. K. Rowling ...

  4. World Book Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. On the World Book Encyclopedia (and a little bit of ... - AOL

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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.

  6. List of English-language 20th-century general encyclopedias

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    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)

  7. Bibliography of encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    Webster's New World Encyclopedia. Prentice Hall. 1992. [153] Webster's New World Encyclopedia College Edition. Prentice Hall. 1993. [154] Webster's New World Encyclopedia: Pocket Edition. Prentice Hall. 1993. [155] Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 2001–. Available online here. [44] Wonderland of Knowledge.

  8. If you own a copy of this famous Mark Twain book with a typo ...

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    In the first printed issue of the novel, the word 'Decides' was misprinted as 'Decided', and the word 'saw' is mistyped as 'was' on page 57.

  9. History of encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    A 1961 World Book ad said, "You are holding your family’s future in your hands right now," while showing a feminine hand holding an order form. [ 17 ] The second half of the 20th century also saw the publication of several encyclopedias that were notable for synthesizing important topics in specific fields, often by means of new works ...