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ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA! (American Britannica). Some books marked Copyright 1903-1906 and some 1904-1906 by editor in chief Frederick Converse Beach. 15 Vol set(out of 16). Missing volume #3. Volume #11 spine start separating. All pages intact. Volume #7 eight pages separated from spine. Volume #16 front cover is separating but still attached. Overal good condition considering age. Normal shelf wear. See pictures to evaluate condition for yourself. Can send more pictures per your request. Estate find. Selling as is as found as seen in the pictures. EACH BOOK WEIGHTS AROUND 6.5 POUNDS. TOTAL WEIGHT WILL BE AROUND 110 POUNDS OR SO INCLUDING BOXES. FREE SHIPPING (around $80.00-$100.00 cost to me) WILL SHIP VIA MEDIA MAIL IN AT LEAST 3 or 4 or 5 SEPARATE BOXES. Based on my research i believe exact same set(complete 16vol) was sold for $2000.00 by [ari.books]. See their 10/26/19 listing Encyclopedia Americana Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by Scholastic. Encyclopædia Americana AuthorFrancis Lieber (1800–1872)LanguageEnglishSubjectGeneralPublished1829–33[1] The encyclopedia has more than 45,000 articles, most of them more than 500 words and many running to considerable length (the "United States" article is over 300,000 words). The work's coverage of American and Canadian geography and history has been a traditional strength. Written by 6,500 contributors, the Encyclopedia Americana includes over 9,000 bibliographies, 150,000 cross-references, 1,000+ tables, 1,200 maps, and almost 4,500 black-and-white line art and color images. It also has 680 factboxes. Most articles are signed by their contributors. Long available as a 30-volume print set, the Encyclopedia Americana is now marketed as an online encyclopedia requiring a subscription. In March 2008, Scholastic said that print sales remained good but that the company was still deciding on the future of the print edition.[2] The company did not produce an edition in 2007, a change from its previous approach of releasing a revised print edition each year. The most recent print edition of the Encyclopedia Americana was published in 2006. The online version of the Encyclopedia Americana, first introduced in 1997, continues to be updated and sold. This work, like the print set from which it is derived, is designed for high school and first-year college students along with public library users. It is available to libraries as one of the options in the Grolier Online reference service, which also includes the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, intended for middle and high school students, and The New Book of Knowledge, an encyclopedia for elementary and middle school students. Grolier Online is not available to individual subscribers. History and predecessors This 1921 advertisement for the Encyclopedia Americana suggests that other encyclopedias are as out-of-date as the locomotives of 90 years earlier. There have been three separate works using the title Encyclopedia Americana. The first began publishing in the 1820s by the German exile Francis Lieber. The 13 volumes of the first edition were completed in 1833, and other editions and printings followed in 1835, 1836, 1847-1848, 1849 and 1858. Lieber's work was based upon and was in no small part a translation of the 7th edition of the well established Konversations-Lexikon of Brockhaus. Some material from this set was carried over into the modern version, as well as the Brockhaus short article method. A separate Encyclopedia Americana was published by J.M. Stoddart between 1883 and 1889, as a supplement to American reprintings of the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was four quarto volumes meant to "extend and complete the articles in Britannica".[5] Stoddart's work, however, is not connected to the earlier work by Lieber. In 1902 a new version in 16 volumes was published under the title Encyclopedia Americana, under the editorial supervision of Scientific American magazine. The magazine's editor, Frederick Converse Beach, was editor-in-chief, and was said to be assisted by hundreds of eminent scholars and authorities who served as consulting editors or authors. The first publisher was R.S. Peale & Co; between 1903 and 1906 further editions were issued by the Americana Corp. and the Scientific American Compiling Department, with George Edwin Rines appointed managing editor in 1903.[7] The relationship with Scientific American was terminated in 1911.[8] From 1907 to 1912, the work was published as The Americana. A major new edition appeared in 1918–20 in 30 volumes, with George Edwin Rines as editor-in-chief.[7] An Annual or Yearbook was also published each year beginning in 1923 and continuing until 2000. The encyclopedia was purchased by Grolier in 1945. By the 1960s, sales of the Americana and its sister publications under Grolier—The Book of Knowledge, the Book of Popular Science, and Lands and Peoples—were strong enough to support the company's occupancy of a large building (variously named the Americana Building and the Grolier Building) in Midtown Manhattan, at 575 Lexington Avenue. Sales during this period were accomplished primarily through mail-order and door-to-door operations. Telemarketing and third-party distribution through their Lexicon division added to sales volumes in the 1970s. By the late 1970s, Grolier had moved its operations to Danbury, Connecticut.