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THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA! COMPLETE in 20 MASSIVE VOLUMES! Some of the hinges are completely cracked externally, and only held on by the inside. See the last two pictures. This may be bothersome. On the shelf it’s hard to tell. Otherwise this is an exceptional set. If the hinge damage is bothersome please do not purchase thus set. Printed in 1910! This set is well over 100 years old! These are MASSIVE books! Measuring 10 inches tall and over 2 inches thick! Each book will be individually wrapped and well protected for shipping via Priority Mail. THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. Edited by: Frank Moore Colby, Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck. Bound in the original leather bindings. Top edge gilded. Marbled end-papers. These are particularly large, heavy books at 10'' tall and over 2" thick. Complete 20 volume (extra thick volumes) set. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York. Printed in 1910. CONDITION: some of the hinges are completely cracked and only held on from the inside. This may be bothersome. If all the hinges were sound thus sells at $2000. Set is complete in 20 volumes. This is a MASSIVE and heavy set. Overall in excellent condition for it's age. All hinges attached, some are completely cracked, many are starting, held firmly in place internally, by publisher's extra reinforced hinges. Some general rubbing. Clean, bright interior. About free of foxing. Very tightly bound text blocks. No writing or signs of previous ownership. Some of the hinges are completely cracked externally, and only held on by the inside. See the last two pictures. This may be bothersome. On the shelf it’s hard to tell. Otherwise this is an exceptional set. If the hinge damage is bothersome please do not purchase thus set. CONDITION: Set is complete in 20 volumes. This is a MASSIVE and heavy set. Overall in excellent condition for it's age. All hinges attached, some are cracked or show starting, held firmly in place internally, by publisher's extra reinforced hinges. Some general rubbing. Clean, bright interior. About free of foxing. Very tightly bound text blocks. No writing or signs of previous ownership. Each volume contains many color plates and fold-out maps. Stunning illustrations. Vol. I contains a two-page fold-out world map frontis. An in-depth, comprehensive encyclopedia comparable or superior to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Covers history and content from all around the world. Spine contents are particularly compelling, spelled out with titles vs letters, with the likes of: Classics, Da Vinci,... Vampire, etc.. as opposed to the more common lettering, A-B C-D... This is set limited #6491, according to publisher's stamp on copyright page. A well preserved set for it's age, no other sets presently listed elsewhere. 3488 The New International Encyclopedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to search The New International Encyclopedia was an American encyclopedia first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company. It descended from the International Cyclopaedia (1884) and was updated in 1906, 1914 and 1926. Contents 1History 2References 2.1Sources 2.2Sources 3External links First edition, volume eight The New International Encyclopedia was the successor of the International Cyclopaedia (1884). Initially, The International Cyclopaedia was largely a reprint of Alden's Library of Universal Knowledge , which was a reprint of the British Chambers's Encyclopaedia . The title was changed to The New International Encyclopedia in 1902, with editors Harry Thurston Peck, Daniel Coit Gilman, and Frank Moore Colby.[1] The encyclopedia was popular and reprints were made in 1904, 1905, 1907 (corrected and expanded to 20 volumes), 1909 and 1911. The 2nd edition appeared from 1914 to 1917 in 24 volumes. With Peck and Gilman deceased, Colby was joined by a new editor, Talcott Williams.[1] This edition was set up from new type and thoroughly revised. It was very strong in biography.[2] A third edition was published in 1923, however this was mostly a reprint with the addition of a history of the First World War in volume 24, which had previously been a reading and study guide. A two-volume supplement was published in 1925 and was incorporated into the 1927 reprint, which had 25 volumes. A further two volumes supplement in 1930 along with another reprint.[3] The final edition was published in 1935, now under the Funk & Wagnalls label. This edition included another updating supplement, authored by Herbert Treadwell Wade. Some material from The New International would be incorporated into future books published by Funk and Wagnall's books such as Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopaedia .[3] The 1926 material was printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Yale University Press. Boston Bookbinding Company of Cambridge produced the covers. Thirteen books enclosing 23 volumes comprise the encyclopedia, which includes a supplement after Volume 23. Each book contains about 1600 pages.[4] Like other encyclopedias of the time, The New International had a yearly supplement, The New International Yearbook , beginning in 1908. Like the encyclopedia itself, this publication was sold to Funk and Wagnalls in 1931. It was edited by Frank Moore Colby until his death in 1925, and then by Wade. In 1937 Frank Horace Vizetellybecame editor.[3] The yearbook outlasted the parent encyclopedia, running to 1966.[5][ incomplete short citation ] More than 500 men and women submitted and composed the information contained in The New International Encyclopedia . New American Cyclopædia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to searchTitle page from the New American Cyclopædia (1858) The New American Cyclopædia was an encyclopedia created and published by D. Appleton & Company of New York in 16 volumes, which initially appeared between 1858 and 1863. Its primary editors were George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana. The New American Cyclopædia was revised and republished as the American Cyclopædia in 1873.[1] Contents 1Overview 2Contributors 3Annual yearbook 4Publication history 5References 6Further reading 7See also 8External links The New American Cyclopædia was a general encyclopedia with a special focus on subjects related to the United States. As it was created over the years spanning the American Civil War, the focus and tone of articles could change drastically; for example, Jefferson Davis, the future president of the Confederate States of America, was treated at length as a United States Army soldier and US government politician.[2] As was traditional, the entire set was re-issued with the publication in 1863 of the 16th volume. The whole Cyclopædia was again re-issued in 1864. A notable contributor was Karl Marx, then a European correspondent for the New York Tribune , who, appeared as the writer, while most of those articles were written by Friedrich Engels, especially the articles on military affairs,[3] which belonged in Engels' domain in the division of labor between the two friends. Because of his deep knowledge of all things military, Engels had earned the nickname "General".[3] Marx wrote a highly unsympathetic biographical article on Simon Bolivar.[3][4] Other prominent contributors to the first edition included[5] • Charles Allen • Samuel G. Arnold • Alexander Dallas Bache • William Bross • George Bancroft • Benjamin Fordyce Barker • John R. Bartlett • Gunning S. Bedford • Jeremiah S. Black • George S. Blake • Lorin Blodget • Edmund Blunt • Dion Boucicault • Orestes Brownson • B. Gratz Brown • Rev. George Bush • Charles P. Daly • Charles Anderson Dana • James D. Dana • Richard Henry Dana Jr. • Charles H. Davis • Adolph Douai • John William Draper • Lyman C. Draper • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Edward Everett • Horace Greeley • George Washington Greene • Joseph Henry • Henry W. Herbert • Rev. Thomas Hill • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. • James Russell Lowell • Charles Nordhoff • Henry Steel Olcott • Frederick Law Olmsted • Theophilus Parsons • Rafael Pombo • Hermann Raster • William H. Seward • Charles Sprague • Henry B. Stanton • Miss Rose Terry • Rev. Thomas Thayer • Alexander Thayer • William Sydney Thayer • John Reuben Thompson • Richard Grant White • Sidney Willard • E. L. Youmans An associated yearbook, Appletons' Annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year , was published from 1861 to 1875 and on to 1901.[6] The cyclopaedia was revived under the title American Cyclopædia in 1873-6. A final edition was issued in 1883-4, which added supplements to each volume of the 1873 edition. Two analytical indexes were published separately in 1878 and 1884.[7] Encyclopedia Americana From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis article is about the modern version. For the 19th-century encyclopedia, see Encyclopædia Americana (Lieber).[hide] This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article needs to be updated . (May 2014) This article needs additional citations for verification . (February 2016) Encyclopædia AmericanaAuthorFrancis Lieber (1800-1872)LanguageEnglishSubjectGeneralPublished1829-33[1] 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. 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. Contents [hide] 1History 2Later developments 3Editors in Chief 4See also 5References 6External links This 1921 advertisement for the Encyclopedia Americana suggests that other encyclopedias are as out-of-date as the locomotives of 90 years earlier. "Francis Lieber (1800-1872), a German political exile, who came to Boston, Massachusetts in 1827, began publication of Encyclopedia Americana in 1829. [3] 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 […] The last three editions included a supplementary fourteenth volume.[…] Just before the beginning of the 20th century Richard S. Peale, publisher of various subscription sets […] entered into a cooperative arrangement with Munn and Company, of New York City, publisher of Scientific American , for the production of the Encyclopedia Americana , under their sponsorship. Some of the old material was carried over into the new encyclopedia. The short article method of Brockhaus was continued."[4] Thus in 1902 a new version in 16 volumes that carried over some of the old material was published, 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.[5] The relationship with Scientific American was terminated in 1911.[6] 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.[5] 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. In 1988 Grolier was purchased by the French media company Hachette, which owned a well-known French-language encyclopedia, the Hachette Encyclopedia . Hachette was later absorbed by the French conglomerate the Lagardère Group. A CD-ROM version of the encyclopedia was published in 1995. Although the text and images were stored on separate disks, it was in keeping with standards current at the time. More importantly, the work had been digitized, allowing for release of an online version in 1997. Over the next few years the product was augmented with additional features, functions, supplementary references, Internet links, and current events journal. A redesigned interface and partly reengineered product, featuring enhanced search capabilities and a first-ever ADA-compliant, text-only version for users with disabilities, was presented in 2002. The acquisition of Grolier by Scholastic for US$400 million, took place in 2000. The new owners projected a 30% increase in operating income, although historically Grolier had experienced earnings of 7% to 8% on income.[7] Staff reductions as a means of controlling costs followed soon thereafter, even while an effort was made to augment the sales force. Cuts occurred every year between 2000 and 2007, leaving a much-depleted work force to carry out the duties of maintaining a large encyclopedia database.[8] Today, Encyclopedia Americana lives on as an integral database within the Grolier Online product. • Frederick Converse Beach, 1902–1917. Engineer and editor of Scientific American magazine. • George Edwin Rines, 1917–1920. Author and editor. • A. H. McDannald, 1920–1948. Reporter ( Baltimore News and Baltimore Evening Sun ), editor, and author. • Lavinia P. Dudley, 1948–1964. Editor ( Encyclopædia Britannica and Encyclopedia Americana ) and manager; first woman to head a major American reference publication. • George A. Cornish, 1965–1970. Reporter ( New York Herald Tribune ) and editor. • Bernard S. Cayne, 1970–1980. Educational researcher (Educational Testing Service, Harvard Educational Review ), editor (Ginn & Co., Collier's Encyclopedia , Macmillan) and business executive (Grolier Inc.). • Alan H. Smith, 1980–1985. Editor (Grolier/ Encyclopedia Americana ) • David T. Holland, 1985–1991. Editor (Harcourt Brace, Grolier/ Encyclopedia Americana ). • Mark Cummings, 1991–2000. Editor (Macmillan, Oxford University Press). • Michael Shally-Jensen, 2000–2005. Editor (Merriam-Webster/ Encyclopædia Britannica ). • K. Anne Ranson, 2005–2006. Editor ( Academic American Encyclopedia , Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia ). • Joseph M. Castagno, 2006–present. Editor (Grolier/ Lands and Peoples , New Book of Popular Science ). • Lists of encyclopedias Encyclopædia Britannica From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"Britannica" redirects here. For other uses, see Britannica (disambiguation).Encyclopædia Britannica Britannica 's thistle logoAuthorAs of 2008, 4,411 named contributorsIllustratorSeveral; initial engravings by Andrew BellCountryUnited Kingdom (1768–1901) United States (1901–present)LanguageEnglishSubjectGeneralPublished 1st through 6th editions (1768–1826): private publishers such as Andrew Bell, Archibald Constable, and Colin Macfarquhar 7th through 9th editions (1827–1901): A & C Black 10th through 14th editions (1901–1973): American businesses, including Sears Roebuck and the Benton Foundation 15th edition: Benton Foundation and Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.(as a separate entity, alongside Britannica.com Inc.) PublisherEncyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Official sitePublication date1768–2010 (printed version)Media type32 volumes, hardbound (15th edition, 2010); now only available digitallyPages32,640 (15th edition, 2010)ISBN1-59339-292-3OCLC71783328Dewey Decimal031LC ClassAE5 .E363 2007Text Encyclopædia Britannica at Wikisource The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It is written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors, who have included 110 Nobel Prize winners and five American presidents. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes[1] and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition; digital content and distribution has continued since then. The Britannica is the oldest English-language encyclopaedia still in production. It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, as three volumes. The encyclopaedia grew in size: the second edition was 10 volumes, and by its fourth edition (1801–1810) it had expanded to 20 volumes. Its rising stature as a scholarly work helped recruit eminent contributors, and the 9th (1875–1889) and 11th editions (1911) are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary style. Beginning with the 11th edition and following its acquisition by an American firm, the Britannica shortened and simplified articles to broaden its appeal to the North American market. In 1933, the Britannica became the first encyclopaedia to adopt "continuous revision", in which the encyclopaedia is continually reprinted, with every article updated on a schedule. In March 2012, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. announced it would no longer publish printed editions, and would focus instead on Encyclopædia Britannica Online . The 15th edition has a three-part structure: a 12-volume Micropædia of short articles (generally fewer than 750 words), a 17-volume Macropædia of long articles (two to 310 pages), and a single Propædia volume to give a hierarchical outline of knowledge. The Micropædia is meant for quick fact-checking and as a guide to the Macropædia ; readers are advised to study the Propædia outline to understand a subject's context and to find more detailed articles. Over 70 years, the size of the Britannica has remained steady, with about 40 million words on half a million topics. Though published in the United States since 1901, the Britannica has for the most part maintained British English spelling. As the Britannica is a general encyclopaedia, it does not seek to compete with specialised encyclopaedias such as the Encyclopaedia of Mathematics or the Dictionary of the Middle Ages , which can devote much more space to their chosen topics. In its first years, the Britannica' s main competitor was the general encyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers and, soon thereafter, Rees's Cyclopædia and Coleridge's Encyclopædia Metropolitana . In the 20th century, successful competitors included Collier's Encyclopedia , the Encyclopedia Americana , and the World Book Encyclopedia . Nevertheless, from the 9th edition onwards, the Britannica was widely considered to have the greatest authority of any general English language encyclopaedia,[65] especially because of its broad coverage and eminent authors.[3][5] The print version of the Britannica was significantly more expensive than its competitors.[3][5] Since the early 1990s, the Britannica has faced new challenges from digital information sources. The Internet, facilitated by the development of search engines, has grown into a common source of information for many people, and provides easy access to reliable original sources and expert opinions, thanks in part to initiatives such as Google Books, MIT's release of its educational materials and the open PubMed Central library of the National Library of Medicine.[66][67] In general, the Internet tends to provide more current coverage than print media, due to the ease with which material on the Internet can be updated.[68] In rapidly changing fields such as science, technology, politics, culture and modern history, the Britannica has struggled to stay up-to-date, a problem first analysed systematically by its former editor Walter Yust.[69] Eventually, the Britannica turned to focus more on its online edition.