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Description: USB ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA EDITIONS 1-11(1771-1911) All of the following editions and corresponding supplements are included on the USB in a .PDF format for quick viewing. Ready to be dispatched immediately: The Encyclopedia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771) is a 3-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopedia 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 3 years. Most of the articles were written by Williiam Smellie and edited by Macfarquhar, who printed the pages. All copperplate's were created by Bell. The Encyclopedia Britannica Second Edition (1777–1784) is a 10-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopedia 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 7 years. Most of the medical and scientific articles, as well as the minor articles, were written by James Tytler. All copperplate's were created by Bell.The Enclopedia Britannica Third Edition (1797) is an 18-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopedia's earliest period as a two-man operation initiated by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Most of the editing was done by Macfarquhar, and all the copperplates were created by Bell.The Enclopedia Britannica Fourth Edition was begun in 1800 and completed in 1810, comprising 20 volumes with 16,033 pages and 581 plates engraved by Andrew Bell. As with the 3rd edition, in which title pages were not printed until the set was complete, and all volumes were given title pages dated 1797, title pages for the 4th edition were sent to bookbinders in 1810, dated that year for all volumes. The editor was Dr. James Millar, a physician, who was good at scientific topics but criticised for being "slow & dilatory & not well qualified". The mathematical articles of Prof. Wallace were widely praised in the 4th edition. Overall, the 4th edition was a mild expansion of the 3rd, from 18 to 20 volumes, and was updated in its historical, scientific, and biographical articles.The Enclopedia Britannica Fifth Edition, on which work started immediately after the fourth was finished in 1810, was completed in 20 volumes, dated 1815, and sold at a price of £36. After the first five volumes, which were supervised by Bonar, it was again edited by Millar and was brought out by Constable. On Bonar’s death in 1814, Constable bought his share in the third edition from his heirs for £4,500. Realizing the inadequacy of simply reprinting the fourth edition, Constable at once began planning supplementary volumes, which started to appear at the end of 1815, the year that the fifth edition was completed. Before the supplementary volumes were themselves completed in 1824, however, a sixth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica had been published.The Enclopedia Britannica Sixth Edition, numbering some 16,017 pages, appeared between 1820 and 1823, edited by Charles Maclaren, the first editor of The Scotsman. By 1820 the fifth edition was noticeably out of date (e.g., the last event of the historical list given in “Chronology” is dated 1804), yet an extensively revised or new edition was out of the question when the Supplement was still in progress. Constable adopted a compromise solution: the fifth edition was essentially reprinted, with the same pagination almost entirely and in the same number of volumes, but some articles were brought up to date, chiefly by inserting the 1811 statistics in many British town and county articles and by deleting passages in country and major city articles to make room for their history and topography since the beginning of the century. Some revisions were also made in a few scientific articles.The Enclopedia Britannica Seventh Edition After Constable’s bankruptcy and death, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was bought by Adam Black, another Edinburgh publisher, for whom Napier edited the seventh edition. Its 21 volumes, comprising 17,011 pages and 506 plates, appeared in parts from 1830 to 1842 and were a revision of previous editions, incorporating the Supplement and a number of newly commissioned articles. An extra volume provided the useful innovation of a general index, which became a standard feature of all further editions.The Enclopedia Britannica Eighth Edition, which appeared from 1852 to 1860, numbered 21 volumes, with an extra index volume of some 230 pages, and contained 17,957 pages and 402 plates. Napier had died, and the new editor was T.S. Traill (1781–1862), professor of medical jurisprudence at Edinburgh University. He was assisted by nine “regular staff of the Encyclopedia,” mentioned in the preface.The Enclopedia Britannica Ninth Edition, the 24 volumes and index volume of the ninth edition appeared one by one between 1875 and 1889. At the end of the index volume was a list of contributors, together with the abbreviations used for their names as signatures to their articles. In addition, at the beginning of each volume there was a list of the chief articles it contained, together with their authors. The dissertations were dropped entirely. After the first four volumes the plates were almost all maps in colour, the other illustrations being text cuts.The Enclopedia Britannica Tenth Edition, (1902–03) was made by the addition of an 11-volume supplement to the ninth, numbering the supplementary volumes where the ninth left off, from 25 to 35. The 34th volume was an atlas of more than 120 maps with a gazetteer, and the 35th volume contained a combined index to the 34 volumes, a combined list of contributors, and a key to the abbreviated symbols used as signatures to the articles in which for the first time “X.,” signifying anonymity, appears. Bearing the imprint of Adam and Charles Black and The Times, the title page began: “The new volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, constituting in combination with the existing volumes of the ninth edition the tenth edition of that work, and also supplying a new, distinctive, and independent library of reference dealing with recent events and developments….” The next page listed three editors, Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Arthur T. Hadley, and Hugh Chisholm, 19 departmental editors (including Richard Garnett for biography and Edmund W. Gosse for literature), four associate editors, and two copy editors. One of the associate editors was Franklin H. Hooper, Horace Hooper’s brother, who from his office in New York controlled editorial work in the United States. The British editorial department had moved from Edinburgh to London. The preface pointed out that “these supplementary volumes are the product of the New World as well as of the Old.” The Enclopedia Britannica Tenth Edition, brought a change in both plan and method of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Previous editions had consistently planned to provide comprehensive treatises on major subjects as well as detailed information on particulars and had inevitably lacked coherence because of the method of printing, whereby they appeared in parts over a considerable period of time. (An exception was the 10th edition, which lacked coherence for another reason: it was partly a supplement.)

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