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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Boyles, Denis, author.     Subjects     Encyclopaedia Britannica -- History.     Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Boyles, Denis, author.       by title:      Everything explained...         MARC Display

Everything explained that is explainable : on the creation of the Encyclopedia Britannica's celebrated eleventh edition, 1910-1911 / Denis Boyles. by Boyles, Denis, author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Subjects Encyclopaedia Britannica -- History.   Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism. ISBN:  9780307269171 (hardback) : 0307269175 (hardback) Description:  xviii, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Plymouth 1896 -- The adman -- Printing house square -- The Cairo correspondent -- The assistant manager -- The American scheme -- Ten -- A dinner for Mr. Chisholm -- The supplemental volumes -- Half a million goats -- Anglosphere -- Plan B: a book war -- Chaos -- High Holborn -- The single organism -- War and peace -- The dreadnaught launch -- Offenses -- Postscript. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The audacious, improbable tale of 20th century American hucksterism, outlandish daring, and vision that resurrected a dying Encyclopedia Britannica in collaboration with a floundering London Times, its astonishing success that changed publishing and that produced the Britannica's eleventh edition (published between 1910 and 1911), the most revered edition of English-language encyclopedias (all 44 million words), considered by many to be "the last great work of the age of reason" (Hans Koening, the New Yorker)"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 031 Bo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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