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The Vintage Software Collection. For this printing, pages were revised. The price quoted is for Classic Brown binding. It was written by about full-time editors and more than 4, contributors.
The version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes and 32, pages, was the last printed edition. The Britannica is the English-language encyclopaedia that was in print for the longest time: it lasted years.
It was first published between and in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, in three volumes. This first edition is available in facsimile. The encyclopaedia grew in size: the second edition was 10 volumes, and by its fourth edition — it had expanded to 20 volumes.
Its rising stature as a scholarly work helped recruit eminent contributors, and the 9th — and 11th editions are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary style.
Starting with the 11th edition and following its acquisition by an American firm, Britannica shortened and simplified articles to broaden its appeal to the North American market. 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 , the Britannica has for the most part maintained British English spelling. Bell was born in Edinburgh in , his father a baker. He had little formal education and was apprenticed to the engraver Richard Cooper. Bell was a colourful Scot. His height was 4-foot 6; he had crooked legs and an enormous nose that he would sometimes augment with a paper-mache version whenever anyone stared at his natural nose. Bell began work as an engraver of crests, names, etc.
He married Anne Wake who was the daughter of an excise officer in
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