Everything explained that is explainable
Subtitle: on the creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's celebrated eleventh edition, 1910-1911
By: Denis Boyles
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780307269171; 9780307389787
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries; History and criticism; Encyclopaedia Britannica; History
Description: "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)"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plymouth 1896; title: The adman; title: Printing house square; title: The Cairo correspondent; title: The assistant manager; title: The American scheme; title: Ten; title: A dinner for Mr. Chisholm; title: The supplemental volumes; title: Half a million goats; title: Anglosphere; title: Plan B: a book war; title: Chaos; title: High Holborn; title: The single organism; title: War and peace; title: The dreadnaught launch; title: Offenses; title: Postscript.