OT: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition
Nathaniel Taylor
list of 'full-books' pdfs of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed. I
come up several volumes short but the search engine is notoriously
sketchy for volumes of a multi-volume work. I did see a couple of these
missing volumes available in snippet view, though (aargh).
This sort of refeerence table doesn't seem to be handy on Wikisource or
anywhere else. Here is what I have so far, below. Can anyone come up
with full-book hits for the remaining volumes?
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition:
Vol 1 A to ANDROPHAGI
http://books.google.com/books?id=QhPpsUqUkZoC
Vol 2 ANDROS to AUSTRIA
http://books.google.com/books?id=Yjd5EQGM9zUC
Vol 3 AUSTRIA LOWER to BISECTRIX
http://books.google.com/books?id=AvanjGny7mcC
Vol 4 BISHARIN to CALGARY
http://books.google.com/books?id=KHrJ00s_qs4C
Vol 5 CALHOUN to CHATELAINE
http://books.google.com/books?id=bgz5N0CeRiAC
Vol 6 CHĀTELET to CONSTANTINE
http://books.google.com/books?id=VBIRzxLzFLwC
Vol 7 CONSTANTINE PAVLOVICH to DEMIDOV
Vol 8 DEMIJOHN to EDWARD
Vol 9 EDWARDES to EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION
http://books.google.com/books?id=0qZzgJ-B4JwC
Vol 10 EVANGELICAL CHURCH to FRANCIS JOSEPH
http://books.google.com/books?id=jhZsJc4z5RkC
Vol 11 FRANSISCANS to GIBSON
http://books.google.com/books?id=kPstAAAAIAAJ
Vol 12 GICHTEL to HARMONIUM
http://books.google.com/books?id=DgTALFa3sa4C
Vol 13 HARMONY to HURSTMONCEAUX
http://books.google.com/books?id=2SN6-c9_l7QC
Vol 14 HUSBAND to ITALIC
http://books.google.com/books?id=S45w-F57LHcC
Vol 15 ITALY to KYSHTYM
http://books.google.com/books?id=HlQEAAAAYAAJ
Vol 16 L to LORD ADVOCATE
http://books.google.com/books?id=OvYtAAAAIAAJ
Vol 17 LORD CHAMBERLAIN to MECKLENBURG
Vol 18 MEDAL to MUMPS
http://books.google.com/books?id=XbX3VOh5ziYC
Vol 19 MUN to ODDFELLOWS
http://books.google.com/books?id=PSGqT_wYSrsC
Vol 20 ODE to PAYMENT OF MEMBERS
http://books.google.com/books?id=-HGhBxRQf3sC
Vol 21 PAYN to POLKA
http://books.google.com/books?id=RGyYpMQYow4C
Vol 22 POLL to REEVES
Vol 23 REFECTORY to SAINTE-BEUVE
http://books.google.com/books?id=vbozEF-xrLsC
Vol 24 SAINTE-CLAIRE DEVILLE to SHUTTLE
http://books.google.com/books?id=U4AoYvJG7LAC
Vol 25 SHUVĀLOV to SUBLIMINAL SELF
Vol 26 SUBMARINE MINES to TOM-TOM
Vol 27 TONALITE to VESUSIUS
http://books.google.com/books?id=5vgGE8_CGOEC
Vol 28 VETCH to ZYMOTIC DISEASES
http://books.google.com/books?id=vf8tAAAAIAAJ
Vol 29 INDEX
Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net
D. Spencer Hines
DSH
"Nathaniel Taylor" <nlta...@nltaylor.net> wrote in message
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Peter Stewart
"D. Spencer Hines" <pan...@excelsior.com> wrote in message
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> How many more volumes are there?
>
> DSH
>
> "Nathaniel Taylor" <nlta...@nltaylor.net> wrote in message
> news:nltaylor-C154E6...@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net...
<snip>
>> Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition:
>>
>> Vol 1 A to ANDROPHAGI
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=QhPpsUqUkZoC
<snip>
>> Vol 28 VETCH to ZYMOTIC DISEASES
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=vf8tAAAAIAAJ
>> Vol 29 INDEX
Take note, Leo - there IS indeed such a thing as a stupid question.
All it takes is a stupid questioner.
Peter Stewart
Renia
Thought the same myself but people seem fed up with me replying to this
particular poster even when I'm pointing out his increasing reading
comprehension problems.
D. Spencer Hines
Yes, I wasn't sure -- but wondered if there were more volumes than the 29
Nat had called out.
Peter Stewart just took another opportunity to make a public, vindictive
fool of himself -- followed quickly by Renia Simmonds.
Par for the course...
The 12th Edition allegedly has 32 volumes.
So I gather all volumes of the 11th Edition are available here?
>>All those you are missing are available on Internet Archive
>>http://www.archive.org/index.php search for Encyclopaedia Britannica (you
>>may have to choose texts first).
Great! If true.
I realize the 11th Edition of the Britannica is supposed to be a gem -- but
why so, exactly?
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
"E. S. Caypatch" <egr...@outlet.au> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:25:21 +1100, Ken Ozanne
> <keno...@bordernet.com.au> wrote:
>
>>Nat,
>>All those you are missing are available on Internet Archive
>>http://www.archive.org/index.php search for Encyclopaedia Britannica (you
>>may have to choose texts first).
>>
>> There are also volumes 30, 31 and a range of yearbooks going up into
>> the 50s.
>
> These are obviously the volumes that DSH was thinking of when he
> wrote:
>
>> How many more volumes are there?
>
> And certain uncharitable people thought it was a stupid question.
>
> Ed
pj.evans
> Thank you...
>
> Yes, I wasn't sure -- but wondered if there were more volumes than the 29
> Nat had called out.
>
> Peter Stewart just took another opportunity to make a public, vindictive
> fool of himself -- followed quickly by Renia Simmonds.
>
> Par for the course...
>
> The 12th Edition allegedly has 32 volumes.
>
> So I gather all volumes of the 11th Edition are available here?
>
> >>All those you are missing are available on Internet Archive
> >>may have to choose texts first).
>
> Great! If true.
>
> I realize the 11th Edition of the Britannica is supposed to be a gem -- but
> why so, exactly?
>
> DSH
>
> Lux et Veritas et Libertas
>
>
>
>
> > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:25:21 +1100, Ken Ozanne
> > <kenoza...@bordernet.com.au> wrote:
>
> >>Nat,
> >>All those you are missing are available on Internet Archive
> >>may have to choose texts first).
>
> >> There are also volumes 30, 31 and a range of yearbooks going up into
> >> the 50s.
>
> > These are obviously the volumes that DSH was thinking of when he
> > wrote:
>
> >> How many more volumes are there?
>
> > And certain uncharitable people thought it was a stupid question.
>
>
> - Show quoted text -
Try this page:
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/LoveToKnow_1911:Explanation
They're putting it online.
E. S. Caypatch
hoist with his own petar:
>Thank you...
>
>Yes, I wasn't sure -- but wondered if there were more volumes than the 29
>Nat had called out.
>
>Peter Stewart just took another opportunity to make a public, vindictive
>fool of himself -- followed quickly by Renia Simmonds.
I thought you might be grateful for the Escape Hatch I offered you.
E. S. Caypatch
D. Spencer Hines
Just the rather boring, mundane truth of the matter.
DSH
"E. S. Caypatch" <egr...@outlet.au> wrote in message
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D. Spencer Hines
Much better than just a bare link, but it takes more work on the part of the
poster:
"It must be the last encyclopedia in the tradition of Diderot which assumes
that information can be made memorable only when it is slightly colored by
prejudice."
And colored by intelligence as well.
The 11th Edition seems to have first appeared in 1910, not 1911.
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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The Eleventh Edition filled 29 volumes [sic] and contains over 44 million
words. It contains over 40,000 articles written by over 1,500 authors
within their various fields of expertise. What was particularly remarkable
was that many of the entries were written by the most famous people of the
age. As such, it was considered to represent the sum of human knowledge at
the beginning of the 20th Century.
[Indeed. Edwardian, in the best sense of the word. -- DSH]
Sir Kenneth Clark, in _Another Part of the Wood_, wrote of the Eleventh
Edition:
"One leaps from one subject to another, fascinated as much by the play of
mind and idiosyncrasies of their authors as by the facts and dates. It must
be the last encyclopedia in the tradition of Diderot which assumes that
information can be made memorable only when it is slightly colored by
prejudice. When T.S. Eliot wrote 'Soul curled up on the window seat reading
the Encyclopedia' he was certainly thinking of the eleventh edition."
<http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/LoveToKnow_1911:Explanation>
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DSH
D. Spencer Hines
Pogue Leo The Salami-Slicer & Hairsplitter...
This from the same Leo who says "There are no stupid questions."
Pogue Leo, with no legal training at all, and not all that bright either,
does not know that one should often -- indeed almost always, say lawyers in
Court -- ask only questions to which one already knows the answers -- or has
corralled and triangulated them.
Further, we still have many pogues and poguettes here who think the 11th
Edition of the Britannica first appeared in 1911.
Victoria, it just doesn't get any better than this.
Enjoy!
So, are there 31 volumes in the 11th Edition -- or only 29?
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
"Leo van de Pas" <leov...@netspeed.com.au> wrote in message
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> In my opinion the question _was_ phrased in a _stupid manner_.
D. Spencer Hines
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"It must be the last encyclopedia in the tradition of Diderot which assumes
that information can be made memorable only when it is slightly colored by
prejudice."
Sir Kenneth Clark, in _Another Part of the Wood_, wrote of the Eleventh
Edition
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Yes, much better than Pogue Gans, infra.
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
"Paul J Gans" <ga...@panix.com> wrote in message
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>
> No, I don't think value judgements are appropriate in history
> itself. The historian's job is to report on what happened, as
> best as he can figure. As soon as you start to decide good and
> evil, you bias your viewpoint.
D. Spencer Hines
because she knows that many OTHER people DON'T know the answer.
Once again, Leo van de Pas bares his ignorance and total lack of any Legal
or Rhetorical Education.
Jack Linthicum
Then why do you ask questions in your borrowed posts?
Peter Stewart
> Thank you...
>
> Yes, I wasn't sure -- but wondered if there were more volumes than the 29
> Nat had called out.
>
> Peter Stewart just took another opportunity to make a public, vindictive
> fool of himself -- followed quickly by Renia Simmonds.
>
> Par for the course...
>
> The 12th Edition allegedly has 32 volumes.
Then perhaps you can explain why the British Library catalogue states that
the full set has 29 volumes?
Peter Stewart
D. Spencer Hines
DSH
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Hilarious!
Pogue Leo NOW confuses questions to which a person knows the answers with
LEADING questions.
A Grave Mistake...
Again, we see that Pogue Leo has no Legal or Rhetorical Education.
Peter Stewart
> So noted...
>
> Much better than just a bare link, but it takes more work on the part of
> the
> poster:
>
> "It must be the last encyclopedia in the tradition of Diderot which
> assumes
> that information can be made memorable only when it is slightly colored by
> prejudice."
>
> And colored by intelligence as well.
>
> The 11th Edition seems to have first appeared in 1910, not 1911.
It is known as the 1911 edition precisely because that is when the integral
set was COMPLETED by the index, volume 29.
Supplementary material published later cannot be counted as part of the 1911
EB, as the British Library catalogue shows.
An "escape hatch" is not open to loud and stupid misuse, it is for crawling
through surreptitiously.
Peter Stewart
Barbarossa
> I realize the 11th Edition of the Britannica is supposed to be
> a gem -- but why so, exactly?
As I understand it, the 11th was the last edition wherein the
authors of the articles (most of them famous and well known
experts in their fields) did not have their submissions edited
down by the publishers.
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Wayne B. Hewitt Encinitas, CA whe...@ucsd.edu
D. Spencer Hines
Interesting, if true.
No editing at all?
Tough to prove I'll bet.
But longer, meatier, "biased" [ translate: delightful to read] articles were
the result.
Yes:
Beware The Terrible Simplifier -- With Scissors.
How did you come by your set of the 11th Edition?
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
"Barbarossa" <whe...@ucsd.edu> wrote in message
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D. Spencer Hines
DSH
"Dave" <dav...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I noticed today Oxfam Book Shop, Bedford [England] "Encyclopaedia
> Britannica - 11th Edition - Much sought after and complete". £99
> pounds.
>
> Oxfam Bookshop
> 16 St. Pauls Square
> BEDFORD Bedfordshire MK40 1SL
> tel: 01234 213768
>
> It occupied a few shelves, if I has read this thread earlier I could
> have least stood there and counted the Volumes.
Barbarossa
> >> I realize the 11th Edition of the Britannica is supposed to be
> >> a gem -- but why so, exactly?
Barbarossa:
> > As I understand it, the 11th was the last edition wherein the
> > authors of the articles (most of them famous and well known
> > experts in their fields) did not have their submissions edited
> > down by the publishers.
"D. Spencer Hines" wrote:
> Aha!
>
> Interesting, if true.
>
> No editing at all?
>
> Tough to prove I'll bet.
>
> But longer, meatier, "biased" [translate: delightful to read]
> articles were the result.
Barbarossa:
I suspect that experts and authorities were asked to submit
articles (possibly within certain length requirements) that were
then subject only to the normal proof-reading. Others may have to
speak to whether articles were ever rejected or returned for
re-writes.
I did know a PhD at work (retired, many years ago) who did
indeed submit an article to the EB (a later edition, of course)
on squash and gourds.
"D. Spencer Hines" wrote:
> How did you come by your set of the 11th Edition?
Barbarossa:
About thirty five years ago I was discussing the 11th with a
colleague at work and decided to look for a set. I did manage to
find a complete Twelfth in good condition in a used book store in
downtown San Diego. It is the "small" edition - about 6 X 9
inches and tiny print - that came out of the Lincoln County
library in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
Singanas@Texasgulfcoast
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In what year did the EB 11th Edition appear? My EB is in another
city and I believe the publication year is 1990 or '91.
I paid $35 for it (Macropedia plus Micropedia) about 4 years ago as
a (Houston) Friends of the Library volunteer worker.
Cheers, David H
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Andrew Chaplin
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1907, IIRC.
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)
Renia
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In what year did the EB 11th Edition appear? My EB is in another
> city and I believe the publication year is 1990 or '91.
> I paid $35 for it (Macropedia plus Micropedia) about 4 years ago as
> a (Houston) Friends of the Library volunteer worker.
>
> Cheers, David H
It was published between 1910-1911, as I said upthread.
Renia
1910-1911.
Paul J Gans
>1907, IIRC.
My edition says 1910. However, it was put out in several
different bindings and sizings, likely not all at the same
time. Indeed, my "Handy Volume" issue has a prefatory note
by James Bryce (Viscount Bryce) noting the start of World War
I in 1914. This edition was published in New York and is the
very small type edition -- though it still runs to 14 volumes,
each a "double volume" with about 1700-2000 pages to each double.
This particular edition has been in my family since the 1920's
when my father bought it for my mother.
One reason for the importance of the 11th is that it provides
encyclopedic (seriously) coverage of essentially all British
18th and 19th century literary figures. Indeed, the full title
is:
The
Encyclopaedia Britannica
A
Dictionary
of
Arts, Sciences, Literature, and General
Information
Eleventh Edition
--
--- Paul J. Gans
Paul J Gans
>1910-1911.
I fully agree, as I've just posted.
Spacy Bickerson
"Renia" <re...@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote in message
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> >
> > 1907, IIRC.
>
> 1910-1911.
My favorite edition was the 1905 handy edition. About 6 x 9 ran to over
twenty volumes including atlas - alas I no longer have access to it so use
the 1911 edition on-line.
BTW it is possible to edit the pages that have mistakes, though not directly
as in Wikipedia and the site has been revised from its original format - now
much better go to http://www.1911encyclopedia.org