Research Catalog
Everything explained that is explainable : on the creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's celebrated eleventh edition, 1910-1911
- Title
- Everything explained that is explainable : on the creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's celebrated eleventh edition, 1910-1911 / Denis Boyles.
- Author
- Boyles, Denis
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- ©2016
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-10123 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 442 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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)"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-10123
- ISBN
- 9780307269171
- 0307269175
- 9780307389787 (trade paperback)
- 0307389782 (trade paperback)
- LCCN
- 2015029960
- OCLC
- 927166013
- 927166013
- Author
- Boyles, Denis, author.
- Title
- Everything explained that is explainable : on the creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's celebrated eleventh edition, 1910-1911 / Denis Boyles.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-10123