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this was mostly a reprint of the 1931 edition, with the 12 volumes of text and an atlas making up the 13th volume. Some color illustration plates were added to each volume and a maple leaf was added to the binding. Despite these cosmetic changes the set was sold in Canada for twice what it was in the
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A fifth edition was published in May 1967. Some of the basic format was similar, with 12 volumes and 8 million words, the text was extensively revised, more illustrations were added and the typeface increased one third in size. In the United States this was published as the
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The 1978 sixth edition was not sold in the United States because of copyright issues with the illustrations. Specifically the cost of gaining rights to pictures was too high compared to the company's probably return on investment. It was however, distributed in Canada by
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illustrations, 600 maps and a 64-page color atlas in the final volume. Articles were of the specific entry type, averaging 200 words or a fifth of a page, and were all unsigned. 400 contributors and editors were "noted", however. There were 15,000
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The third edition was published in 1950, again under Ridgways direction, and published in London by Dent, but now in New York by
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Phoenix, AZ; Orynx Press, Second Edition, 1994 p. 278 Kister's source is a letter dated Feb. 8, 1984 from
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A second edition was published in 1931–32. The title was slightly different, changing from
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Obituary: "James Hall: He wrote the definitive work on subjects and symbols in art"
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was still available on Dialog, but only as the unrevised 1978 sixth edition.
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Anglo-American general encyclopedias: a historical bibliography, 1703-1967
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US. This apparently tarnished the encyclopedia's reputation somewhat.
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1967–1968, reprint 1972: ed. Ernest Franklin Bozman, twelve volumes
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of the 1830s. Originally published in 1913–14 by J.M. Dent in
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Index


Joseph Dent
Everyman's Library
English Cyclopaedia
Penny Cyclopaedia
London
E. P. Dutton
New York
Andrew Boyle
Athelstan Ridgway
Macmillan Publishers
Ernest Franklin Bozman
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
black and white
cross-references
index
Dialog Information Services
Palo Alto, California
Andrew Boyle
E.P. Dutton & co.
OCLC
4863695
The Everyman Encyclopaedia
archive.org
Athelstan Ridgway
Eric John Holmyard
OCLC
29825201
OCLC
67542127

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