1991 Encyclopaedia Britannica Micropaedia Complete 32 Book Set, Black Edition, Gold Top

Encyclopaedia Britannica Micropaedia 1991 Complete 32 Book Set - Black Edition, Gold Top

This set includes the following:

READY REFERENCE - Volume 1 to 12

KNOWLEDGE IN DEPTH Volume 13 to 29

INDEX A to Z

Propaedia - Guide to the Britannica

All books are in very good condition!!!

The Fifteenth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica represents a revolution in encyclopaedia making. It began with the organization of the Board of Editors in 1947.

The Board's task was to engage in long-range plan-ning. This necessarily involved criticism, favourable and unfavourable, of Britannica as it then was. That en-cyclopaedia was based on the Fourteenth Edition, published in 1929. Annual printings were kept up-to-date by changes that took into account the most important new developments.

Britannica could claim at that time to be the best en-cyclopaedia in English; but the process of annual revision was necessarily partial. Articles were eliminated and new ones substituted. Alterations were made in other articles. But the encyclopaedia as a whole could not be reexamined. Single articles were changed, but other articles connected in some way with them, which might run into hundreds, often could not be. The relations among the articles became in some fields more and more tenuous. Hence the possibility of understanding those fields through planned reading in Britannica became more and more remote.

The program of annual revision led to a compilation of accurate articles. In the nature of the case it could not lead to an encyclopaedia edited in accordance with a plan. The excellence of Britannica, which was undis-puted, rested on the authority of the scholars who wrote the articles. As 1929 receded, it became more and more difficult to discern the plan on which the encyclopaedia was based.

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