1897 Encyclopaedia Britannica 9th Edition American Supplement Werner 30 Volumes

Description: **Please note: If you are an international customer (outside of U.S.), please message us to discuss shipping, since this is a very heavy set. The Encyclopædia Britannica. Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. New Maps and Many Original American Articles by Eminent Authors. In Thirty Volumes. With New American Supplement. Edited Under the Personal Supervision of Day Otis Kellogg, D.D., Formerly Professor of English Literature and History, Kansas State University, Etc., Etc. Assisted by a Corps of Experienced Writers. Fully Illustrated, with Over Ten Thousand Portraits, Plates, and Engravings. Original Ninth Edition, In Twenty-Five Volumes Edited by Profs. Spencer Baynes, LL.D., and W. Robertson Smith, LL.D., Assisted by Over One Thousand Contributors. R.S. Pearle & Co., New York: The Werner Company, Chicago. 1897. Complete set in 30 Volumes. Uniform navy cloth binding measuring 10.5 x 8.25", large 8vos. In fair condition. All cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. All edges of all volumes are uniformly marbled (top edges slightly dulled). Heads and tails of spines bumped; some heads exhibit small tears, but are overall intact. Cloth covered fore-edge of Vol. I's front board is chipped with exposed binding. Gilt lettering and ruling overall bright and clean, with some rubbing at heads and tails of spines. Most bindings are overall tight and intact, but some exhibit split gutters, i.e., Vol. I's front gutter is split with exposed binding mesh & cording. Vol. XXX's bindings is moderately shaken, with pages 1 - 416 attached to binding via cording only. Light toning throughout text-blocks; mostly at edges of leaves with some instances of finger-soiling or light age-staining. Light scuffing or staining to front board of Vol. XXIX & spine of Vol. XVII. All bindings are intact, but some exhibit split gutters. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. The 9th and 11th editions are often lauded as high points for scholarship; the ninth included yet another series of illustrious contributors such as Thomas Henry Huxley (article on "Evolution"), Lord Rayleigh (articles on "Optics, Geometrical" and "Wave Theory of Light"), Algernon Charles Swinburne (article on "John Keats"), William Michael Rossetti, Amelia Edwards (article on "Mummy"), Prince Kropotkin (articles on "Moscow", "Odessa" and "Siberia"), James George Frazer (articles on "Taboo" and "Totemism"), Andrew Lang (article on "Apparitions"), Lord Macaulay, James Clerk Maxwell (articles on "Atom" and "Ether"), Lord Kelvin (articles on "Elasticity" and "Heat") and William Morris (article on "Mural Decoration"). Robert Louis Stevenson, then 25, contributed an article about Robert Burns that, being unenthusiastic, was never printed. There were roughly 1100 contributors altogether,[ a handful of whom were women; this edition was also the first to include a significant article about women ("Women, Law Relating to"). Evolution was listed for the first time, in the wake of Charles Darwin's writings, but the subject was treated as if still controversial, and a complete working of the subject would have to wait for the 11th edition. The eighth edition has no listing for the subject at all. The ninth edition was a critical success, and roughly 8,500 sets were sold in Britain. A & C Black authorized the American firms of Charles Scribner's Sons of New York, Little, Brown and Company of Boston, and Samuel L. Hall of New York, to print, bind and distribute additional sets in the United States, and provided them with stereotype plates for text and graphics, specifications on the color and tanning quality of the leather bindings, etc., so the American-produced sets would be identical to the Edinburgh sets except for the title pages, and that they would be of the same high quality as the Edinburgh sets. Famous infringers of that era include the Philadelphian Joseph M. Stoddart, who employed a spy in the Britannica's own printshop, Neill and Company, in Edinburgh. The spy would steal the proofreader's copies and send them by fastest mail to the United States, allowing Stoddart to publish his version simultaneously with the Britannica and at nearly half the price ($5 versus $9 per volume). Another successful infringer was Henry G. Allen, who developed a photographic reproduction method for the Britannica and charged only half as much as Stoddart ($2.50 per volume). Richard S. Pearle & Co. of Chicago photoengraved some sets in 1891, and added three volumes of "American Revisions and additions," the first two in 1891 and the third in 1892. In 1893, they published sets with volumes 1–24 from the original Britannica, the three "American" volumes 25–27, and the index as Vol. 28. Some copies of this version say they were printed by Werner, also of Chicago, and from 1902 to 1907 Werner printed the commonly found "New Werner Edition," of 30 volumes (24 volumes plus five New American Supplement volumes and a new index for all 29 volumes). Volumes I-XXVIII are 1893 R.S. Pearle & Co., Volumes XXIX & XXX are Werner Company. The Only Complete Set we can find for sale! Referred to as "New Werner Edition". FORN-SHELF-0656-BB-2407-HK1931

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