Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review'This collective effort produces extremely useful detail , marking the changing content of successive editions and thus giving clues to what was seen as novel or in need of revision. […] with its painstaking detail and awareness of the Scottish Enlightenment context,
The Early Britannica: The growth of an outstanding Encyclopedia provides a valuable basis for future comparative work on the European encyclopedic project.'
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Isis'The contributors have conducted an extraordinarily thorough investigation of the
Encyclopaedia britannica. [...] They have unearthed valuable information about the editors and contributors to the first three editions and present compelling evidence about the range and treatment of their sources. This volume could greatly contribute to our understanding of the state of knowledge at the end of the eighteenth century.'
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Judith Hawley, Royal Holloway, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction, Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland
William Smellie’s edition (1768-1771): a modest start, Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland
James Tytler’s edition (1777-1784): a vast expansion and improvement, Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker, Jeff Loveland and Dennis A. Trinkle
Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig and possibly James Tytler’s edition (1788-1797): the attainment of recognition and eminence, Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker, William E. Morris
et alGeorge Gleig’s
Supplement to the third edition (1801-1803): learned and combative, Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland
Epilogue: the tortoise and the hare: the longevity of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica and the
Encyclopédie compared, Frank A. Kafker
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