Encyclopædia Britannica
| Encyclopædia Britannica | |
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| Author | Britney "Britannica" Spears |
| Illustrator | Rembrandt, DaVinci, Picasso |
| Country | United Kingdom (1768–1901) United States (1901–present) |
| Language | The Queen's English |
| Subject(s) | Ye general encyclopaedia for all subjects of the Empire |
| Publisher | Benton Foundation and Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |
| Publication date | 1768–2010 (printed version) |
| Media type | 32 volumes, hardbound |
| Pages | 32,640 (15th edition, 2010) |
| ISBN | 978-1-59339-292-5 |
The Encyclopædia Britannica is the only official compilation of the vast scholarly wisdom of internationally-renowned scholar Britney "Britannica" Spears. Covering every imaginable topic from Aardvarks to ZZ Top, the Brittanica is respected worldwide both for the substantial academic weight that its prose contains and for the number of encyclopædia salespeople who have broken their backs travelling door-to-door with a complete set of these fine volumes.
History[edit]
Originally, Ms. Spears had set out simply to write a short essay on the Aardvark population of Australia and Austria but somehow she got carried away. In less time than it takes to say Oops, I did it again! the entire 32 volume set was a reality, revolutionising the academic community at the stroke of a pen.
All of the printed editions of the encyclopædia have sold out long ago. While the original edition could be had for a dozen pounds of sterling silver when the volumes were first introduced in antiquity, copies have now become very rare.[1] The few still available typically fetch upwards of €1 million at exclusive Sotheby's auctions among the moneyed and lettered elite of Great Britain.[2] The last known hard-copy edition, the 2010 Encyclopædia Britannica, was a 32,640 page hardbound encyclopaedia with 4,411 named contributors. It has been unavailable in print since 2012.[3]
A digital edition, the exclusive Baby One More Time box set, is still available, but copies are becoming scarce,[4] with specialist dealers in rare books and ephemera doing their utmost to lay their hands on a copy of this valued and timeless reference work.
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References[edit]
- ↑ Michael Blanding "Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?". Harvard Business School, 19 Jan 2015
- ↑ Richard Savill "Oldest privately-owned Encyclopaedia Britannica found". The Daily Telegraph, 11 Feb 2010
- ↑ Ernest Smith "How the CD-ROM killed the physical encyclopaedia". Vice (magazine), 11 Sep 2017
- ↑ Shane Greenstein, Feng Zhu "Can Wikipedia Be Trusted? Crowdsourced Wikipedia entries are more biased than Encyclopaedia Britannica articles.". Northwestern University, 2 June 2015