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1. CHAMBERS DICTIONARY ENGLISH LITERATURE SERIAL
2. CHAMBERS DICTIONARY ENGLISH LITERATURE PLUS
3. CHAMBERS DICTIONARY ENGLISH LITERATURE SERIES

Later editions Īn entirely new edition was published 1888–1892 in ten volumes edited by David Patrick. As in Brockhaus, however, the scope of the work did not allow extended treatment. The articles were generally considered excellent, especially on Jewish literature, folk-lore, and practical science. The index of matters not having special articles contained about 1,500 headings. Volume 10 included a supplement of 409 pages at the back for new and revised content. ``A Catalogue of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 1868.' Bibliotheck: A Scottish Journal of Bibliography and Book History. Over 250 authors were traced by Professor Cooney in 1999 (Cooney, Sondra Miley. The work appeared between 18 in 520 weekly parts at three-halfpence each and totalled ten octavo volumes, with 8,320 pages, and over 27,000 articles from over 100 authors. Andrew Findlater was the acting editor and spent ten years on the project.

The publishers found it necessary, however, to supplement the core text with a significant amount of additional material, including more than 4000 illustrations not present in Brockhaus. The first edition, entitled Chambers's Encyclopaedia A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, was partly based on a translation into English of the 10th edition of the German-language Konversations-Lexikon, which would become the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie. Further American editions were published up to 1867. The 1848 edition is stated to be the first American edition, while the 1856 ed.

CHAMBERS DICTIONARY ENGLISH LITERATURE SERIES

Ĭongruently with this a second series of editions were published in Philadelphia by a succession of publishers including J. Further new, two volume editions were published in 18, both of which are denominated the Fifth edition. A third improved edition appeared in 1857., shortly before the Chambers Brothers publication of the first edition of their major encyclopedia in 1860.

CHAMBERS DICTIONARY ENGLISH LITERATURE PLUS

The original edition consisted of 48 numbered "treatises", plus an unnumbered introductory treatise "An Account of the Earth, Physical and Political." Improved two volume editions were published in 18. The undertaking was a success, selling seventy thousand issues in its first year. It also eschewed the bulky format that and "found it necessary to disregard all common idea as to what constitutes dignity in the externals of books". Hence, it focused only on subjects that would be of interest to the common man and pertinent to his self education. Like the Penny Cyclopaedia, and others of the time it was meant to be a cheap reference work that was targeted at the middle and working classes.

CHAMBERS DICTIONARY ENGLISH LITERATURE SERIAL

This began as a serial publication in 1835.