TY - SER
AU - Denis Boyles
CY - New York, NY
LA - English
N1 -
Focuses on efforts of American entrepreneur Horace Everett Hooper to revive the Encyclopedia.
Contents:
- Plymouth 1896
- The adman
- Printing house square
- The Cairo correspondent
- The assistant manager
- The American scheme
- Ten
- A dinner for Mr. Chisholm
- The supplemental volumes
- Half a million goats
- Anglosphere
- Plan B: a book war
- Chaos
- High Holborn
- The single organism
- War and peace
- The dreadnaught launch
- Offenses
- Postscript
PB - Knopf
PP - New York, NY
PY - 2016
SN - 9780307269171
EP - 464 pp.
TI - Everything Explained That is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911
ER -