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Encyclopædia Britannica - Reference Work, 11th Edition, Supplements: The 11th edition brought a change in both plan and method of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Previous editions had consistently planned to provide comprehensive treatises on major subjects as well as detailed information on particulars and had inevitably lacked coherence because of the method of printing, whereby they appeared ...
First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published 1768–71. The shortcomings of the Encyclopédie were obvious. The essential ingredients of an encyclopaedia, the entries on every conceivable subject, had been sacrificed to make place for lengthy polemics on the controversial topics of the day.
