Talk:History of the Encyclopædia Britannica

Quote template?
Hi all, I've been experimenting with cquote and bquote for this article; which one looks better? Should we also try rquote? Open to any and all ideas, Willow 21:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Fine article
Well done on this. I know it was transferred from the main article, so there were more involved. It's a good read and balances heavy facts with curious details and quotes, and has a goldilocks balance on use of citations. I made a few small edits (forgot to sign in). Too tired to have a look at the quote templates.--Shtove 19:18, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Encyclopeadia Britannica Films
I don't understand why in either article (the main one or this one), there is no mention of the filmmaking arm of this company. I greatly enjoyed watching the films they made when I was in school and most everyone who was in any grammar school up to the 1990's certainly viewed several of them at some point. If someone doesn't add something, I will. 24.177.168.130 (talk) 03:53, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

"we are back to a world with limited time."

Costs and related sales materials
I see some mention of a few costs, but I'd like to know if anyone can dig up the historical costs of EB. Are there any recent (20yr or less) color flyers, or something more modern? The old scans are great! 66.190.241.89 (talk) 04:40, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

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List of prints (with different content) of the the fifteenth edition
Does anyone know a list of all prints of the fifteenth edition, which are distinct by different content and/or page counting? (This list should mention the size [number of pages] of each volume of each print as well.)

And: Is there an explanation, why Ency. Brit. didn't count every version with new content as new edition?

--Villa loga-WB (talk) 11:33, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

When does the 12th edition go into the public domain?
When does the 12 editions go into the public domain? And, if it doesn't, perhaps the article should go into the reasons why the 11th did become public domain, whereas the earlier editions are or are not.

Family Guy Guy (talk) 19:38, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
 * 12th edition is already in public domain, because it was published prior to 1924 (e.g., in 2019 the 12th edition from 1922 passed the "95 years" requirement of US copyright law). However, all other editions starting from the 13th edition of 1926 are still copyrighted. https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain --Piznajko (talk) 21:17, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Ninth edition, 1889, quote from Charles Mosley
In the section for the ninth edition, from 1889, there's a quote from Charles Mosley, in the Manchester Guardian Weekly (10 July 1988). How is it possible that a writer in 1988 would write about the ninth edition from 1889? That seems impossible - this must have been a quote from 1888 and the source book (https://archive.org/details/kistersbestencyc00kist/page/38 ) must have been a typo and the quote must have been misappropriated to Charles Mosley (1948 – 2013) and must have come from someone in 1880s --Piznajko (talk) 21:12, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, I see that it was indeed Mosely's quote, but it was written about the 15th edition (second version) from 1985, not the ninth edition from 1889. See Guardian's article from June 24, 1988 Charles Mosley - Living on borrowed glory.--Piznajko (talk) 00:20, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Thistle logo
What's the story on the thistle logo? Did the encyclopedia have any previous logos? Abductive (reasoning) 07:12, 10 December 2022 (UTC)