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It is truly a scholar's edition. Many articles were written by the best-known scholars of the age, such as Edmund Gosse, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Muir, Prince Peter Kropotkin, and William Michael Rossetti[?], as well as many other names now less known. Many of these articles are still of value and interest to modern readers and scholars.
The Eleventh Edition was a major reorganization and rewriting of the Encyclopędia Britannica, which was first published in three volumes in 1768. The Eleventh Edition formed the basis for every edition of the Encyclopędia Britannica up until 1974, when the completely new Fifteenth Edition based on modern principles of information presentation was published.
Sir Kenneth Clark, in Another Part of the Wood, wrote of the Eleventh Edition:
The 1911 edition is no longer restricted by copyright, and it is available in several more modern forms. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia volume 1 is actually 1911 EB volume 1, renamed to address Britannica's trademark concerns. However, Project Gutenberg currently only holds an electronic version of Volume 1.
Distributed Proofreaders is currently working on producing a complete electronic edition of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, which will be donated to Project Gutenberg when finished.
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External links The 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica is now in the public domain. Versions can be found at:
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