The Encyclopaedia Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica) 11th Edition Complete 29 Volume Set -

Encyclopaedia Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica), New York, 1910; 11th edition; 29 octavo volumes; illustrated; green cloth boards; gilt spine titles. Complete 29 volume set, with index, of the much desired "Handy Volume Issue," printed on lightweight India paper ("onion skin"). The Britannica 11th edition, published 1910-1911, is highly regarded both for the quality of its scholarship and the distinguished authorship of its articles, which include some of the best-known scholars and writers of the day: Charles Swinburne, Geo. Washington Cable, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Huxley, John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bertrand Russell among them. It was also the first edition to manifest a substantial American character. Its compiler, as well as 11% of its contributors, were American, and Volume I carries a dedication page to both King George V and President William Howard Taft. All volumes in Fine condition. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, bindings absolutely tight, sound, and square, no soiling, ownership markings, or page markings of any kind, titles brilliant. A handsome set of the most sought-after of Britannica editions, and an invaluable repository of authoritative information in an age of knee-jerk internet quackery.