The Encyclopaedia Britannica

A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information

• Author(s): Hugh Chisholm,
• Publisher: Encyclopædia britannica Company
• Pages: 1156
• Language: en

Description:... This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.