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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Chambers
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By pure coincidence a name which has twice been of importance in the history of British encyclopedias. The first of its kind was the Cyclopaedia; or, an Universal dictionary of arts and sciences (2 vols), published in London in 1728 by Ephraim Chambers; it was the inspiration for the famous French Encyclopédie of 1751–80. The better known Chambers's Encyclopaedia had no connection with the earlier work. It was first issued in 1860–68 by the Edinburgh firm of W. and R. Chambers (in weekly numbers costing three halfpence each, which were later printed as ten volumes) and it continued to be published until the 1970s.
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