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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4658823, member: 110350&quot;]Here&#039;s a photo of my 11th edition Encyclopedia Britannica -- containing, essentially, all the cumulative knowledge of Victorian and Edwardian Britain -- together with the supplemental volumes published after World War I, containing minute-by-minute descriptions of every notable battle, and constituting (along with the 11th edition) the 13th edition:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1149704[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought the whole set in London in 1986, at a used bookstore near the British Museum, run by a stereotypically bookish elderly Englishman. He shipped the whole set to me in New York City, where it arrived a month or two later in a wooden packing-crate.&nbsp; I still find it useful for looking up obscure battles and equally obscure 19th-century personages.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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