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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7658408, member: 110350&quot;]In a sense, my set has &quot;the best of both worlds&quot;: it has all the volumes of the 11th edition (published in 1910) -- effectively containing the sum total of Victorian and Edwardian knowledge of the world, from an Anglo-American perspective -- plus the supplemental volumes issued in 1922 and 1926, respectively comprising the 12th and 13th editions when taken together with the volumes of the 11th edition. So nothing was eliminated.&nbsp; The supplemental volumes, especially the ones issued in 1922, contain what may still be the most detailed day-by-day history of the battles of World War I in existence. If you ever want to know every detail of any obscure battle that took place in Serbia or elsewhere on the Eastern Front -- generally not as familiar as the Western Front to those of us in Western Europe and the USA, for obvious reasons -- these volumes are the place to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was only with the 14th edition, published in 1929, that your friend&#039;s information about eliminating material becomes applicable. See <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Encyclopaedia-Britannica-English-language-reference-work/Fourteenth-edition" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Encyclopaedia-Britannica-English-language-reference-work/Fourteenth-edition" rel="nofollow">https://www.britannica.com/topic/Encyclopaedia-Britannica-English-language-reference-work/Fourteenth-edition</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Space was found for many new articles on scientific and other subjects by cutting down the more ample style and learned detail of the 11th edition, from which a great deal of material was carried over in shortened form. Some articles suffered from this truncation, done for mechanical rather than editorial reasons. . . .</p><p><br /></p><p>The adoption of a continuous revision policy meant that, after the 14th, there were to be no more “new editions.” The Great Depression of the 1930s made revision slow, and World War II curtailed effort in the 1940s. It was not until the mid-1950s that a sustained effort to remake the encyclopaedia began. By Encyclopædia Britannica’s 200th birthday in 1968 the task had been accomplished; the encyclopaedia had less old material in it, probably, than at any time in its history.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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