Encyclopaedia Britannica could soon go public at a valuation ... the company’s books served as the oldest continuously published, English-language encyclopedias in the world, essentially collect ...

de la Merced used to read encyclopedias for fun as a child. For nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to show that ...

Over the years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica became a heavyweight of the knowledge business, both literally – the 32-volume 2010 edition, the last to run in print, weighed 129 pounds – and ...

The Encyclopedia Britannica was first published in 1768. It was originally composed of three volumes, but the second edition published in 1777 consisted of 10 volumes, the fourth edition published ...