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    Chambers's Encyclopaedia was founded in 1859 by William and Robert Chambers of Edinburgh and became one of the most important English language encyclopaedias...
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  • history and founders: William Chambers and Robert Chambers. George G. Harrap and Co. Chambers's Encyclopaedia The Chambers Dictionary Harrap's Shorter French...
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    Encyclopedia (redirect from Encyclopædia)
    An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopaedia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general...
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  • Universal Knowledge, which itself was a reprint of the British Chambers's Encyclopaedia. The title was changed to The New International Encyclopedia in...
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  • The Chambers Dictionary (TCD) was first published by William and Robert Chambers as Chambers's English Dictionary in 1872. It was an expanded version of...
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    writer and editor. He edited Chambers's Encyclopaedia from 1888 to 1892, Chambers's Biographical Dictionary in 1897 and Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature...
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    EPHRAIM CHAMBERS. The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert owed its inception to a French translation of Chambers's work. Chambers's Encyclopaedia – a work...
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  • encyclopedia was based upon Chambers's Encyclopaedia: "Especially are we indebted to the famous Chambers's Encyclopaedia ... With its publishers we have...
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    Andrew Findlater (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    1 January 1885) was a Scottish editor notable for his work on Chambers's Encyclopaedia. He was born near Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, the son of a small farmer...
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  • the more like water, the higher the quality. The 1753 edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia states "The first water in Diamonds means the greatest purity and...
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