Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
First page of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition | |
| Language | British English |
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Release number | 11 |
| Subject | General |
| Publisher | Horace Everett Hooper |
Publication date | 1910–1911 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print and digital |
| Preceded by | Encyclopædia Britannica Tenth Edition |
| Followed by | Encyclopædia Britannica Twelfth Edition (supplementary update), Encyclopædia Britannica Fourteenth Edition (full revision) |
| Text | Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition at Wikisource |
The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time. This edition of the encyclopaedia, containing 40,000 entries, has entered the public domain and is readily available on the Internet. Its use in modern scholarship and as a reliable source has been deemed problematic due to the outdated nature of some of its content. Nevertheless, the 11th edition has retained considerable value as a time capsule of scientific and historical information, as well as scholarly attitudes of the era immediately preceding World War I.