NELSON'S PERPETUAL LOOSE-LEAF ENCYCLOPÆDIA An International Work of Reference Illustrated with Colored Plates, Plans and Engravings. Nelson's Encyclopædia was first published in 1905 by Thomas Nelson & Sons, in Great Britain in part form. In 1907 it was issued in Great Britain in ten volumes and has had the largest sale of any Encyclopædia. Nelson's Encyclopædia, published in New York in 1906, was edited by a staff of American Scholars and Specialists under the direction of Frank Moore Colby, M.A., as Editor-in-Chief in the United States, and George Sandeman, M. A., in Edinburgh. In 1909 the Perpetual Loose-Leaf edition was issued under the direction of John H. Finley, LL.D., President of the College of the City of New York, Editor-in-Chief; Associate Editors, William Peterson, LL.D., C. M.G., Principal of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and George Sandeman, M.A., Edinburgh, Scotland, assisted by Scholars and Specialists in the United States and Canada, who prepared many special articles that are not to be found in any other Encyclopædia, VOLUME I Pages 481 to 640, both inclusive, constitute NELSON'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA Part IV |
