As the world is constantly changing, the World Book Encyclopedia is generally published each year. New editions of the World Book Encyclopedia have been published since 1917, and continue even today in 2013.
The latest edition of the World Book Encyclopedia was published in 2021. It is known as the "2018 Edition."
According to Wikipedia, the first edition of the World Book Encyclopedia was published in 1917.
The first edition of the World Book Encyclopedia was printed in 1917.
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Dorothy Straight didn't publish a world book encyclopedia, but she did publish the book: How the World Began in 1964 when she was four.
No, Dorothy Straight is not the author of The World Book Encyclopedia. The World Book Encyclopedia is a general reference work published by World Book, Inc. and written and edited by a team of contributors.
The World Book Encyclopedia can be purchased directly form the World Book website. World Book is owned by the firm of Scott Fetzer. It was first published in 1917.
The year of the encyclopedia is the year of the copyright; there are far too many editions to answer this question directly.
The Britannica website is the online home of the world famous Encyclopedia Britannica which is the world's oldest continuously published encyclopedia. It contains hundreds of thousands of articles, images, videos and biographies on a wide range of topics.
This question presumes that Lippincott did publish the first authorized American edition. However (according to Bookseller World), Frederick A Stokes Company published the first edition, even preceding the UK edition by a year.
Since 1998, in addition to the print and CD-ROM editions of the 22-volume, 13,800-page encyclopedia, World Book has published an online version called the World Book Online Reference Center.