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WILLIAMS (Henry Smith). THE HISTORIANS' History of the World. London [& New York]. [1926]. - WILLIAMS (Henry Smith) THE HISTORIANS' History of the World . A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations from the Earliest Times as Recorded by over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All Ages. Edited with the Assistance of a Distinguished Board of Advisers and Contributors. Fifth edition, in twenty-seven volumes. London [& New York]: The Encyclopædia Britannica Co., Ltd., [1926]. 27 v.: il.; 225 mm. Fifth edition of this encyclopedia of world history, published in 27 volumes by Encyclopædia Britannica in 1926. The work was originally conceived and edited by Henry Smith Williams (1863-1943), a prolific American physician and writer, author of numerous works of popular science and history. The first edition appeared in New York in 1902, in 25 volumes, by Encyclopædia Britannica and the Outlook Company; the 1926 edition, in 27 volumes, is the most complete, adding two supplementary volumes dedicated to the 20th century and the First World War, entitled These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making. The work results from the compilation and synthesis of texts by the greatest historians of all eras and civilizations—more than two thousand, according to the title—organized chronologically and geographically in thematic volumes covering Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Islam, India, China, medieval and modern Europe, and the Americas. Each volume includes a color or halftone frontispiece, numerous illustrations within the text and plates outside the text, portraits, maps, and facsimiles. The work has been published in several editions and countries (London, New York, with variants from the History Association, Hooper & Jackson, and The Times), with the 1926 edition in 27 volumes being the last and most extensive. Curious. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate