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Originally Posted by Katsunami
What makes you think I have not looked at your link?
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This remark: "
While I'd love to have a Brittanica encyclopedia with regard to the looks of it, I don't see any point in having a 1950's edition or something." in which you appear to believe I'm talking about the encyclopaedia.
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What I see, is that a complete 54 volume set is offered for about 10% of the price it would have cost normally, at the time of printing. One of the sets is printed in the 1950's.
.... However, for me, they wouldn't do because they are too old, or not extensive enough to serve as an encyclopedia, with regard to the information they contain.
If I still don't understand correctly, I'd like to request that you explain a bit further.
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I'm not sure what to say, really. Schrödinger's
What Is Life?, Voltaire's
Candide, Pascal's
Provincial Letters, de Montaigne's
Essays and everything else that is included in the set will be exactly the same whether you purchase one printed in the 50s or one printed in the 90s or later. Given the large number of complete sets available, there's also no reason why you need to fixate on one printed quite that long ago.
Anyway, if anyone else out there has toyed with the idea of putting together a collection of the greatest and most influential books in Western history, then I can't recommend
Great Books of the Western World enough. 54-60 (depending on edition) splendidly bound volumes for the price of a handful new hardcovers of middling structural quality.