102 volumes of the encyclopedia.
3 volumes of the encyclopedia.
The
Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana
(also called
Enciclopedia Espasa
, or
Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe
, after its publisher, founded by
Jose Espasa Anguera
) is a Spanish encyclopedia. It comprises 72 volumes (numbered from 1 to 70, with parts 18 and 28 consisting of two volumes each) published from 1908 to 1930 plus a ten-volume appendix published 1930?33. Between 1935 and 2003, 33 supplemental volumes were published plus an index, another A?Z appendix, and an atlas, for a total of 118 volumes. Each of the volumes vary in length. As of 1986, it is the longest
[1]
printed encyclopedia with 105,000 pages and 165,200,000 words.
Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout The Ages
regards the
Espasa
as one of the greatest encyclopedias, along with the
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
and the
Enciclopedia Italiana
(p. 147). "This work is remarkable for its detail: maps and plans of even remote and obscure places; reproductions and descriptions of works of art entered under their titles; lengthy
bibliographies
, international in scope; full dictionary treatment of individual words with, in many cases, foreign equivalents; and usually affording full scope to lengthy treatment of important subjects." (201) The authors of the work, as an example of its scope, mentioned in the preface (vii) that all botanical
genera
known at the time were covered in the work. Common words (not proper names) are translated into English, French, German,
Esperanto
and other languages.
The aim of the publishers was to produce an encyclopedia reference book in Spanish that covered scientific and technological knowledge as well as history, biographies,
geography
,
arts
, and the literature of Spain and Latin America.
According to calculations made by its publishers, the encyclopaedia has more than 165,000 pages and 200 million words. The 82-volume version is also estimated to have over 1,000,000 articles (Kister 450).
Only minor revisions have been made to the original volumes, such as the rewrite of a part of the 1910 "
bicicleta
" (bicycle) article which had enumerated a "
pistol
or
revolver
" as one of the things to be taken on a bicycle tour.
In 2003 a repackaged version was published in 90 volumes, consisting of the original 82 volumes plus a new 8-volume
Complemento Enciclopedico 1934?2002
update. The old supplements will not be republished.
References
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General references
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- EUI
(in Spanish), Filosofia
.
- Collison, Robert (1966),
Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout The Ages
(2nd ed.), London: Hafner
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