All three volumes show wear to extremities ; Comprehensive listing of names of places and people with indexes on pronunciation and heads of state
Volume 1: A - Emin Pasha
Volume 2: Em'ly - Nakuru
Volume 3: Nala - Zyryanians / Appendices
The New Century Cyclopedia of Names is a unique reference work consisting solely of information about proper names having importance in the English-speaking world. We give the most frequently used English and native spellings and pronunciations, as well as the essential facts, about more than 100,000 proper names of every description—persons, places, historical events, plays and operas, works of fiction, literary characters, works of art, mythological and legendary persons and places, and any other class of proper names of interest or importance today. The only condition of insertion has been that the name should be one about which information would be likely to be sought. The original Century Cyclopedia of Names was for over fifty years the chief English-language source of information about all kinds of proper names. Benjamin E. Smith, the editor of the original work, wrote on September 1, 1894, that "it is entirely independent in subject and use, . . . primarily a dictionary of proper names, giving their orthography and pronunciation and such explanation of them as is necessary for their identification; and, secondarily, a condensed encyclopedia in its. Treatment of several thousands of the more important articles." So well were the high editorial standards of the original book maintained that the original cyclopedia was still used fifty-eight years after its original publication, to obtain information about proper names entered in no other generally available reference work. For many years there has been a persistent demand by librarians and scholars that the original Century Cyclopedia of Names be brought up to date. In 1947 the publisher acceded to this demand, and work was begun on the modernization and revision of the Century Cyclopedia of Names.
All three volumes show wear to extremities ; Comprehensive listing of names of places and people with indexes on pronunciation and heads of state
Volume 1: A - Emin Pasha
Volume 2: Em'ly - Nakuru
Volume 3: Nala - Zyryanians / Appendices
The New Century Cyclopedia of Names is a unique reference work consisting solely of information about proper names having importance in the English-speaking world. We give the most frequently used English and native spellings and pronunciations, as well as the essential facts, about more than 100,000 proper names of every description—persons, places, historical events, plays and operas, works of fiction, literary characters, works of art, mythological and legendary persons and places, and any other class of proper names of interest or importance today. The only condition of insertion has been that the name should be one about which information would be likely to be sought. The original Century Cyclopedia of Names was for over fifty years the chief English-language source of information about all kinds of proper names. Benjamin E. Smith, the editor of the original work, wrote on September 1, 1894, that "it is entirely independent in subject and use, . . . primarily a dictionary of proper names, giving their orthography and pronunciation and such explanation of them as is necessary for their identification; and, secondarily, a condensed encyclopedia in its. Treatment of several thousands of the more important articles." So well were the high editorial standards of the original book maintained that the original cyclopedia was still used fifty-eight years after its original publication, to obtain information about proper names entered in no other generally available reference work. For many years there has been a persistent demand by librarians and scholars that the original Century Cyclopedia of Names be brought up to date. In 1947 the publisher acceded to this demand, and work was begun on the modernization and revision of the Century Cyclopedia of Names.
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