The Idea of a World Encyclopedia in Harper’s Magazine 174, No. 1043, pp. 472-482, April 1937
Harper & Brothers, 1937. 1st Edition. In November 1936, H.G. Wells delivered a lecture at The Royal Institution wherein her first presented the idea of a world encyclopedia. Following the lecture and also in 1936, Wells “issued a pamphlet of 32 pages entitled The Idea of a World Encyclopaedia” (Norman..... More