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Arthur Mee

English writer and editor

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children’s encyclopaedias

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    In encyclopaedia: Children’s encyclopaedias

    …the English writer and editor Arthur Mee, it was called The Children’s Encyclopaedia (1910) in Great Britain and The Book of Knowledge (1912) in the United States. The contents comprised vividly written and profusely illustrated articles; because the system of article arrangement was obscure, much of the success of the…

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