Standard Dictionary of Facts

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The Standard Dictionary of Facts was a single volume general encyclopedia that was published from 1908 to 1927 on an mostly annual basis by the Frontier Press of Buffalo. It was in some ways a predecessor to that firm's much more famous Lincoln Library of Essential Information . [1]

The first edition was edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff, who had previously edited the Century Book of Facts . Ruoff association with book was evidently terminated sometime in 1916 or 1917, because, though he is credited as the editor of the 1916 edition he is only credited as the editor of the first edition in 1917 and not mentioned in subsequent editions. [2]

It was published on an annual bases, a new edition coming out each year between 1908 and 1927 inclusive, with the exception of 1915 and 1926. [3]

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References

  1. S. Padraig Walsh Anglo-American General Encyclopedias 1704-1967 New York: R. R. Baker and Company, 1968 p.157
  2. Walsh pp.157, The standard dictionary of facts; history, language, literature, biography, geography, travel, art, government, politics, industry, invention, commerce, science, education, natural history, statistics and miscellany Buffalo, N.Y., The Frontier press company 1911, 1916, 1917 and 1919 editions, title pages
  3. The standard dictionary of facts; history, language, literature, biography, geography, travel, art, government, politics, industry, invention, commerce, science, education, natural history, statistics and miscellany Buffalo, N.Y., The Frontier press company 1911 inside cover flap

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