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Walter Jackson

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contribution to “Encyclopædia Britannica”

  • editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica
    In Encyclopædia Britannica: Ninth edition

    Hooper, who with another publisher, Walter M. Jackson, bought out the other two partners in 1900 and purchased the Encyclopædia Britannica outright from A. and C. Black in 1901. Hooper’s advertisements had not concealed the fact that he was selling books originally printed a number of years previously, and in…

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  • editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica
    In Encyclopædia Britannica: Eleventh edition

    …1909 during a lawsuit between Walter M. Jackson and Horace Hooper. Hooper was determined to spend enough money to ensure that the publication would be really up-to-date, while Jackson wanted to carry over a high proportion of articles from the ninth and 10th editions. Hooper had managed to interest the…

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