The 18th edition, with 12 volumes, an atlas, a dictionary, and 1 supplementary volume, was published between 1977 and 1982.
A completely revised and reset 17th edition, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (1966 81), had 20 volumes, an atlas, 3 supplementary volumes, and a dictionary.
Augustus got better press in the 1961-to-1970 supplementary volume of the DNB, but the New DNB admits that his reputation "deteriorated after his death".
(Introduction: Principes élémentaires de botanique page 61 ) * vol. I 1815 * vol. II 1805 * vol. III 1815 * vol. IV 1815 Latin Index page 931 * vol. V 1815 Supplementary volume, volume index page 650 Les liliacées vols.
It offers a different –a supplementary– set of standards".
The 16th edition (1952 63), with 12 volumes, 2 supplementary volumes, and an atlas, reinforced the work's status as a reliable reference set covering an extremely wide range of topics with short articles.
The 10th edition (1902 03) was made by the addition of an 11-volume supplement to the ninth, numbering the supplementary volumes where the ninth left off, from 25 to 35.
In the case of Encyclopædia Britannica, the first edition (1768 71) was replaced by an essentially new and enlarged second edition in 1777 84; the ninth edition (1875 89), however, remained in print until the preparation of the 11th edition (1910 11), with a 10th edition nominally created by the addition of 11 supplementary volumes in the interim.
(The dictionary has since been updated with 10 supplementary volumes. The last of these appeared in 1995, but it covers only people who died in 1980 or earlier).
When Richard Burton produced his translation from the Arabic in 10 volumes with six supplementary volumes (1885-8), he went to the opposite extreme and not only kept the sex scenes in but exaggerated them, and he produced extensive notes on such matters as homosexuality, bestiality and castration.
The preface to the 10th edition pointed out that "these supplementary volumes are the product of the New World as well as of the Old".
