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https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:bba47b07-61ba-41c3-8c79-33c005c1f56d/CMSfacsimile_all.pdf https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:bba47b07-61b

• mistrial9 2y ago
  .. the one from 1906
  • AdamN 2y ago
    We believe in the old gods and we only read the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica as well.
• everybodyknows 2y ago
  Linked PDF says Copyright 1906, and I see no edition number -- apparently the first.
  • everybodyknows 2y ago
    The editors's assumed readership is authors preparing for reproduction with full access to capabilities of a printing press: > 75. SET IN SMALLER TYPE. Ordinarily, all prose extracts which will make three or more lines in the smaller type, and all poetry citations of two lines or more. An isolated prose quotation, even though its length would bring it under this rule, may properly be run into the text, if it bears an organic relation to the argument pre- sented. On the other hand, a quotation of one or two lines which is closely preceded or followed by longer extracts, set in smaller type, may likewise be reduced, as a matter of uniform appearance This although the mimeograph (for copying pages from a typewriter) was already in use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph
• garciansmith 2y ago
  I guess I should have specified a pdf of the 18th edition!