29 volumes including an index. Profusely illustrated with plates from photographs, drawings, engravings, facsimiles, maps, etc. Numerous figure drawings throughout the text. 29.6x22 cm (11½x8½, full flexible morocco tooled in gilt, all edges gilt; original tall wooden case with each volume lying horizontally on its individual shelf. Eleventh Edition, Large Paper Issue.

The most scholarly and enduring edition, complete with its bookcase. This is the more desirable large paper issue as opposed to the "Handy Volume Issue," which is somewhat smaller for quicker reference. The first complete edition seen in the twentieth century, ringing in with it less prescriptive, descriptive approaches; also the first to be issued as a complete set instead of in parts and the last Britannica with articles written by scholars in each of their own particular field of expertise