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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Pears Cyclopaedia
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Annual which was first published in 1897 as an advertisement for Pears soap; its long survival demonstrates, like *Bubbles, the firm's genius at that time for publicity. The original Pears Shilling Cyclopaedia promised 'a mass of curious and useful information about things that everyone ought to know in commerce, history, science, religion, literature'.
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