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The Outline of History

H. G. Wells

First published 1924
Publisher The Macmillan Company
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages 1171

This book was extensively revised and updated for each publication, which occurred in the years: 1918-1919, 1920, 1923, 1925, 1930, 1940, all by Wells. Further updates/revisions were done in 1949, 1956, 1961 and 1969 by Raymond Postgate and G. P. Wells [though the last was not published until 1971. All editions from 1949 to date have been in two volumes.

  • 21st Printing of the Third Edition, Revised September 1921.
  • "Copyright 1920"
  • "Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1920."
  • "Third Edition revised and rearranged September, 1921."
  • "Reprinted September, 1921; October, 1921; November, 1921; December, 1921; January, 1922; March, 1922; July, 1922; August, 1922; September, 1922; October, 1922; November, 1922; December, 1922; January, 1923; April, 1923; April, 1923; July, 1923; November, 1923; December, 1923; January, 1924; May, 1924; November, 1924."

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Mankind Cover 1926 Garden City Publishing Co. Hardcover Nonfiction xxi+1171
The Outline of History 1940 Garden City Publishing Co. Hardcover Nonfiction 1286
The Outline of History: Volume One Cover 1974 Doubleday & Company / SFBC Hardcover Nonfiction 1525 xxii+550
The Outline of History: Volume Two Cover 1974 Doubleday & Company / SFBC Hardcover Nonfiction 1525 553
The Outline of History (reprint of 1920 edition) 2014 Project Gutenberg eBook Nonfiction 45368