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Bell and C. Macfarquhar, , by Society of Gentlemen in Scotland, ed. Donaldson, , by Society of Gentlemen in Scotland, ed. The final edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica has almost sold out after nostalgic readers rushed to acquire their own copies of the volume set, which will be the last ever printed. There were 12, copies printed of the volume edition, which fills almost a metre and a half on book shelves and weighs 62 kilogrammes.

When the announcement was made on 13 March that it would be the final set, there were 4, copies remaining, and that figure has now dropped to just , with expectations high of an imminent sell-out.

It's looking like we will sell out — I imagine the remaining will go very quickly. Future editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica will be available only online, despite the popularity of the final set.

The Encyclopedia Britannica has its roots in 18th-century Edinburgh, where printer Colin Macfarquhar, engraver Andrew Bell and scholar William Smellie decided to create an encyclopaedia which would be arranged alphabetically, "compiled upon a new plan in which the different Sciences and Arts are digested into distinct Treatises or Systems", with its chief purpose being "utility".