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Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia is a general-knowledge American encyclopedia first published in 1971 under that title. It continued the firm's earlier encyclopedia tradition and was issued in approximately 29 volumes. It became widely known in the United States through supermarket promotional editions in the 1970s and 1980s.

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When did Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia receive that title?

The encyclopedia was issued under the title Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia from 1971. A typical set contains about 29 volumes, with 28 volumes of articles and a separate index volume. [Funk & Wagnalls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_%26_Wagnalls)

Why were Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedias sold in supermarkets?

The publisher became famous for a continuity campaign in which shoppers collected one volume at a time with their groceries. This supermarket model made the set widely known in the United States during the 1950s and 1970s. [Funk & Wagnalls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_%26_Wagnalls)

Is Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia a dictionary or an encyclopedia?

It is a general-knowledge encyclopedia, not simply a dictionary. It continued the firm's earlier reference tradition, including the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia first published in 1912. [Funk & Wagnalls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_%26_Wagnalls)

When did Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia stop being printed?

The last printing of the New Encyclopedia is generally recorded as 1997. The Funk & Wagnalls brand was later acquired by World Book in 2009. [Funk & Wagnalls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_%26_Wagnalls)

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