Source Book

Source Book was the most common name for a family of American encyclopedias published from the 1910s through 1936.

[1] Their new encyclopedia, Home and School Reference Work, was published in 1913 in 6 volumes under the imprint of the Dixon and Rucker Company.

The title was apparently chosen to capitalize on the success of the World Book Encyclopedia.

This led to a cease and desist order from the Federal Trade Commission in 1929 (Docket#1371).

In the latter case the Perpetual Encyclopedia Corporation and others were taken to task for selling American Reference Library as a recent work, when in fact it was published as far back as 1913.