Dewey's Decimal Classification

DDC devised by Melvil Dewey in 1876 The publication of a 42-pages pamphlet entitled A classification and subject index for cataloguing and arranging the books and pamphlets of a library This was the first edition, which consisted of 12 pages of preparatory matter, 12 pages of tables and 18'pages of index, a total of 42 pages. It contained nearly 1000 classes 1stedition -1876 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 2ndedition -1885 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 3rdedition -1888 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 4thedition -1891 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 11th edition _______________________________ 12th edition -1922 (edited by ________________ ) 13th edition -1932 (edited by ________________ ) 14th edition -1942 (edited by ________________ ) 15th edition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson ) 16th edition -1958 (edited by Benjamin A Custer ) 17th edition -1965 edited by Benjamin A Custer ) 18th edition -1976  edited by Benjamin A Custer )  (in 3 volumes) 19th edition – 1979 edited by Benjamin A Custer )(in 3 volumes) 20th edition -1989 (edited by John P Comaromi) (in 4 volumes) 21st  edition -1996 (edited by Joan S. Mitchell)   (in 4 volumes) 22nd   edition -2003 (edited by Joan S. Mitchell) 23rdedition - 2011 (in 4 vol) Joan S. Mitchell, Julianne Beall and Rebecca Green  The abridged edition, Abridged Edition 15, published in February 2012 Forest Press has been the publisher of DDC since 1911 a Division of OCLC Online Computer Library Centre Edition 19 of DDC had been printed from the computer tape in 1979 DDC 21 appeared in two formats: In print; and Dewey for Windows, a Microsoft Windows TM-based version (released in August 1996) (CD version) Latter is known as Dewey for Windows (DfW)