 This edition was a commercial failure, losing Sears roughly $1.75 million, after which Sears gave it back to Hooper's widow, Harriett Meeker Cox, and her brother, William J. Cox, who ran the company from 1923 to 1928.The passage of a few years led to a better perspective on that era.In 1926, the "Britannica" released three new volumes covering the history of 1910–1926, which were intended to supplant those of the twelfth edition.