First era In the first era -LRB- 1st -- 6th editions , NUMBER@1 -- NUMBER@2 -RRB- , the Britannica was managed by its original founders , PERSON@1 and PERSON@2 , and by their friends and relations , such as PERSON@3 , PERSON@4 and PERSON@5 .

First era In the first era -LRB- 1st -- 6th editions , NUMBER@1 -- NUMBER@2 -RRB- , the Britannica was controlled by the people who first wrote it , PERSON@1 and PERSON@2 , and by their friends and relations , such as PERSON@3 , PERSON@4 and PERSON@5 .
