Robert's Rules of Order - Subsequent Editions and Versions

Subsequent Editions and Versions

As Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies (cover short title: Robert's Rules of Order)

• First Edition – February 1876
• Second Edition – July 1876
• Third Edition – 1893

As Robert's Rules of Order Revised

• Fourth Edition – 1915
• Fifth Edition – 1943
• Sixth Edition ("Seventy-Fifth Anniversary") – 1951

As Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised

• Seventh Edition – 1970 ("Enlarged more than twofold and totally recast to be made more explanatory")
• Eighth Edition – 1981
• Ninth Edition – 1990
• Tenth Edition – 2000 ("'Millennium,' thoroughly re-edited to refine conceptual clarity and consistency of statement")
• Eleventh Edition – 2011 ("Significantly re-edited with expanded and updated treatment of many topics")

Robert himself published the first four editions before his death in 1923, the last being the thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition published as Robert's Rules of Order Revised in May 1915. By this time Robert had long been retired from the Army with the rank of brigadier general.

Through a family trust, and later through the Robert's Rules Association, several subsequent editions of Robert's work have been published, including another major revision of the work. The seventh edition, published in February 1970 on the 94th anniversary of the publication of the first edition, was the first under the title Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised.

The current edition of the series became effective on September 23, 2011, and entitled Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, Eleventh Edition (2011) (hardback ISBN 978-0-306-82021-2; paperback ISBN 978-0-306-82020-5; leatherbound ISBN 978-0-306-82022-9). This edition states that it

supersedes all previous editions and is intended automatically to become the parliamentary authority in organizations whose bylaws prescribe "Robert's Rules of Order," "Robert's Rules of Order Revised," "Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised," or "the current edition of" any of these titles, or the like, without specifying a particular edition. —

In addition, since the Tenth Edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, a shorter reference guide, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, has been published to coincide with the main edition. The most recent edition of this shorter guide, the Second Edition, coincides with the current Eleventh Edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised.