# List of 18th-century encyclopedias
## In English
### General

* The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary by Jeremy Collier (1701)
* An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary (1703)
* Lexicon Technicum by John Harris (1704)
* Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences by Ephraim Chambers (1728)
* General Dictionary, Historical and Critical by Thomas Birch (1734-41)
* Dictionarium polygraphicum by John Barrow (1735)
* An Universal History of Arts and Sciences by Dennis de Coetlogon (1745)
* A new universal history of arts and sciences (1759)
* A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences (1763)
* Complete Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences by Thomas Henry Croker (1764–1766)
* The new complete dictionary of arts and sciences, or, An universal system of useful knowledge Vol. 2 (1778)
* New Royal Cyclopaedia and Encyclopaedia (1788). Edited by George Selby Howard and published in London in 1788, this was largely a plagiarization of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia.
* Encyclopædia Perthensis (1796–1806, ed 2 by 1816)

#### Britannica

* Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771)
* Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition (1777–1784)
* Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition (1797)
* Dobson's Encyclopædia (1789–1798; largely a reprint of the Britannica's 3rd edition)
* Moore's Dublin Edition (1788–1797; largely a reprint of the Britannica's 3rd edition)

### Specialized

* The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry
* Medicinal Dictionary by Robert James (1743–1745),
* The universal dictionary of trade and commerce by Malachy Postlethwayt (an adaptation of Dictionnaire universel de commerce. by Jacques Savary des Brûlons (1751)
* Urania or, A compleat view of the heavens: containing the antient and modern astronomy, in form of a dictionary by John Hill (1754)
* Chemical Dictionary by William Nicholson (1795)
* A mathematical and philosophical dictionary by Charles Hutton (1795)

## In Chinese

* Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (1725–26), Qing dynasty
* Complete Library of the Four Treasuries (1782), Qing dynasty

## In French

* Dictionnaire de Trévoux (1704–1771)
* La Science des personnes de cour, d'épée et de robe by Chevigny (1707)
* Nouveau dictionnaire historique et critique by Jacques-Georges Chauffepié (1750)
* Dictionaire historique by Prosper Marchand (1758)
* Encyclopédie, by Diderot and D'Alembert (1751–1772)
* Descriptions des Arts et Métiers (1761–1788)
* Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines, Yverdon, (1770–1780)
* Encyclopédie Méthodique by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1782–1832)

### Specialized

* Dictionnaire philosophique, Voltaire

## In German

* Reales Staats- und Zeitungs-Lexicon by Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz (1704)
* Curieuses Natur- Kunst- Gewerk- und Handlungs-Lexicon by Paul Jacob Marperger (1712)
* Allgemeines lexikon der Künste und Wißenschaften by Johann Theodor Jablonski (1721)
* Musicalisches Lexicon by Johann Gottfried Walther (1732)
* Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon by Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (1733–1751)
* Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon by Johann Heinrich Zedler (1751–1754)
* Oekonomische Encyklopädie by Johann Georg Krünitz (1773–1858)
* Deutschen Encyclopädie (1788)
* Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonküstler by Ernst Ludwig Gerber (1790–1792)
* Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten (1796–1808; see Brockhaus)

## In Hebrew

* Ma'aseh Toviyyah (1707)

## In Italian

* Vincenzo Coronelli Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana (1701–1707)
* Gianfrancesco Pivati Nuovo dizionario scientifico e curioso, sacroprofano (1746–1751)
* Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Idea dell'Universo (1778-1792)

## In Japanese

* Wakan Sansai Zue (1712)

## In Polish

* Nowe Ateny (1745)
* Zbiór potrzebniejszych wiadomości (1781)