# List of 19th-century encyclopedias

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## 1800s

* Encyclopaedia Londinensis (1801)
* The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature ed. Abraham Rees (1802–1819)
* Domestic Encyclopedia (1802)
* English Encyclopaedia (1802)
* Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia (1802, second edition 1811)
** Minor Encyclopedia (1803), edited by Thaddeus M. Harris, in the United States; copies much of Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia
* Encyclopædia Perthensis (Perth, Scotland, 1803; 1816)
* The New and Complete American Encyclopædia or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1805–1811)
* A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1806–7)
* Edinburgh Encyclopædia (1808–1830)
* British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1809)

## 1810s

* The imperial encyclopaedia, or, Dictionary of the sciences and arts : comprehending also the whole circle of miscellaneous literature by Thomas Exley and William Moore Johnson (1812)
* Pantologia (1813)
* Encyclopedia mancuniensis (1815) (Link contains Vol. 2)
* Modern Encyclopaedia edited by Amyas Deane Burrowes (1816)
* Encyclopædia Metropolitana (1817)

## 1820s

* Encyclopædia Edinensis (1827)
* Oxford Encyclopedia (1828) (Link contains Vols. 4 and 5)
* London Encyclopaedia (1829)
* Encyclopaedia Americana (1829–1833), 13 volumes, editor Francis Lieber.
* Cabinet Cyclopedia (1829)

## 1830s

* Maunder's Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference (1830)
** Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference (1833)
* British Cyclopaedia of the Arts and Sciences (1833)
* Penny Cyclopaedia (1833–1846)
** National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge (1847)
** National Cyclopedia (1867)
** Imperial Cyclopaedia (1850)
** English Cyclopaedia (1854–1862, supp. 1869–1873), later served as the basis for the Everyman's Encyclopaedia (1913)
* Chambers's Information for the People (1835)

## 1840s

* Popular Encyclopedia or Conversations Lexicon (1841)
** New Popular Encyclopedia (1901)
** Modern Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1906)
** Blackie's Modern Cyclopaedia of Universal Information (1889) (link contains Vols. 1–3, 5)
*** New Cabinet Cyclopedia and Treasury of Knowledge (1891) American ed.
*** New National Cyclopedia and Treasury (1899)
*** XXth century Cyclopaedia and Atlas (1901)
*** New Twentieth Century Cyclopaedia (1903)
*** New and Complete Universal Self-Pronouncing Dictionary (1905)
*** New Cosmopolitan Encyclopaedia (1906)
*** National Encyclopedia of Reference (1912)
* Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art (1842)

## 1850s

* Library of General Knowledge (1850)
* Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature and Art (1851); New and enlarged edition (1886)
* Popular Educator (1852)
** The Popular educator: a complete encyclopaedia (1884)
** New Popular Educator (1890)
* Enquire Within Upon Everything (1856)
* New American Cyclopaedia (1857–1863), 16 volumes, editors George Ripley and Charles A. Dana
** Annual Cyclopedia (1862; an annual supplement to the New American Cyclopeadia; renamed Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia in 1876; final edition in 1903)
** American Cyclopaedia (1873–1876), the retitled New American Cyclopaedia
* Family Cyclopaedia (1859)

## 1860s

* Chambers's Encyclopaedia (1860)
* World Almanac (1868)
* Whitaker's Almanack (1868)

## 1870s

* Zell's Popular Encyclopedia (1870)
** National Encyclopedia (1873) A re-issue of Zell's
** People's Encyclopedia (1873) A British abridgement of Zell's
** Universal Encyclopedia (1878) A re-issue of Zell's
** School Encyclopedia (1899) A re-issue of Zell's
* Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information (1876)
** Student's Encyclopaedia of Universal Knowledge (1883) A re-issue of Globe
** Illustrated Globe Encyclopaedia (1890–93) An illustrated re-issue of Globe
* Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia (1876–1878), 4 volumes; editors Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard and Arnold Henry Guyot
** Johnson's (revised) universal cyclopaedia (1886)
** Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia (1893–1897)
** Universal Cyclopaedia (1900)
* Encyclopedic Dictionary (1879)
** Lloyd's encyclopaedic dictionary (1895) (link only contains Vols. 1-2 and 5)
** International Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1900)
** International dictionary and cyclopaedia (1901)
** Imperial dictionary and Cyclopaedia (1901)
* Beeton's dictionary of universal information (1879)
* Library of Universal Knowledge (1879), a reprint of Chambers's Encyclopaedia with American additions; many editions through the 1880s
** International Cyclopaedia A re-issue in 1893, many editions during the 1890s.
** New International Encyclopedia (1904)

## 1880s

* Universal Instructor (1880)
* Little Cyclopaedia of Common Things (1882)
* People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1883)
** New People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge 1889 re-issue (Three of four vols. in link)
* Cassell's Concise Cyclopaedia (1883)
** Cassell's Cabinet Encyclopedia (1904)
* Peale's Popular Educator and Cyclopedia (1883)
** Home Library of Useful Knowledge 1886 re-issue
* Library of National Information and Popular Knowledge Vols 3-4, Vols 5-6 (1884)
* Home Teacher (1886)
* Cassell's Miniature Cyclopaedia (1888)
* Pocket Encyclopaedia (1888)
* Century Dictionary (1889)
** Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1901)

## 1890s

* Ready Reference (1890)
* World Wide Encyclopedia and Gazetteer (1890)
* Cassell's Storehouse of General Information (1891)
** Cassell's Encyclopedia of General Information (1908)
* The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge (1891)
* Ogilvie's Encyclopedia of Useful Information (1891)
* Chamber's Condensed Encyclopedia (1895)
* Harper's Book of Facts (1895)
* Pears Cyclopaedia (1897), originally named Pears' Shilling Cyclopaedia
* The People's Select Cyclopedia (1897), by Charles Nisbett
* Standard Cyclopaedia (1897)
** X-Rays of Intellectual Light (1899)
** Standard American Book of Knowledge (1900)
** World's Book of Knowledge (1901)
** 20th Century Book of Universal Knowledge (1901)
** American Educator and Library of Knowledge (1902)
** New Century Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1902)
** American Home Educator and Book of Universal Knowledge (1903)
** Standard Library of Knowledge (1904)
* Chandler's Encyclopedia (1898)
** New Complete Condensed Encyclopedia (1909)
* Universal Cyclopaedia and Dictionary edited by Charles Morris (1898)
** International Library of Reference (1899)
** Universal Reference Library (1900)
** Twentieth Century Encyclopedia link goes to vols. 2, 5 and 6 (1901)
** Imperial Reference Library (1901)
* Columbian Cyclopaedia (1899)
** Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1903)
** New Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1906)
** United Editors Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1909)
** United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia (1911)
* Werner's Universal Encyclopedia (1899)

## Britannica

* Supplement to the third edition (1801, 1803)
* Fourth edition (1810)
* Fifth edition (1817)
* Sixth edition (1823)
* Supplement to the fifth edition, (later known as the supplement to the fourth, fifth and sixth editions) (1824)
* Seventh edition (1842)
* Eighth edition (1860)
* Ninth edition (1889)

## Arabic

* Al-Muhit al Muhit ("The ocean of oceans"), Butrus al-Bustani (1867)

## Czech

* Riegrův slovník naučný (11 volumes, 1860–1874; supplement vol. 1890. Online)
* Stručný všeobecný slovník věcný (9 volumes, 1874–1885, online)
* Příruční slovník všeobecných vědomostí (2 volumes, 1882–1887, editor Josef Rank, vol 1 online)
* Otto's encyclopedia (Ottův slovník naučný, 28 vols., 1888–1909, 12 supplement vols., Ottův slovník naučný nové doby (incomplete), 1930–1943, volumes 1–28 online)

## Danish

* Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (19 volumes, 1893–1911)

## Dutch

* Winkler Prins Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie (1870–1882; 2nd ed. 1884–1888)

## French

* Dictionnaires généraux, universels, encyclopédiques, et autres… - a bibliography of French encyclopedias up to Larousse
* Encyclopédie Méthodique (Panckoucke), 1782–1832
* Encyclopédie nouvelle (Pierre Leroux and Jean Reynaud), 1839–1840
* Petite Encyclopédie du jeune âge, Larousse (1853)
* Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle by Pierre Larousse (17 volumes 1866–1877), really an encyclopedia despite its name
* La Grande Encyclopédie, general secretaries of the editorial board: Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus and André Berthelot (31 volumes 1886–1902)

## German

* Oekonomische Encyklopädie (General System of State, City, Home and Agriculture), Editor Johann Georg Krünitz (242 Volumes 1773–1858)
* Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste (Ersch–Gruber; 1818–1889, uncompleted)
* Brockhaus (eds. 1–14 by 1900)
* Pierers Universal-Lexikon (1824–1836; 7th ed. 1888–1893)
* Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1839–1855; 5th ed. 1893–1897)
* Herders Konversations-Lexikon (1854–1857; 2nd ed. 1875–1879)

## Hungarian

* Egyetemes magyar encyclopaedia (1859–1876) (→ hu)
* A Pallas Nagy Lexikona (1893–1897)

## Italian

* Piccola Enciclopedia (1853)
* Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (1875)
* Enciclopedia universale illustrata (1887) by Francesco Vallardi

## Japanese

* Gunsho Ruijū (1819)
* Koji Ruien (1896–1914)

## Persian

* Yadgar-i-Bahaduri (1834)

## Polish

* Encyklopedia Powszechna or Encyklopedia Orgelbranda (1st Edition, 28 volumes, 1859–1868)
* Encyyklopedia Kościelna (33 volumes, 1873–1933)

## Romanian

* Enciclopedia română (Editor: Constantin Diaconovich, 3 volumes, 1896–1904)

## Russian

* Plyushar's Encyclopedic Lexicon (17 volumes, 1834–1841)
* Starchevsky's Spravochny entsiklopedichesky slovar (12 volumes, 1847–55)
* Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (86 volumes, 1890–1906)
* Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary (9 volumes, 1891–1903)

## Spanish

* Enciclopedia moderna (1851), Francisco de P. Mellado

## Swedish

* Conversations-lexicon (4 volumes, 1821–1826), a translation of Brockhaus 2nd edition
* Svenskt konversationslexikon (4 volumes, 1845–1851), by Per Gustaf Berg
* Nordisk familjebok (20 volumes, 1876–1899; 2nd ed. 1904–1926)

## Telugu

* Pedda Bala Siksha (1832)

## Turkish

* Kamus-ül-Ulûm ve’l-Maarif Editor Ali Suavi, 1870
* Lûgaat-i Tarihiye ve Coğrafiye Editor Ahmet Rıfat Efendi, 1881 (7 volumes)
* Sicil-i Osmani Editor Mehmet Süreyya Bey, 1890
* Kamus-ül-Alam Editor » : Şemsettin Sami, 1899 (6 volumes)

## Welsh

* Encyclopaedia Cambrensis (1854)

## Specialist encyclopedias

* The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia (1836/1837; 2nd ed. 1849; often cited as Hebert's Encyclopaedia)
* Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures (1852; often cited as Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia)
* Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1842)
* Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870)
* Cyclopaedia of Political Science - Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best American and European Writers] (1881–1899), John J. Lalor
* The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (1897–1908, mainly self-published)
* Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870)
* Dictionary of Political Economy (1894–1899), by Inglis Palgrave
* Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)
* Cyclopedia of Universal History (1880–1884), world history
* Ridpath's Universal History (1895), world history
* Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, François-Joseph Fétis (1835–1844)
* Dictionnaire de chimie pure et appliquée, Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1874–1878)
* Dictionnaire de botanique, Henri Ernest Baillon (1876–1892)
* Nouvelle Biographie Générale, Ferdinand Hoefer (1853–1866)
* Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, "Pauly–Wissowa" (1839–1852, 2nd ed. 1890–1980)
* Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche, Johann Jakob Herzog (1853–1868)
* Handbuch der Organischen Chemie, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1880–1882)
* Lexikon der gesamten Technik, Otto Lueger (1st Edition 1894–1899)
* Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Felix Klein (1898–1933)
* Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse, G. F. W. Hegel (1817)
* Diccionario geográfico, estadístico, histórico, de la isla de Cuba (1863–66)
* Military Encyclopedic Lexicon (15 volumes, 1837–1852)
* Encyclopedia of Military and Marine Sciences (8 volumes, 1883–1897)