List of 19th-century encyclopedias

In English

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)

In Arabic

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

In 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)

In Danish

• Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (19 volumes, 1893–1911)

In Dutch

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

In 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)

In 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)

In Hungarian

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

In Italian

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

In Japanese

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

In Persian

• Yadgar-i-Bahaduri (1834)

In Polish

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

In Romanian

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

In 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)

In Spanish

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

In 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)

In Telugu

• Pedda Bala Siksha (1832)

In 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)

In 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)

See also

• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica