The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time. This edition of the encyclopedia, containing 40,000 entries, is now in the public domain, and many of its articles have been used as a basis for articles in Wikipedia. However, the outdated nature of some of its content makes its use as a source for modern scholarship problematic. Some articles have special value and interest to modern scholars as cultural artifacts of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by Scholastic.
Merriam-Webster, Inc., is an American company that publishes reference books and is especially known for its dictionaries.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia was founded in 1859 by William and Robert Chambers of Edinburgh and became one of the most important English language encyclopaedias of the 19th and 20th centuries, developing a reputation for accuracy and scholarliness that was reflected in other works produced by the Chambers publishing company. The encyclopaedia is no longer produced. A selection of illustrations and woodblocks used to produce the first two editions of the encyclopaedia can be seen on a digital resource hosted on the National Museums Scotland website.
Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-Index is a home and school encyclopedia first published in 1922 as Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia. The word "Pictured" was removed from the title with the 1968 edition. The encyclopedia is now advertised as Compton's by Britannica.
The New International Encyclopedia was an American encyclopedia first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company. It descended from the International Cyclopaedia (1884) and was updated in 1906, 1914 and 1926.
The Penny Cyclopædia published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was a multi-volume encyclopedia edited by George Long and published by Charles Knight alongside the Penny Magazine. Twenty-seven volumes and three supplements were published from 1833 to 1843.
The World Publishing Company was an American publishing company founded by Alfred H. Cahen. Originally headquartered in Cleveland, the company later added an office in New York City. The company published genre fiction, trade paperbacks, children's literature, nonfiction books, textbooks, Bibles, and dictionaries, primarily from 1940 to 1980. Authors published by World Publishing Company include Ruth Nanda Anshen, Michael Crichton, Simone de Beauvoir, Robert Ludlum, Sam Moskowitz, Ayn Rand, Rex Stout, Gay Talese, and Lin Yutang. The company's Cleveland headquarters were located in the Caxton Building.
The 12-volume Universal Cyclopaedia was edited by Charles Kendall Adams, and was published by D. Appleton & Company in 1900. The name was changed to Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas in 1902, with editor.
The Popular Encyclopedia or Conversations Lexicon was a British encyclopedia that was published from 1837 to 1893 by Blackie and Son, of Glasgow. It was originally a reprint of Francis Lieber's Encyclopedia Americana, itself based on the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie.
The Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art was a single-volume reference work published in the mid-19th century by Longman's in the United Kingdom and by Harper Bros. in the United States. At the time it was considered a highly successful compendium of general but scholarly information. It was part of a trend toward cheaper, smaller reference works targeted at the middle and working classes.
American Educator was the most common name for an encyclopedia set that was published in the United States from 1901 to the 1970s.
Colliers New Encyclopedia was published by P. F. Collier & Son from 1902 to 1929. It is distinct from the more famous Collier's Encyclopedia that began to be published in 1949, despite the fact that they had the same publisher and similar names. First published in 1902 in 16 volumes, the set was reprinted often, though not completely revised until 1921. Further editions were published in 1926, 1928 and 1929. In lieu of revision, between 1905 and 1921 the set was a supplemented by the Colliers's Self Indexing Annual. However, this was stopped in 1921 and an "yearly revision service" began. This was also around the time that the Encyclopedia gained the subtitle "a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work".
The Teacher's and Pupil's Cyclopaedia was the original name of an encyclopedia set that was published in the United States in different forms for nearly 60 years.
The Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office was a periodically published compendium of general and practical information published in the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1936.
The New Standard Encyclopedia was published from 1906 to at least the mid-1960s under a variety of titles and by different publishers.
The La Salle Extension University Encyclopedia was a single volume general encyclopedia published in 1909. It was published simultaneously as Everybody's Encyclopedia and Webster's Universal Encyclopedia. All three were identical in format - quarto volumes with 1367 pages, edited by Charles Higgins and published by De Bower-Chapline of Chicago.
Source Book was the most common name for a family of encyclopedias published in the 1910s through 1936.
The Volume Library was a one volume general reference work that was published from 1911 to 1985. It remained as a two or three volume reference work until at least 2004.
The Winston Universal Reference Library was a single-volume general reference work that was published from 1920 to the mid 1950s.
