The New International Encyclopedia

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The New International Encyclopedia was an American encyclopedia first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead & Co. It descended from the International Cyclopaedia (1884) and was updated in 1906, 1914 and 1926.

History

The New International Encyclopedia was the successor of the International Cyclopaedia (1884). Initially, The International Cyclopaedia was largely a reprint of Alden's Library of Universal Knowledge, which itself was a reprint of the British Chambers's Encyclopaedia . The title was changed to The New International Encyclopedia in 1902, with editors Harry Thurston Peck, Daniel Coit Gilman and Frank Moore Colby.^[1]

The encyclopedia was popular and reprints were made in 1904, 1905, 1907 (corrected and expanded to 20 volumes), 1909 and 1911. The 2nd edition appeared from 1914 to 1917 in 24 volumes. With Peck and Gilman deceased, Colby was joined by a new editor, Talcott Williams.^[1] This edition was set up from new type and thoroughly revised. It was very strong in biography.^[2]

A third edition was published in 1923, however this was mostly a reprint with the addition of a history of the First World War in volume 24, which had previously been a reading and study guide. A two-volume supplement was published in 1925 and was incorporated into the 1927 reprint, which had 25 volumes. There was a further two-volume supplement in 1930 along with another reprint.^[3]

The final edition, in 1935, was published by Funk & Wagnalls. This edition included another updated supplement, authored by Herbert Treadwell Wade. Some material from The New International would be incorporated into future books published by Funk and Wagnalls such as Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopaedia .^[3]

The 1926 material was printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Yale University Press. Boston Bookbinding Company of Cambridge produced the covers. Thirteen books enclosing 23 volumes comprise the encyclopedia, which includes a supplement after Volume 23. Each book contains around 1600 pages.^[4]

Like other encyclopedias of the time, The New International had a yearly supplement, The New International Yearbook, beginning in 1908. Like the encyclopedia itself, this publication was sold to Funk and Wagnalls in 1931. It was edited by Frank Moore Colby until his death in 1925, and then by Wade. In 1937, Frank Horace Vizetelly became editor.^[3] The yearbook outlasted the parent encyclopedia, running to 1966.^[5]

More than 500 men and women submitted and composed the information contained in The New International Encyclopedia.

Volumes

Gilman, Daniel Coit; Peck, Harry Thurston; Colby, Frank Moore, eds. (1905). *The New International Encyclopædia*. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.
vol	Edition	Internet Archive	Wikisource (incomplete)	Year	From	–	To	Notes
1	1st	IA 1	WS 1	1905	A	–	Aristogoras
2	1st	IA 2	WS 2	1905	Aristarchus	–	Bessières
3	1st	IA 3	WS 3	1905	Bessus	–	Cairns
4	1st	IA 4	WS 4	1905	Cairo	–	Classification of Ships
5	1st	IA 5	WS 5	1905	Classis	–	Da Vinci
6	1st	IA 6	WS 6	1905	Davioud	–	Ellery
7	1st	IA 7	WS 7	1905	Ellesmere	–	Fontanel
8	1st	Not available	WS 8	1903	Fontanes	–	Goethe	Alternatives Google Books: GB 8 (this volume is not universally accessible). 1903 edition, from the Ontario Council of University Libraries digitized in 2009, in the Internet Archive: IA 7 (1903) Ethics – Fuller, Maitland IA 8 (1903) Fullers Earth – Halithrum
9	1st	IA 9	WS 9	1905	Goethite	–	Heritable Jurisdictions
10	1st	IA 10	WS 10	1905	Herjulfson	–	Ishpeming
11	1st	IA 11	WS 11	1905	Ishtar	–	Latitudinarians
12	1st	IA 12	WS 12	1905	Latium	–	Manna
13	1st	IA 13	WS 13	1905	Manna-Croup	–	Morganatic Marriage
14	1st	IA 14	WS 14	1905	Morgan City	–	Omul
15	1st	IA 15	WS 15	1905	Ona	–	Pickering	The Internet Archive edition is missing pp. 6-7, but see the 1906 volume for the first edition at Google Books, which appears to be about the same thing, and does have these pages.
16	1st	IA 16	WS 16	1905	Pickersgill	–	Reid
17	1st	IA 17	WS 17	1905	Reifferscheid	–	Servian Wall
18	1st	IA 18	WS 18	1905	Service-berry	–	Tagus
19	1st	IA 19	WS 19	1905	Taharka	–	Vampire
20	1st	IA 20	WS 20	1905	Van	–	Zyrians

2nd ed. at Princeton (1914-16; complete) on the HathiTrust website

*New International Encyclopedia* (incomplete)
Volume	Edition	Year	copyright last	From	–	To
Volume 3	2nd	1928	[1924]	Bazaine	–	Brock
Volume 4	2nd	1928	[1924]	Brockelmann	–	Chaeremon
Volume 5	2nd	1914		Chæronia	–	Consuelo
Volume 6	2nd	1928		Consul	–	Didymograptus
Volume 8	2nd		[1922]	Enteritis	–	Foraker
Volume 10	2nd	1928	[1922]	Glacial	–	Havre de Grace
Volume 12	2nd	1915		Imaginary	–	Jouy
Volume 13	2nd	1915	[1915]	Jovanovich	–	Leprohon
Volume 17	2nd	1916		Newfoundland	–	Panjab
Volume 18	2nd	1916		Panjabi	–	Poliziano
Volume 19	2nd	1916	[1916]	Polk	–	Rigging
Volume 20	2nd	1916	[1916]	Riggs	–	Shilluck
Volume 21	2nd	1916		Shiloh	–	Tarsus
Volume 22	2nd	1916		Tartaglia	–	Valiant
Volume 24	Sup	1930	1930	Abbe	–	Lyons
Volume 25	Sup	1930	[1930]	Municipal	–	Zweig

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References

Citations

1 2 Walsh 1968, p. 120.
↑ The Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 10. 1988. p. 333.
1 2 3 Walsh 1968, p. 121.
↑ Graham, B. (1928). Bookman's Manual. p. 28.
↑ Colby, Frank Moore, ed. (1908). The New International Yearbook: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the Year. Dodd, Mead & Co. OCLC 183333553.

Sources

Walsh, S. P. (1968). Anglo-American general encyclopedias: a historical bibliography, 1703–1967. New York, NY: Bowker. OCLC 577541.

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[FOOTNOTEWalsh1968120-1] 1 2 Walsh 1968, p. 120.

[2] The Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 10. 1988. p. 333.

[FOOTNOTEWalsh1968121-3] 1 2 3 Walsh 1968, p. 121.

[4] Graham, B. (1928). Bookman's Manual. p. 28.

[5] Colby, Frank Moore, ed. (1908). The New International Yearbook: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the Year. Dodd, Mead & Co. OCLC 183333553.

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