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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, also referred to as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia and the Original Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States and designed to serve the Roman Catholic Church. The first volume appeared in March 1907 and the last three volumes appeared in 1912, followed by a master index volume in 1914 and later supplementary volumes. It was designed "to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine".
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.
The English Cyclopaedia: A new dictionary of universal knowledge, was published by Charles Knight, based on the Penny Cyclopaedia, of which he had the copyright. He was assisted by Alexander Ramsay and James Thorne. It was sometimes popularly referred to as "Knights Encyclopedia".
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 Book of Knowledge was an encyclopedia aimed at juveniles first published in 1912, by the Grolier Society.
Everyman's Encyclopaedia is an encyclopedia published by Joseph Dent from 1913 as part of the Everyman's Library.
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.
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 New Standard Encyclopedia was published from 1906 to at least the mid-1960s under a variety of titles and by different publishers.
The New Standard Encyclopedia was the most common name for an encyclopedia that ran from 1910 to the mid-1960s.
Source Book was the most common name for a family of encyclopedias published in the 1910s through 1936.
The Human Interest Library was a children's encyclopedia published from the 1910s to at least the mid-1960s.
Our Wonder World was a children's encyclopedia published from the 1910s to the mid 1960s, under a variety of names.
The Winston Universal Reference Library was a single-volume general reference work that was published from 1920 to the mid 1950s.
Collins Concise Encyclopedia was the most common name for an encyclopedia that was published in various formats and names from 1921 until at least the early 1990s.
