List of English-language 20th-century general encyclopedias

1900s

1900

  • Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1900)
  • Standard American Book of Knowledge (1900) - a reissue of Standard Cyclopedia (1897)
    • 20th Century Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1901)
    • World's Book of Knowledge (1901)
    • New Century Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1902)
    • American Home Educator and Book of Universal Knowledge (1903)
  • Student's Cycopaedia (1900)
    • Student's Reference Work (1903)
    • New Student's Reference Work (1909)
    • Modern American Encyclopedia (1934)
  • Universal Cyclopaedia (1900) - a reissue of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia (1876)
    • Appleton's New Practical Encyclopedia (1920)
    • New Universal Encyclopedia (1930)
  • Universal Reference Library (1900)
    • Twentieth Century Encyclopedia (1901)
    • Imperial Reference Library (1901)
    • Current Cyclopedia of Reference (1909)

1901

  • American Home Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge (1901)
    • Everitt's Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge (1905)
    • Columbia Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge (1907)
  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1901) - a reissue of the Century Dictionary (1889)
  • Current Encyclopedia (July 1901 - April 1902?) an attempt at a "periodical" reference work. Later merged with Progress to form The World Today.
  • Handy Cyclopedia of Common Things and Biographical Dictionary (1901)
    • Twentieth Century Cyclopedia of Practical Knowledge (1901)
  • Hill's Practical Encyclopedia (1901)
    • School Library Encyclopedia (1901)
    • Hill's Practical Reference Library (1902)
    • New Practical Reference Library (1907)
    • American Educator (1919)
    • Dominion Educator (1919) Canadian ed.
    • New General Encyclopedia (1935) Canadian ed.
  • New Popular Encyclopaedia (1901) reissue of the Popular Encyclopedia (1841)
    • Modern Encyclopaedia of Universal Information (1906)
  • Popular Compedium of Useful Information (1901)
    • Twenith Century Cyclopedia of Useful Information (1901)
    • World Encyclopaedia (1901)
    • Golden Treasury of Useful Information (1902)
    • Worlds Best Information and How to Use It (1902)
    • Home Cyclopedia of Useful Knowledge (1902)
    • Home Educator in Necessary Knowledge (1902)
    • Everybody's Encyclopedia for Everyday Reference (1907)
    • Cyclopedia, Dictionary and Atlas of the World (1909)
  • XXth century Cyclopaedia and Atlas (1901) - a reissue of New Cabinet Cyclopaedia and Treasury of Knowledge (1891)
    • New Twentieth Century Cyclopaedia (1903)
    • New and Complete Universal Self-Pronouncing Dictionary (1905)
    • New Cosmopolitan Encyclopaedia (1906)
    • National Encyclopedia of Reference (1912)

1902

  • American Educator and Library of Knowledge (1902)
  • Anglo-American Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1902) - an unauthorized reprint of portions of the Encyclopedia Brittanica with an unrelated dictionary attached.
    • New American Comprehensive Encyclopedia (1906)
  • Century Book of Facts (1902)
    • Universal Manual of Ready Reference (1904) re-issue
    • New Century Book of Facts (1909) revision
  • Collier's New Encyclopedia (1902)
    • University Encyclopaedia of Twentieth Century Knowledge (1902)
  • Encyclopedia Americana (1902)
  • New International Encyclopedia (1902)
  • Teacher's and Pupil's Cyclopaedia (1902)
    • Encyclopedic Current Reference (1906)
    • New Teacher's and Pupil's Cyclopaedia (1910)
    • Unrivaled Encyclopedia (1911)
    • Practical American Encyclopedia (1911)
    • International Reference Work (1923)
    • Progressive Reference Library (1928)
    • World Scope Encyclopedia (1945)
    • New American Encyclopedia (1963)

1903

  • Crown Encyclopaedia and Gazetter (1903)
    • Continental Encyclopedia (1905)
    • New Century Reference Library (1907)
    • Current Cyclopedia of Reference (1909)
    • Everybody's Encyclopedia (1910)
    • People's Encyclopedia (1914)
    • New World Wide Encyclopedia (1918)
    • World Wide Encyclopedia (1919)
    • New World Encyclopedia (1919)
    • Adair's New Encyclopedia (1923)
    • Time's Encyclopedia and Gazetteer (1929)
    • Twentieth Century Encyclopedia (1930)
    • Worlds Popular Encyclopedia (1937)
  • Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1903) re-issue of the Columbian Encyclopedia (1899)
    • New Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1906)
    • United Editors Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1909)
    • United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia (1911)
  • New People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1903) re-issue of People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1883)
    • World Wide Encyclopedia and Gazetteer (1908)
  • Twentieth Century Household Library (1903)

1904

  • Cassells Cabinet Cyclopedia (1904)
  • Complete Library of Universal Knowledge (1904)
    • New Idea Self-Instructor (1904)
  • Modern Achievement (1904)

1905

  • Everbody's Everday Reference Book for Home and Office (1905)
    • Pannell's Reference Book for Home and Office (1905)
    • Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office (1908) new editions published until 1936

1906

  • Nelson's Encyclopaedia (1906)
    • Harmsworth's Encyclopaedia (1906) British edition
    • Nelson's Perpetual Loose Leaf Encyclopaedia (1916)
    • New Age Encyclopedia (1920)
    • Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia (1920) British edition
      • Doubleday Encyclopedia (1931), American ed. based on above
      • Grolier Encyclopedia (1940)
      • Unified Encyclopedia (1960)
      • Concise Universal Encyclopedia (1930), a condensed British revision of Harmworth's Universal
      • Modern Encyclopedia (1933) British re-issue of the above
      • New Popular Educator (1933) British re-issue of the above
      • Casell's Modern Encyclopedia (1934) British re-issue of the above
      • Encyclopedia of Modern Knowledge (1936) British revision of Harmworth's Universal
      • New Universal Encyclopedia (1951)
    • Nelson's Complete Encyclopedia (1937)
    • Nelson's Encyclopaedia: Unabridged (1940)
    • Nelson's New Loose Leaf Encyclopaedia (1940)
    • Book of Knowledge (1959) British ed.
  • New Standard Encyclopedia (1906)
    • Practical and Home Encyclopedia (1909)
    • Standard American Encyclopedia (1912)
    • International's World Reference Encyclopedia (1942)
    • Universal World Reference Encyclopedia (1945)

1907

  • Everyone's Cyclopedia (1907)
  • Library of Original Sources (1907)

1908

1909

  • La Salle Extension University Encyclopedia (1909)
    • Everybody's Encyclopedia (1909)
    • Webster's Universal Encyclopedia (1909)
    • Modern Universal Encyclopedia (1910)
    • Home and Office Reference Book of Facts (1913)
  • New Complete Condensed Encyclopedia (1909), a re-issue of Chandler's Encyclopedia (1898)
  • Werner Encyclopedia (1909), a reprint of the 9th edition of the Britannica.
    • Anglo-American Encyclopedia (1911)
  • Winston's Encyclopedia (1909)
    • Winston's Cumulative Loose Leaf Encyclopedia (1912)
    • Encyclopedia Library (1942)
    • American International Encyclopedia (1950)

1910s

1910

  • Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
    • Standard Reference Work (1912)
    • National Encyclopedia for the Home, School and Library (1923)
    • New Standard Encyclopedia (1930)
    • Consolidated Encyclopedia (1939) Canadian ed.
  • Appleton's New Practical Encyclopedia (1910)
    • New Univeral Encyclopedia (1930)
  • Routledge's Everyman's Encyclopedia (1910)

1911

  • Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing (1911)
  • Volume Library (1911)
    • Cowles Comprehensive Encyclopedia - Volume Library (1963)

1912

  • Modern Encyclopedia (1912)
  • Standard Illustrated Book of Facts (1912)

1913

1914

  • Human Interest Library (1914)
    • New Human Interest Library (1928)
  • Our Wonder World (1914)
    • New Wonder World (1932)
    • New Wonder World Encyclopedia (1959)
    • New Wonder World Cultural Library (1962)
    • Cultural Library (1964)
  • Stokes Complete One Volume Encyclopedia (1914)

1915

  • The Knowledge Book (1915)
    • The Knowledge Library (1918)
    • New Knowledge Library (1919)

1916

1917

1919

  • Bufton's Universal Cyclopedia (1919)
    • Library of Knowledge (1929)

1920s

1920

  • New Universal Handbook of Necessary Information (1920)
    • Winston's Universal Reference Library (1930)
  • Waverley New Era Encyclopedia (1920)
    • Waverley Encyclopedia of General Information (1930)

1921

  • New Gresham Encyclopedia (1921-4)
    • Compact Encyclopedia (1927) a 6 vol. abridgement
    • Concise Encyclopedia (1933) a revision of both of the above. Issued in Great Britain as the British Encyclopedia
    • Collins Gem Encyclopedia (1979)

1922

  • Compton's Encyclopedia (1922) issued in Great Britain as the Book of Knowledge
    • Wonderland of Knowledge (1933) British imprint

1924

1925

  • Concise Pocket Encyclopedia (1925)

1927

  • Universal Knowledge (1927)

1928

  • I See All (1928)
  • New Universities Encyclopedia (1928)

1929

1930s

1930

  • American Home Library (1930)

1931

1932

  • National Encyclopedia (1932)
  • Newnes Pictorial Encyclopedia (1932)
  • New Standard Encyclopedia and World Atlas (1932)
    • Wonder World of Knowledge (1935)
    • Wonder World Encyclopedia (1936)
    • Standard Encyclopaedia (1937)
    • Modern Standard Encyclopedia (1938)
    • New Wonder World Encyclopedia (1964)

1933

  • Modern Encyclopaedia (1933) 1 vol.
    • Concise Encyclopaedia (1937) 8 vols.
    • Modern Concise Encyclopaedia (1940) 12 vols.
    • New Modern Encyclopaedia (1943) 1 vol.
  • Modern Encyclopedia for Children (1933)
    • Wonder Encyclopedia for Children (1933)
    • Golden Encyclopedia for Children (1934)
    • Clear Type Encyclopedia (1935)
    • Laural and Gold Encyclopedia (1935)
    • Modern Encyclopedia for Young People (1935)
    • Modern Illustrated Encyclopedia (1940)
  • Newes Everything Within (1933)
    • Newnes Golden Treasury (1933)
    • Children's Everything Within (1939)
  • New Illustrated Universal Reference Book (1933)
  • Richards Cyclopedia (1933)
    • Richard's Topical Cyclopedia (1939)

1934

  • Circle of Knowledge (1934)
  • Daily Express Encyclopedia (1934)
  • Routledge's Universal Encyclopedia (1934) British ed.
    • Facts; the New Concise Encyclopedia (1934) American ed.
    • New Concise Pictorial Encyclopedia (1938)
    • Comprehensive Pictorial Encyclopedia (1942)
    • World Home Reference Encyclopedia (1951)
  • Practical Knowledge for All (1934)

1935

1936

  • Children's Home Educator and Treasury of Knowledge (1936)
    • Waverley Encyclopedia (1953)
  • Everyday Knowledge (1936)
  • Hutchinson's Pictorial Encyclopedia (1936)
    • Hutchinson's Twentieth Century Encyclopedia (1948)
    • Hutchinson's New Twentieth Century Encyclopedia (1965)
    • New Hutchinson's Twentieth Century Encyclopedia (1977)
  • International Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1936)

1937

1938

  • Book of General Knowledge (1938)
    • Teach Yourself Concise Encyclopedia of General Knowledge (1956)
  • Universal Knowledge A - Z (1938)
    • Great Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1948)

1940s

1940

  • Modern Library of Knowledge (1940)
  • Webster's Columbia Encyclopedic Dictionary (1940)
    • Webster's Comprehensive Encyclopedic Dictionary (1941)
    • Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary (1941)
    • Library of Essential Information (1942)
    • American People's Encyclopedia (1946)
    • Consolidated Webster Comprehensive Encyclopedic Dictionary (1954)
    • Consolidated Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary (1954)

1943

  • International American Encyclopedia (1943)

1944

  • Encyclopedia for Boys and Girls (1944)
    • Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia of General Knowledge (1957)

1946

  • Golden Encyclopedia (1946)
    • New Golden Encyclopedia (1963)
  • Handy Encylopedia of Useful Information (1946)
    • Austin's New Encyclopedia of Useable Information (1948)
    • Everyday Reference Library (1951)

1947

1948

  • American People's Encyclopedia (1948)
  • Children's Pictorial Encyclopedia (1948)
  • Oxford Junior Encyclopedia (1948)
    • American Oxford Encyclopedia for Home and School (1964)
  • World of the Children (1948)

1949

1950s

1953

  • Odham's Encyclopedia (1953)
    • Modern Encyclopedia (1961)

1954

  • Basic Everyday Encyclopedia (1954)
  • Illustrated Encyclopedia of Knowledge (1954)
    • Illustrated Home Library Encyclopedia (1955)
    • Illustrated World Encyclopedia (1958)
  • New Pictorial Encyclopedia of the World (1954)
    • Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1956)
    • Little & Ives Illustrated Ready Reference Encyclopedia (1961)
  • New Wonder Book Cyclopedia of World Knowledge (1954)

1955

  • New Masters Pictorial Encyclopedia (1955)
  • Our Wonderful World (1955)

1956

  • Wonder Book Encyclopedia (1956)
    • Junior Pictorial Encyclopedia (1959)
    • Encyclopedia of Modern Knowledge (1965)
  • Young Children's Encyclopedia (1956)

1957

  • Children's Guide to Knowledge (1957) American version
  • Modern Children's Library of Knowledge (1957)
  • Modern University Encyclopedia (1957)
    • New Age Encyclopedia, World Atlas and Sports Supplement (1957)
  • Pearson's Everything Within (1957)
  • Pictorial Encyclopedia (1957)

1959

1960s

1960

  • Junior World Encyclopedia (1960)
    • Harver Junior World Encyclopedia (1972)
  • Newnes Popular Encyclopedia (1960)
    • Newnes Family Encyclopedia (1966)

1961

  • Black's Children Encyclopedia (1961)
  • Golden Home and High School Encyclopedia (1961)
  • Golden Treasury of Knowledge (1961)
  • Junior Pears Encyclopedia (1961)
  • Knowledge: the weekly colored encyclopedia (1961 - 1965)
    • New Knowledge (1965)
  • Odham's Encyclopedia for Children (1961)
    • Odham's Wonder World of Knowledge (1961)

1963

  • Encyclopedia International (1963-4)
    • Grolier Universal Encyclopedia (1965)

1964

  • Child's First Encyclopedia (1964)
  • Complete Reference Handbook (1964)
    • Quick Reference Encyclopedia (1976)
    • Quick Reference Handbook of Basic Knowledge (1979)

1965

  • Catholic Encyclopedia for School and Home (1965)
  • The Penguin Encyclopedia (1965)

1966

1967

1968

  • Longmans English larousse (1968)

1970s

1971

  • Compton's Young Children's Precyclopedia (1971)
    • Comton's Precyclopedia (1973)
  • Talking Cassette Encyclopedia (1971)
    • New Talking Cassette Encyclopedia (1984)

1972

  • Young Student's Encyclopedia (1972)

1973

  • Cadillac Modern Encyclopedia (1973)
    • Kussmaul Encyclopedia (1981)
  • Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge (1973)
  • Harver World Encyclopedia (1973)

1976

1977

1978

  • Junior Encyclopedia of General Knowledge (1978)

1979

  • Knowledge Encyclopedia (1979)
  • Purnell's Pictorial Encyclopedia (1979)

1980s

1980

1981

  • Macmillan Encyclopedia (1981)
    • New Universal Family Encyclopedia (1985)
  • New Knowledge Library (1981)

1985

  • Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia (1985)

1990s

1991

  • American Spectrum Encyclopedia (1991)

1993

Brittanica

Other English language Britannica publications

  • Historian's History of the World (1902)
  • The reader's guide to the Encyclopædia britannica; a handbook containing sixty-six courses of systematic study or occasional reading. (1913)
  • Book of the Year (1913, 1938-)
  • The Britannica book of the war (1914)
  • Britannica Home University (1920)
  • These eventful years; the twentieth century in the making, as told by many of its makers; being the dramatic story of all that has happened throughout the world during the most momentous period in all history, (1924)
  • Weedon's Modern Encyclopedia (1931) a non-Britannica publication that was bought out and repackaged by Britannica as
    • Britannica Junior (1934)
  • Great Books of the Western World (1952)
  • Children's Britannica (1960) aimed at ages seven to 14.
  • Young Children's Encyclopaedia (1961) for children just learning to read
  • Gateway to the Great Books (1963)
  • My First Britannica (1974) aimed at children ages six to 12
  • Britannica Discovery Library (1974) for children aged three to six

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