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Dobson's Encyclopædia was the first encyclopedia issued in the newly independent United States of America, published by Thomas Dobson from 1789 to 1798. [1] Encyclopædia was the full title of the work, with Dobson's name at the bottom of the title page (see illustration).
Thomas Dobson (1751 near Edinburgh, Scotland – 1823 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a master printer most famous for having published the earliest American version of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the first in the United States to publish a complete Hebrew Bible. Hebrew Bible, published by Thomas Dobson in Philadelphia, 1814
Encyclopaedia Londinensis (1801) English Encyclopaedia (1802) Domestic Encyclopedia (1802) Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia (1802, second edition 1811) Rees's Cyclopædia (1802–1819) Encyclopædia Perthensis (Perth, Scotland, 1803;1816) Encyclopædia Britannica (fourth edition, 1810; ninth edition by 1889) Edinburgh Encyclopædia (1808–1830)
Collier's Encyclopedia; Collier's New Encyclopedia; Collins Concise Encyclopedia; Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland; Columbia Encyclopedia; The Comics We Loved; Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry; Compton's Encyclopedia; Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Consisting of seven volumes quarto, it is noteworthy among America's earliest encyclopedias for having been written in the United States, as opposed to being an American reprint of a British work, as were, for examples, Dobson's Encyclopedia (1789–1798), the Bradford printing (1806–1820) of Rees's Cyclopædia (1802–1820), Samuel A ...
The English Cyclopaedia: A new dictionary of universal knowledge (London, 1854–1862, 4to, 23 vols., 12,117 pages; supplements, 1869–1873, 4 vols., 2858 pages), was published by Charles Knight, based on the Penny Cyclopaedia, of which he had the copyright.
Encyclopedia Judaica: 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and Judaism; Encyclopedia of Associations: also available online as Associations Unlimited; Encyclopedia of Distances: Springer-Verlag 2009; Encyclopedia of Law: 120.000-entry legal encyclopedia with a legal dictionary and legal thesaurus
In both versions, the articles are ordered alphabetically and the volumes contain about 800 pages each. The 1803 edition has A-I in volume 1 and I-Z in volume 2. A new article on Chemistry, 190 pages in length, written by Thomas Thomson of Edinburgh, is meant to completely replace the 261-page article in the main encyclopedia, written by James ...