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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
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 first American encyclopedia, Dobson's Encyclopædia, was based almost entirely on the 3rd edition of the Britannica and was published at nearly the same time (1788–1798), together with an analogous supplement (1803), by Scottish printer Thomas Dobson. Dobson, an Edinburgh native and master printer who learned his craft in that city while ...
Thomas Dobson (printer) (1751–1823), master printer most famous for having published the earliest American version of the Encyclopædia Britannica; Thomas Dobson (rugby) (1872–1902), rugby union footballer who played for Bradford F.C. and England; Thomas Dobson (politician) (1853–1935), British Member of Parliament for Plymouth, 1906–1910
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Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, 1240; the most widely read and quoted encyclopedia in the late-medieval period. Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, 1256. Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Majus, 1260, the most ambitious encyclopedia in the late-medieval period, with over 3 million words
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