List of 19th-century encyclopedias

• Universal Instructor (1880)
• Little Cyclopaedia of Common Things (1882)
• People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1883)
  • New People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge 1889 re-issue (Three of four vols. in link)
• Cassell's Concise Cyclopaedia (1883)
  • Cassell's Cabinet Encyclopedia (1904)
• Peale's Popular Educator and Cyclopedia (1883)
  • Home Library of Useful Knowledge 1886 re-issue
• Library of National Information and Popular Knowledge Vols 3-4, Vols 5-6 (1884)
• Home Teacher (1886)
• Cassell's Miniature Cyclopaedia (1888)
• Pocket Encyclopaedia (1888)
• Century Dictionary (1889)
  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    (1901)

1890s

• Ready Reference (1890)
• World Wide Encyclopedia and Gazetteer (1890)
• Cassell's Storehouse of General Information (1891)
  • Cassell's Encyclopedia of General Information (1908)
• The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge (1891)
• Ogilvie's Encyclopedia of Useful Information (1891)
• Chamber's Condensed Encyclopedia (1895)
• Harper's Book of Facts
  (1895)
• Pears Cyclopaedia
  (1897), originally named Pears' Shilling Cyclopaedia
• The People's Select Cyclopedia (1897), by Charles Nisbett
• Standard Cyclopaedia (1897)
  • X-Rays of Intellectual Light (1899)
  • Standard American Book of Knowledge (1900)
  • World's Book of Knowledge (1901)
  • 20th Century Book of Universal Knowledge (1901)
  • American Educator and Library of Knowledge (1902)
  • New Century Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1902)
  • American Home Educator and Book of Universal Knowledge (1903)
  • Standard Library of Knowledge (1904)
• Chandler's Encyclopedia (1898)
  • New Complete Condensed Encyclopedia (1909)
• Universal Cyclopaedia and Dictionary edited by Charles Morris (1898)
  • International Library of Reference (1899)
  • Universal Reference Library (1900)
  • Twentieth Century Encyclopedia link goes to vols. 2, 5 and 6 (1901)
  • Imperial Reference Library (1901)
• Columbian Cyclopaedia (1899)
  • Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1903)
  • New Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1906)
  • United Editors Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1909)
  • United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia (1911)
• Werner's Universal Encyclopedia (1899)

Britannica

• Supplement to the third edition (1801, 1803)
• Fourth edition (1810)
• Fifth edition (1817)
• Sixth edition (1823)
• Supplement to the fifth edition, (later known as the supplement to the fourth, fifth and sixth editions) (1824)
• Seventh edition (1842)
• Eighth edition (1860)
• Ninth edition (1889)

Arabic

• Al-Muhit al Muhit ("The ocean of oceans"), Butrus al-Bustani (1867)

Czech

• Riegrův slovník naučný (11 volumes, 1860–1874; supplement vol. 1890. Online)
• Stručný všeobecný slovník věcný (9 volumes, 1874–1885, online)
• Příruční slovník všeobecných vědomostí (2 volumes, 1882–1887, editor Josef Rank, vol 1 online)
• Otto's encyclopedia (Ottův slovník naučný, 28 vols., 1888–1909, 12 supplement vols., Ottův slovník naučný nové doby (incomplete), 1930–1943, volumes 1–28 online
  )

• Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (19 volumes, 1893–1911)

Dutch

• Winkler Prins Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie
  (1870–1882; 2nd ed. 1884–1888)

French

• Dictionnaires généraux, universels, encyclopédiques, et autres… - a bibliography of French encyclopedias up to Larousse
• Encyclopédie Méthodique (Panckoucke), 1782–1832
• Encyclopédie nouvelle (Pierre Leroux and Jean Reynaud), 1839–1840
• Petite Encyclopédie du jeune âge, Larousse (1853)
• Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle by Pierre Larousse (17 volumes 1866–1877), really an encyclopedia despite its name
• La Grande Encyclopédie, general secretaries of the editorial board: Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus and André Berthelot (31 volumes 1886–1902)

German

• Oekonomische Encyklopädie (General System of State, City, Home and Agriculture), Editor Johann Georg Krünitz
  (242 Volumes 1773–1858)
• Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste (Ersch–Gruber; 1818–1889, uncompleted)
• Brockhaus
  (eds. 1–14 by 1900)
• Pierers Universal-Lexikon
  (1824–1836; 7th ed. 1888–1893)
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1839–1855; 5th ed. 1893–1897)
• Herders Konversations-Lexikon (1854–1857; 2nd ed. 1875–1879)

Hungarian

• Egyetemes magyar encyclopaedia (1859–1876) (→ hu)
• A Pallas Nagy Lexikona (1893–1897)

Italian

• Piccola Enciclopedia (1853)
• Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana (1875)
• Enciclopedia universale illustrata (1887) by Francesco Vallardi

Japanese

• Gunsho Ruijū (1819)
• Koji Ruien (1896–1914)

Persian

• Yadgar-i-Bahaduri (1834)

Polish

• Encyklopedia Powszechna or Encyklopedia Orgelbranda (1st Edition, 28 volumes, 1859–1868)
• Encyyklopedia Kościelna (33 volumes, 1873–1933)

Romanian

• Enciclopedia română (Editor: Constantin Diaconovich, 3 volumes, 1896–1904)

Russian

• Plyushar's Encyclopedic Lexicon (17 volumes, 1834–1841)
• Starchevsky's Spravochny entsiklopedichesky slovar (12 volumes, 1847–55)
• Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (86 volumes, 1890–1906)
• Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary (9 volumes, 1891–1903)

Spanish

• Francisco de P. Mellado