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List of 20th-century general encyclopedias in English

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1900s

1900

1901

1902

1903

1904

1905

1906

1907

1908

1909

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1910s

1910

1911

1912

1913

1914

1916

1917

1919

  • Bufton's Universal Cyclopedia (1919)
    • Library of Knowledge (1929)
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1920s

1920

1921

1922

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

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

1947

1948

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

1949

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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

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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)
  • 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

  • Purnell's New English Encyclopedia (1966)
    • New Caxton Encyclopedia (1966)

1967

1968

  • Longmans English Larousse (1968)
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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)
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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

Britannica

Other English language Britannica publications

  • The Historians' 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)
  • Britannica Book of the Year (1913, 1938-)
  • The Britannica book of the war (1914)
  • Britannica Home University (1920)
  • 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.
  • Gateway to the Great Books (1963)
  • Young Children's Encyclopaedia (1970) for children just learning to read
  • 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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