Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Here are entered comprehensive reference works in the English language consisting of explanatory articles arranged alphabetically or topically and not limited to a specific topic. Works of this type in other languages are entered under headings of the type Encyclopedias and dictionaries, [language], e.g. Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French; Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Spanish. Works about encyclopedias and dictionaries in general, and works about English-language encyclopedias and dictionaries, are entered under Encyclopedias and dictionaries with further subdivision, e.g. Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism. Works consisting of comprehensive alphabetical lists of the words of a specific language, usually with definitions, are entered under the heading for the language with subdivision Dictionaries, e.g. English language -- Dictionaries. Works about dictionaries of a specific language are entered under the heading for the language with subdivision Lexicography, e.g. English language -- Lexicography.

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• Reference books

• Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1600
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism
• Classical dictionaries
• Electronic encyclopedias
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Italian
• Lexicography
• Questions and answers

• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries, English
• Knowledge, Books of
• Subject dictionaries
• Cyclopedias
• Books of knowledge

• Britannica Concise (electronic edition, 2002) (HTML at britannica.com)
• Columbia Encyclopedia (6th edition, 2000; with additional resources) (HTML at allrefer.com)
• Cyclopaedia, or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (original 2-volume edition, 1728, plus 1753 supplements), by Ephraim Chambers (searchable page images at Wisconsin)
• Encyclopedia Britannica (eleventh edition, 1911) (HTML at 1911encyclopedia.org)
• Scammell's Universal Treasure-House of Useful Knowledge: An Encyclopedia of Valuable Receipts in the Principal Arts of Life (Salt Lake City: H. A. Hess, 1889), ed. by Henry Bucklin Scammell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Standard Dictionary of Facts (Buffalo, NY: Frontier Press Company, 1922) (PDF at djm.cc; 200 MB)

• The Journey of a Book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things (2007), by Elizabeth Keen (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The Evolution of English Lexicography, by James Augustus Henry Murray (page images at oed.com)
• On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries (second edition, 1860), by Richard Chenevix Trench (page images at oed.com)

• Bibliotheca Classica: or, A Classical Dictionary (4th edition; London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell..., 1801), by John Lemprière (page images at Google)
• A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (London: John Murray, 1890), ed. by William Smith, William Wayte, and G. E. Marindin (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It (San Francisco: No Starch Press, c2008), by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates (PDF at dropbox.com)
• Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia (electronic edition, collaboratively updated) (HTML at wikipedia.org)

• Il Libro per Tutti: Repertorio di Cognizioni Utili Nelle Diverse Occorrenze Della Vita Domestica (in Italian; Florence: G. Barbèra, 1891), ed. by Ferruccio Rizzatti
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Five Papers on WordNet (revised 1993), ed. by George A. Miller (PDF at Princeton)
• Making Dictionaries: A Guide to Lexicography and the Multi-Dictionary Formatter (2000 edition, with online updates), by David F. Coward and Charles E. Grimes (PDF with commentary at sil.org)

• The British Dominions in North America (London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831), by Joseph Bouchette
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Imperial Gazetteer of India (24 volumes, index volume omitted), by William Wilson Hunter, ed. by James Sutherland Cotton, Richard Burn, and William Stevenson Meyer (searchable page images at Chicago)

• A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (2 volumes; London: S. Lewis and Co., 1837), by Samuel Lewis (HTML at booksulster.com)

• A Guide to Kentucky Place Names (electronic edition), by Kentucky Geological Survey (searchable HTML at uky.edu)

• A Dictionary of London (1918), ed. by Henry Andrade Harben (HTML at British History Online)

• Gazetteer of the State of Michigan, by John T. Blois (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1863/4 (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Gazetteer of the St. Joseph Valley, Michigan and Indiana, by Timothy Gilman Turner (page images at MOA)

• The Columbia Gazetteer of North America (New York: Columbia University Press, c2009), ed. by Saul B. Cohen (HTML at allrefer.com)

• A New Gazetteer of the United States of America (1833), by William Darby and Theodore Dwight (page images in Germany)

• Ohio State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1860-61, by George W. Hawes (page images at MOA)

• Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia, by Richard Edwards (page images at MOA)

• Wisconsin Gazetteer (1853) (page images at MOA)

• The Evolution of English Lexicography, by James Augustus Henry Murray (page images at oed.com)

• On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries (second edition, 1860), by Richard Chenevix Trench (page images at oed.com)

• Notes and Queries (partial serial archives)

• Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by F. Allan Hanson (HTML at UC Press)

• Bridging the Gap: The Transfer Class (Harvard-Newton bulletin #3; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University , 1915), by Frank Watson Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychological Service for School Problems (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., c1930), by Gertrude Howell Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Educational Matchmaking: Academic and Vocational Tracking in Comprehensive High Schools, by Jeannie Oakes, Molly Selvin, Lynn A. Karoly, and Gretchen Gulton (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools, by National Research Council Center for Education (page images at NAP)

• Educational Matchmaking: Academic and Vocational Tracking in Comprehensive High Schools, by Jeannie Oakes, Molly Selvin, Lynn A. Karoly, and Gretchen Gulton (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by F. Allan Hanson (HTML at UC Press)

• How To Pass Every Time, by Mike Evans (HTML with commentary at HowTo)

• Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by F. Allan Hanson (HTML at UC Press)

• The Validity of Gains in Scores on the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS), by Daniel M Koetz and Sheila I. Barron (PDF files at rand.org)

• Language Testing Reconsidered (c2007), ed. by Janna D. Fox, Marjorie Bingham Wesche, Doreen Bayliss, Liying Cheng, Carolyn E. Turner, and Christine Doe (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at djm.cc
• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Maze (electronic edition), by Christopher Manson (illustrated HTML at obs-us.com)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)

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