📚 Encyclopedias

All knowledge in alphabetic order: Diderot’s dangerous project to the last printed set sold door to door.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject encyclopedias in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ..	Francis Lieber	1829	44
	Encyclopaedia Iranica	Ehsan Yarshater	1983	29
	Supercook	Marye Cameron-Smith	1985	21
	An encyclopædia of occultism	Lewis Spence	1920	19
	The encyclopedia of furniture	Joseph Aronson	1938	12
	Encyclopedia of electronic circuits	Rudolf F. Graf	1985	12
	World War II	Grolier Educational	2006	12
	Women in world history	Anne Commire	1999	11
	Diccionario De La Musica Española E Hispanoamericana / Spanish And Hispnaicamerican Music Dictionary	Emilio Casares (DRT) Rodicio	1999	10
	Cunningham's Encyclopedia of magical herbs	Scott Cunningham	1985	8
	Concise Encyclopedia of the Human Body, the	David Burnie	1995	7
	Miller's antiques encyclopedia	Judith Miller	1998	7
	Encyclopedia of positive psychology	Shane J. Lopez	2009	7
	An ABC of witchcraft past & present	Doreen Valiente	1973	6
	The encyclopedia of animated cartoons	Jeff Lenburg	1991	6
	Kingfisher illustrated animal encyclopedia	David Burnie	2000	6
	The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits	Rosemary Guiley	1992	5
	Phenomenon	Sylvia Browne	2005	5
	The illustrated signs & symbols sourcebook	Adele Nozedar	2010	5
	Encyclopaedia of medical astrology	H. L. Cornell	1972	4
	The encyclopedia of witchcraft & magic	Venetia Newall	1974	4
	An Encyclopedia of Fairies	Katharine Mary Briggs	1976	4
	The house plant expert	D. G. Hessayon	1980	4
	Cunningham's encyclopedia of crystal, gem & metal magic	Scott Cunningham	1988	4
	Harper's encyclopedia of mystical & paranormal experience	Rosemary Guiley	1991	4
	The Children's Bible Encyclopedia	Mark Water	1995	4
	The Werewolf Book	Brad Steiger	1999	4
	The Spirit Book	Raymond Buckland	2005	4
	The encyclopedia of embroidery techniques	Pauline Brown	1994	3
	Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology	J. Gordon Melton	1996	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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