The New International Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead & Co. It descended from the International Cyclopaedia (1884) and was updated in 1906, 1914 and 1926.
History
The New International Encyclopedia was the successor of the International Cyclopaedia (1884). Initially, The International Cyclopaedia was largely a reprint of Alden's Library of Universal Knowledge, which itself was a reprint of the British Chambers's Encyclopaedia. The title was changed to The New International Encyclopedia in 1902, with editors Harry Thurston Peck, Daniel Coit Gilman and Frank Moore Colby.
The encyclopedia was popular and reprints were made in 1904, 1905, 1907 (corrected and expanded to 20 volumes), 1909 and 1911. The 2nd edition appeared from 1914 to 1917 in 24 volumes. With Peck and Gilman deceased, Colby was joined by a new editor, Talcott Williams. This edition was set up from new type and thoroughly revised. It was very strong in biography.
A third edition was published in 1923, but this was mostly a reprint with the addition of a history of the First World War in volume 24, which had previously been a reading and study guide. A two-volume supplement was published in 1925 and was incorporated into the 1927 reprint, which had 25 volumes. There was a further two-volume supplement in 1930 along with another reprint.
The final edition, in 1935, was published by Funk & Wagnalls. This edition included another updated supplement, authored by Herbert Treadwell Wade. Some material from The New International would be incorporated into future books published by Funk and Wagnalls such as Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopaedia.
The 1926 material was printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Yale University Press. Boston Bookbinding Company of Cambridge produced the covers. Thirteen books enclosing 23 volumes comprise the encyclopedia, which includes a supplement after Volume 23. Each book contains around 1600 pages.
Like other encyclopedias of the time, The New International had a yearly supplement, The New International Yearbook, beginning in 1908. Like the encyclopedia itself, this publication was sold to Funk and Wagnalls in 1931. It was edited by Frank Moore Colby until his death in 1925, and then by Wade. In 1937, Frank Horace Vizetelly became editor. The yearbook outlasted the parent encyclopedia, running to 1966.
More than 500 men and women submitted and composed the information contained in The New International Encyclopedia.
Volumes + volEditionInternet ArchiveWikisource (incomplete) Year From – To Notes 11stIA 1 WS 1 1905 A – Aristogoras 21stIA 2WS 2 1905 Aristarchus – Bessières 31stIA 3WS 3 1905 Bessus – Cairns 41stIA 4 WS 4 1905 Cairo – Classification of Ships 51stIA 5 WS 5 1905 Classis – Da Vinci 61stIA 6 WS 6 1905 Davioud – Ellery 71stIA 7 WS 7 1905 Ellesmere – Fontanel 81st Not available WS 8 1905 Fontanes – Goethe 91stIA 9 WS 9 1905 Goethite – Heritable Jurisdictions 101stIA 10 WS 10 1905 Herjulfson – Ishpeming 111stIA 11 WS 11 1905 Ishtar – Latitudinarians 121stIA 12 WS 12 1905 Latium – Manna 131stIA 13 WS 13 1905 Manna-Croup – Morganatic Marriage 141stIA 14 WS 14 1905 Morgan City – Omul 151stIA 15 WS 15 1905 Ona – Pickering 161stIA 16 WS 16 1905 Pickersgill – Reid 171stIA 17 WS 17 1905 Reifferscheid – Servian Wall 181stIA 18 WS 18 1905 Service-berry – Tagus 191stIA 19 WS 19 1905 Taharka – Vampire 201stIA 20 WS 20 1905 Van – Zyrians
2nd ed. at Princeton (1914-16; complete) on the HathiTrust website
+New International Encyclopedia (incomplete)Volume EditionYearcopyright lastFrom – To Volume 3 2nd 1928 Bazaine – BrockVolume 4 2nd 1928 Brockelmann – ChaeremonVolume 5 2nd 1914 Chæronia – ConsueloVolume 6 2nd 1928 Consul – DidymograptusVolume 8 2nd Enteritis – ForakerVolume 10 2nd 1928 Glacial – Havre de GraceVolume 12 2nd 1915 Imaginary – JouyVolume 13 2nd 1915 Jovanovich – LeprohonVolume 17 2nd 1916 Newfoundland – PanjabVolume 18 2nd 1916 Panjabi – PolizianoVolume 19 2nd 1916 Polk – RiggingVolume 20 2nd 1916 Riggs – ShilluckVolume 21 2nd 1916 Shiloh – TarsusVolume 22 2nd 1916 Tartaglia – ValiantVolume 24 Sup 1930 1930Abbe – LyonsVolume 25 Sup 1930 Municipal – Zweig
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