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Annual Cyclopedia

The Annual Cyclopedia was an American yearbook covering the years 1861-1901 by the New York publisher D. Appleton & Company. It was a comprehensive yearbook of events, obituaries and statistics, worldwide, with many articles written by experts, some of them signed.

It was sold as an annual supplement to the New American Cyclopedia in 16 volumes, edited by George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, 1857–1863. When that encyclopedia was enlarged as American Cyclopedia (1873–1876), the Cyclopedia started a new series.

Sets are held in major libraries, and some volumes are online.

It appeared under several titles:

  • The American annual cyclopedia and register of important events. Embracing political, civil, military, and social affairs: public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry. (1862–75)
  • Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events embracing political military, and ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry : a general and analytical index to the American cyclopaedia.
  • The Annual Cyclopedia
  • Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia
  • Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia
  • American annual cyclopedia and register of important events (1876-1903)
  • American Annual Cyclopedia

    • Appleton also published a six volume biographical compendium, many of whose articles are linked in Wikipedia: James Grant Wilson, and John Fiske, eds. Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (D. Appleton and company, 1887) online vol 2

    The editors included fake biographies to spot copyright violators, but no such accusation was made against the Annual Cyclopedia.

    On line copies

  • Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1861 (1864) online
  • Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. p. i. 
  • Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events: Embracing political, military, and ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry, Volume 3 1863 (1864), thorough coverage of the events of 1863
  • The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1867
  • American Annual Cyclopedia ... 1868 (1869), online
  • American Annual Cyclopedia ... for 1869 (1870) online edition
  • Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia ... for 1870 (1871)
  • American Annual Cyclopedia ... for 1872 (1873)
  • Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia ... for 1873 (1879) online edition
  • Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia ... for 1875 (1877)
  • The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1876
  • Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia ... for 1877 (1878)
  • The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1881
  • The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1882
  • The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1884
  • The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1887
  • The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1888
  • The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1893
  • The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1895
  • The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1896
  • Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry: 1901. Appleton. 1902. 

    • References

    Annual Cyclopedia Wikipedia
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