List of 18th-century encyclopedias

General

 * The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary by Jeremy Collier (1701)
 * An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary (1703)
 * Lexicon Technicum by John Harris (1704)
 * Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences by Ephraim Chambers (1728)
 * General Dictionary, Historical and Critical by Thomas Birch (1734-41)
 * Dictionarium polygraphicum by John Barrow (1735)
 * An Universal History of Arts and Sciences by Dennis de Coetlogon (1745)
 * A new universal history of arts and sciences (1759)
 * A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences (1763)
 * Complete Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences by Thomas Henry Croker (1764–1766)
 * The new complete dictionary of arts and sciences, or, An universal system of useful knowledge Vol. 2 (1778)
 * New Royal Cyclopaedia and Encyclopaedia (1788). Edited by George Selby Howard and published in London in 1788, this was largely a plagiarization of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia.
 * Encyclopædia Perthensis (1796–1806, ed 2 by 1816)

Britannica

 * Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771)
 * Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition (1777–1784)
 * Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition (1797)
 * Dobson's Encyclopædia (1789–1798; largely a reprint of the Britannica's 3rd edition)
 * Moore's Dublin Edition (1788–1797; largely a reprint of the Britannica's 3rd edition)

Specialized

 * The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry
 * Medicinal Dictionary by Robert James (1743–1745),
 * The universal dictionary of trade and commerce by Malachy Postlethwayt (an adaptation of Dictionnaire universel de commerce. by Jacques Savary des Brûlons (1751)
 * Urania or, A compleat view of the heavens: containing the antient and modern astronomy, in form of a dictionary by John Hill (1754)
 * Chemical Dictionary by William Nicholson (1795)
 *  A mathematical and philosophical dictionary by Charles Hutton (1795)

Chinese encyclopedias

 * Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (1725–26), Qing dynasty
 * Complete Library of the Four Treasuries (1782), Qing dynasty

French encyclopedias

 * Dictionnaire de Trévoux (1704–1771)
 * La Science des personnes de cour, d'épée et de robe by Chevigny (1707)
 * Nouveau dictionnaire historique et critique by Jacques-Georges Chauffepié (1750)
 * Dictionaire historique by Prosper Marchand (1758)
 * Encyclopédie, by Diderot and D'Alembert (1751–1772)
 * Descriptions des Arts et Métiers (1761–1788)
 * Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines, Yverdon, (1770–1780)
 * Encyclopédie Méthodique by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1782–1832)

Specialized

 * Dictionnaire philosophique, Voltaire

German encyclopedias

 * Reales Staats- und Zeitungs-Lexicon by Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz (1704)
 * Curieuses Natur- Kunst- Gewerk- und Handlungs-Lexicon by Paul Jacob Marperger (1712)
 * Allgemeines lexikon der Künste und Wißenschaften by Johann Theodor Jablonski (1721)
 * Musicalisches Lexicon by Johann Gottfried Walther (1732)
 * Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon by Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (1733–1751)
 * Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon by Johann Heinrich Zedler (1751–1754)
 * Oekonomische Encyklopädie by Johann Georg Krünitz (1773–1858)
 * Deutschen Encyclopädie (1788)
 * Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonküstler by Ernst Ludwig Gerber (1790–1792)
 * Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten (1796–1808; see Brockhaus)

Hebrew

 * Ma'aseh Toviyyah (1707)

Italian encyclopedias

 * Vincenzo Coronelli Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana (1701–1707)
 * Gianfrancesco Pivati Nuovo dizionario scientifico e curioso, sacroprofano (1746–1751)
 * Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Idea dell'Universo (1778-1792)

Japanese encyclopedias

 * Wakan Sansai Zue (1712)

Polish encyclopedias

 * Nowe Ateny (1745)
 * Zbiór potrzebniejszych wiadomości (1781)