Annual Cyclopaedia Explained

The Annual Cyclopedia was an American yearbook covering the years 1861–1902 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.^[1]

Online copies

Year	available online
1861	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1861
1862	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1862
1863	1863
1864	1864
1865	1865
1866	1866
1867	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1867
1868	1868
1869	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1869
1870	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1870	- cannot be read online
1871	1871
1872	1872
1873	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1873
1874	The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1874
1875	1875
1876	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1876
1877	1877
1878
1879
1880	1880
1881	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1881
1882	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1882
1883
1884	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1884
1885
1886
1887	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1887
1888	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1888
1889	1889
1890
1891
1892
1893	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1893
1894
1895	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1895
1896	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1896
1897
1898	1898
1899	Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1899	- cannot be read online
1900	1900
1901	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	- cannot be read online
1902	Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events: 1902

Notes

1. Dobson, John Blythe. "The Spurious Articles In" Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography" Some New Discoveries and Considerations." Biography (1993): 388-408.

External links

• Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events via HathiTrust, 1861-1902