Encyclopaedia

For more on the nature, forms and versions of an Encylopaedia, see for example:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/encyclopaedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia

H.G. Wells. 1936. "The Idea of a World Encyclopedia." Nature, 138, no. 3500 (28 November 1936): 917-24.[1]

C. Van Doren. 1962. "The Idea of an Encyclopedia". In: American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 6, Issue 1.[2]

Katharine Schopflin. 2014. "What do we Think an Encyclopaedia is?" Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research 6(3):483-503 (DOI: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146483)