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He is concerned, he says, to complete “a cyclopedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great metropolis”.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2017

"I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new Champlin cyclopedia for young folks, edited by Lincoln MacVeagh.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1953 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

One of the functions of the modern library is that of a huge cyclopedia, kept continually up to date by the acquisition of new material—books, periodicals, prints, pamphlets, clippings, publicity matter and manuscripts.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

It is a cyclopedia of inventions, in which one may be sure of finding described the best processes yet discovered for doing every thing that is to be done by means of mechanics.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various