Historical Corpus (1771-1860)
Browse the complete text of seven editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, spanning nearly a century of knowledge from 1771 to 1860. This corpus contains over 174,000 articles extracted from OCR-processed historical volumes.
| Edition | Year | Volumes | Articles | Treatises | Biographical | Geographical |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Edition | 1771 | 3 | 12,522 | 283 | 0 | 2,051 |
| 2nd Edition | 1778 | 10 | 17,059 | 846 | 733 | 2,273 |
| 3rd Edition | 1797 | 18 | 21,134 | 1,413 | 790 | 2,718 |
| 4th Edition | 1810 | 20 | 14,782 | 710 | 345 | 1,348 |
| 5th Edition | 1815 | 19 | 18,582 | 1,309 | 650 | 2,624 |
| 6th Edition | 1823 | 20 | 15,944 | 1,309 | 538 | 2,126 |
| 7th Edition | 1842 | 22 | 18,878 | 2,026 | 584 | 4,084 |
| 8th Edition | 1860 | 22 | 15,555 | 2,140 | 1,084 | 2,312 |