Editing Jeremy Collier (section)

== Dictionary ==

Collier published an early encyclopedia in 1701, ''[[The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary]]''. He freely admitted that the text was based on a number of earlier historians, but especially out of the eighth edition of [[Louis Moréri]]'s  ''[[Grand Dictionnaire Historique]]''. This was issued in two volumes in London from 1701 to 1705 with an appendix covering the time period from 1688 "by another hand" being issued in the latter year. A further appendix was issued in 1721 and a second edition in 1727. The work was not considered a success as Collier's additions were not of the same quality as the source text and it came out during the same period as the ''[[Lexicon Technicum]]''.<ref>Collison, Robert Lewis. ''Encyclopaedias: their history throughout the ages; a bibliographical guide with extensive historical notes to the general encyclopaedias issued throughout the world from 350 B.C. to the present day.'' New York, Hafner, 1966 p.97</ref>