Early Britannica

Jeff Loveland is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Utah Tech University. Much of his research concerns the history of encyclopedias, especially eighteenth-century European encyclopedias. His publications include The Early Britannica (1768-1803) (2009, co-edited with Frank A. Kafker) and The European Encyclopedia, from 1650 to the Twenty-First Century (2019).

• Introduction, Frank A. Kafker and Jeff LovelandWilliam Smellie’s edition (1768-1771): a modest start, Frank A. Kafker and Jeff LovelandJames Tytler’s edition (1777-1784): a vast expansion and improvement, Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker, Jeff Loveland and Dennis A. TrinkleColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig and possibly James Tytler’s edition (1788-1797): the attainment of recognition and eminence, Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker, William E. Morris et alGeorge Gleig’s Supplement to the third edition (1801-1803): learned and combative, Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Frank A. Kafker and Jeff LovelandEpilogue: the tortoise and the hare: the longevity of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Encyclopédie compared, Frank A. KafkerBibliographyIndex

'This collective effort produces extremely useful detail , marking the changing content of successive editions and thus giving clues to what was seen as novel or in need of revision. […] with its painstaking detail and awareness of the Scottish Enlightenment context, The Early Britannica: The growth of an outstanding Encyclopedia provides a valuable basis for future comparative work on the European encyclopedic project.'- Isis