An edition appeared at Leghorn in 1770, and another at Lucca in 1771.

Immediately after the completion of the Encyclopaedia there began to appear volumes of selections from it.

The compilers of these anthologies (for instance of an _Esprit de l'Encydopedie_ published at Geneva in 1768) were free from all intention of proselytising.

They meant only to turn a more or less honest penny by serving up in neat duodecimos the liveliest, most curious, and most amusing pieces to be found in the immense mass of the folios of the original.
The Encyclopaedia of Diderot, though not itself the most prodigious achievement on which French booksellers may pride themselves, yet inspired that achievement.

In 1782 Panckoucke--a familiar name in the correspondence of Voltaire and the Voltairean family--conceived the plan of a Methodical Encyclopaedia.