This article tackles with the economic content of the Spanish encyclopaedic literature of the 18th Century. After having analysed the genealogy of the dictionaries of commerce of the European Enlightenment, the paper studies the Spanish projects, as well as the economic content of the Spanish...

<italic>The article analyzes the economic entries of the main Spanish general encyclopedias of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries:</italic> Diccionario enciclopédico <italic>(1887–1898) and</italic> Enciclopedia universal <italic>(1908–1930). Both works include the contributions of prestigious Spanish and Latin...</italic>