The "New International Encyclopedia" was an update of The "International Cyclopaedia", which was last published in 1884. In turn, the "International Cyclopaedia" was largely a copy of Alden's "Library of Universal Knowledge". That in its turn was a reprint of "Chambers's Encyclopaedia". The original 1902 edition was edited by Harry Thurston Peck, Daniel Colt Gilman, and Frank Moore Colby. 