The General Encyclopedia of the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute is a general encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....

 published in eight volumes by the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute

Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute

The Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute is Croatia's national lexicographical institution. Based in Zagreb, it was originally established in 1950 as the national lexicographical institute of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

 in Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

between 1977 and 1982. It was the third edition of the encyclopedia, with the first two editions being published under the name Enciklopedija leksikografskog zavoda (Encyclopedia of the Lexicographical Institute). The first edition in ten volumes was published between 1955 and 1964, and the second edition in six volumes was published between 1966 and 1969.

Volumes

The third edition of the encyclopedia has 8 volumes:

Vol.	Article span	Year of publishing	Number of pages
1	A – Bzu	1977	748
2	C – Fob	1977	749
3	Foc – Iw	1977	719
4	Iz – Kzy	1978	703
5	L – Nigh	1979	750
6	Nih – Ras	1980	766
7	Raš – Szy	1981	780
8	Š – Žva	1982	791

The third edition was amended with an additional volume (Dopunski svezak) published in 1988:

Vol.	Article span	Year of publishing	Number of pages
9	A – Ž	1988	752