Although a few other encyclopaedias had been fighting with the Britannica , such as Rees 's Cyclopaedia and Coleridge 's Encyclopaedia Metropolitana , these encyclopedias either went bankrupt or were not finished because the people writing them argued . Several other encyclopaedias competed throughout this period , among them editions of Rees 's Cyclopaedia and Coleridge 's Encyclopaedia Metropolitana .