Modern English Biography containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who have Died Since the Year 1850. Volume 6: (Supplement Volume 3) L-Z.

Facsimile Reprint of the 1892-1921 ed. Hardback Frederic Boase's "Modern English Biography" (1892-1921) contains over 25,000 biographies of English men and women from the 19th century, making this six-volume dictionary a reference work for scholars in many disciplines. For a period of over twenty years Boase (1843-1916) made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850. The work contains memoirs of a variety of members of parliament. Other persons included are architects, inventors, publishers, actors, painters, engravers, physicians, eccentric characters and notorious criminals: "in fact any one who has been well known and about whom a question might arise in general conversations". Each memoir contains the main details of each life, sources of portraits and, for authors, short titles of their main works. Boase's information was carefully obtained and checked from various sources to give accurate details, such as birth and death dates. Containing a wealth of information, this important contribution to English biography of the 19th century supplements other biographical sources such as the "Dictionary of National Biography", "English Men of Letters", "Alumni Oxionienses" and "Cantabrigienses". Octavo. (512)pp. Small mark to cover otherwise a near fine, unread copy. Complete in itself but part of a larger set.…