A New and General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical, Critical, and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminenet Persons in Every Nation in the World (Complete in Eight volumes)

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Published by Printed for the Proprietors, London, 1795

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A New and General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical, Critical, and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminenet Persons in Every Nation in the World, Particularly the British and the Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the present Period; wherein their remarkable actions and sufferings, their virtues, vices, parts, and learning are accurately recorded and displayed: with catalogues of their literary productions. A new edition, in eight volumes, corrected, enlarged, and greatly improved; with the addition of many hundreds of new lives, never published before. Full tree calf, spines tooled in gilt in 6 compartments with red title labels and green volume labels (many lost of chipped), marbled eps, all boards attached, many cracked, contents sound throughout. Bookplate of Archdeacon Browne on fpd of vol. I; contemporary name of Robt. Lucas on top margin of each title page, inscription on first blank page of vol. 1 "The gift of an esteem'd friend Major Lennon, on his return in the Union from Bengal [?]". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

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• Title: A New and General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical, Critical, and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminenet Persons in Every Nation in the World (Complete in Eight volumes)
• Publisher: Printed for the Proprietors, London
• Publication Date: 1795
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: A New Edition.
• Condition: Good
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  • Autobiography and Biography
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