A New and General Biographical Dictionary; containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; particularly the British and Irish … A New Edition in Fifteen Volumes, Greatly Enlarged and Improved.

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

Published by London: G. G. and J. Robinson [and 26 others], 1798

About this Item

First edition to be published under the editorship of writer and translator William Tooke (c.1744-1820). Published in 11 volumes in 1761, the Dictionary was robustly augmented and revised for this edition. 15 vols, octavo (208 x 121 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, flat spines, black morocco title labels, red morocco roundel numbering-pieces, compartments gilt with zig-zag pattern, single foliate roll to boards, edges sprinkled red. Ownership inscriptions dated 1804 to front pastedowns, armorial bookplates likely of Benjamin Blades Haworth (1763-1836). Lightly rubbed, worm hole at head of vol. XIV spine. A near-fine set.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A New and General Biographical Dictionary; containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; particularly the British and Irish … A New Edition in Fifteen Volumes, Greatly Enlarged and Improved.
• Publisher: London: G. G. and J. Robinson [and 26 others], 1798