A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland: Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives, and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, with the Number of Editions Printed; Including Notices of Some Foreign Writers Whose Works Have Been Occasionally Published in England |
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| Title | A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland: Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives, and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, with the Number of Editions Printed; Including Notices of Some Foreign Writers Whose Works Have Been ... |
| Author | William Upcott |
| Editors | John Watkins, Frederic Shoberl, William Upcott |
| Publisher | H. Colburn, 1816 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 449 pages |
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