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. Illustrated by a variety of communications from persons of the first eminence in the world of letters
London: printed for Henry Colburn, 1816. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 449, [1]; 20th-century tan cloth-backed green cloth over boards, morocco label lettered in gilt on spine; slight toning of the text but in all, a very good, sound copy. OCLC provides this note: "Mr. [Frederic] Shoberl proceeded to assure..... More
