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Familiar quotations : a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature / John Bartlett ; edited by Emily Morison Beck, and the editorial staff of Little, Brown and Company.
Pennsylvania Hospital Library - History PN 6081 B289f 1980 [Reference]
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bartlett, John, 1820-1905, compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quotations, English.
- Literature.
- Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic.
- Citations anglaises.
- Medical Subjects:
- Literature.
- Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic.
- Local Subjects:
- Citations anglaises.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- lviii, 1540 pages ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Fifteenth and 125th anniversary edition, revised and enlarged.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little Brown, 1980.
- Summary:
- Chronologically arranged entries supply quotations from 2,250 authors and major collective or anonymous works, with an alphabetical index of authors and an index to the text.
- Contents:
- Preface to the Fifteenth edition
- Historical note
- Guide to the use of Familiar Quotations
- Index of authors
- Familiar Quotations, from ancient Egypt and the Bible to the present
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection is "Fifth Printing" of "Fifteenth Edition Published 1980".
- ISBN:
- 0316082759
- 9780316082754
- OCLC:
- 6421457
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