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A general biographical dictionary. / By John Gorton, author of the "General Topographical Dictionary," &c., &c. In three volumes.
LIBRA - Rare CT103 .G7 1847 Frost copy v.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gorton, John, -1835.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography--Dictionaries.
- Biography.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Reynolds-Peyton, Alice (former owner) (Frost Collection copy)
- Hamilton, Thomas (autograph) (Frost Collection copy v. 2)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Manufacture:
- London : Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stratford-street.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Whittaker and Co., Ave-Maria Lane, 1847.
- Contents:
- v. 1. A-FYO
- v. 2. Gab-Pyt
- v. 3. Qua-Zri.
- Notes:
- Text printed in double columns.
- Contains "Appendix to Gorton's Biographical Dictionary, being a reprint of the former appendix, with additions and corrections, as also a continuation of lives of interest and importance of deceased individuals from the date of original publication to the present time" by John Gorton: v. 3, [290] pages.
- "A catalogue of works in the Latin, English, French, Italian, & German languages. Relating to biography and literary history": v. 3, [10] p. following Appendix.
- "A Chronological table of remarkable events in the history of the human race; with a corresponding catalogue of eminent men who have flourished from the earliest ages of authentic record to the present time [1830]": v. 3, [42] p. at end.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy has brown leather spine lettered in gilt on darker brown background. Leather corners and marbled paper over boards.
- Frost Collection copy has label of Alice Reynolds-Peyton pasted on front pastedown.
- Frost Collection copy v. 2 has [4] page letter dated 14 Feb. 1853 addressed "My dear Sir" and signed "Thomas Hamilton" bound in before title page.
- OCLC:
- 271430950
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