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On the 1 st of January 1885 will be published VOLUME I . ( ABBADIE—ANNE ) Demy 8 vo . of the I DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY . EDITED BY LESLIE STEPHEN . Further Volumes will be issued at intervals of Three Months ; and it is confidently expected that the Work will be completed in about Fifty Volumes . The price of each Volume will be 12 s . 6 d . bound in cloth ; or in half-morocco , marbled edges , 18 s . HI flJSFSS U & l wM Em | i HE reader DICTIONAR ttt which has recognised has , Y OF more NATIONAL utility than , of half the BIOGRA a great century French PH , been Y Dictionaries is genera intended lly of fe to Universal . suppl Every y t PKh ( ABoSSul Hflnj " Biograp by the gr hy ^ . at At increase the present of the day results such of a work historical would inquiry be rendered . Some impracticable division of labour work dictionary abroad seems . The ; to and be German it imperativel is , intended and y Bel necessary to gian provide dictionaries . a Each dictionary nation , now for in should progress our own have , nation are its ins own worth tances biographical y of to suck take a place beside them . Islands The ' fro Dictionary m the earliest of National historic Biograp al period hy . ' wi Living ll include persons lives are of inhabitants excluded . of The the first British aim . h h as to been rical t r esearc give biograp hand h be ies fou wh nded ich shall u embod an examination y with sufficient of ori fulness inal documents the latest . results A . clear of which indication further will information be g , iven in each be derived ticle pon of . the authorities which g have been used , and . from may studen The ts Editor of spec has ial endeavoured periods or departments in all cases of to history obtain . the He assistance has received of the a great most number competent oi un gra impor Library titude tant , and for articles sources t o ther invaluable from instituti and writers in h ons elp the . of case A iven recognised grea of by recent t the mass officials authority lives of inf much orma at , an the tion d valuable British he has l be Museum hel to express iven has , from been the his Bodleian afforded hitherto sincere by published the friends and relatives ; , of the subjects of the , articles . Any assistance p of that kind in future will be thankfully acknowledged . be admitted The great . difficulty Notwiths in tanding such a every task effort is to determine to secure the condensation principles upon of statement which lives , the are work t «> to must iv be e all necessaril impracticabl lives lik y be e to of to be very lay of down great interest an extent y to abso . serious lute Some ly students fixed selection rule of . is therefo history The main re and necessary princi literature ple , but lias . it Thoug been seem t <> h * possible s g it tudents is impracticable wi of thin bibliograp the y to necessary hy supp and ly al limits genealogy l the . information The , the selection aim will which must be mi , to g g ht ive course be as desired muc , be h less information by exhaustive the minute aa in js r modern timeswhen the available materials of biography become overwhelmingly voluminous . , pointed will In be later not out unworthy volumes in the first it of . will the It be is aims soug confidentl imp ht to lied y remed ho in ped its y , any titl in any e errors ; and case of , that that excess it the will or execution defect take its which p of lac the e may bea wor m w the completest Biographical Dictionaries hitherto published . I London : SMITH , ELDER , & CO ., 15 Waterloo Place .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1884, page 1308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121884/page/76/
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