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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Type of record: Book
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 occasionally published in England
Classmark: English L-0.09/WAT
Additional creator(s): Watkins, John (fl. 1792-1831) (Other); Shoberl, Frederic (1775-1853) (Other); Upcott, William (1779-1845) (Other)
Related people: Watkins, John; Shoberl, Frederic; Upcott, William
Publisher: Printed for H. Colburn
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1816
Language: English
Size and medium: viii, 449 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/189054
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008824709705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
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"Mr. [Frederic] Shoberl proceeded to assure me, in the presence of his son, that the work was written by [John] Watkins as far as the letter F -- that some dispute with the publisers then arose -- that the materials were thereofore handed over to himself -- and that he completed the work as it now appears." -- Bolton Corney, in Notes & queries, 1st ser., v. 11 (1855) p. 34.
The work is sometimes attributed to William Upcott.
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