Author: BARTLETT, JOHN
Title: Familiar Quotations a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Description: Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Company, 1892. 9th Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. This copy has a quarter (or half) leather binding with marbled boards. (leather spine and corners) There is rubbing to the edges, spine ends and corners. There is a crack to the top front spine joint. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy is a clean, generally bright edition. "He began keeping a commonplace book of quotations to answer queries and in 1855 privately printed the first edition of his Familiar Quotations. That edition of 258 pages contained entries from 169 authors. One-third of the book was quotations from the Bible and from the works of William Shakespeare, most of the balance being lines from the great English poets. Bartlett sold the bookstore in 1862 to become a paymaster in the United States Navy during the Civil War. He served on the South Atlantic station, returning to Boston in 1863 to join the firm Little, Brown and Company. That same year, Little, Brown issued the fourth edition of his quotation book. He rose to be the firm's senior partner in 1878 and retired from the firm in 1889. In addition to work on quotations (he oversaw nine editions of his book) , he wrote on fishing, and chess, and compiled a massive concordance of Shakespeare, published in 1894, that is still the standard work of its kind. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
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Title: Familiar Quotations a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Description: Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Company, 1892. 9th Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. This copy has a quarter (or half) leather binding with marbled boards. (leather spine and corners) There is rubbing to the edges, spine ends and corners. There is a crack to the top front spine joint. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy is a clean, generally bright edition. "He began keeping a commonplace book of quotations to answer queries and in 1855 privately printed the first edition of his Familiar Quotations. That edition of 258 pages contained entries from 169 authors. One-third of the book was quotations from the Bible and from the works of William Shakespeare, most of the balance being lines from the great English poets. Bartlett sold the bookstore in 1862 to become a paymaster in the United States Navy during the Civil War. He served on the South Atlantic station, returning to Boston in 1863 to join the firm Little, Brown and Company. That same year, Little, Brown issued the fourth edition of his quotation book. He rose to be the firm's senior partner in 1878 and retired from the firm in 1889. In addition to work on quotations (he oversaw nine editions of his book) , he wrote on fishing, and chess, and compiled a massive concordance of Shakespeare, published in 1894, that is still the standard work of its kind. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Reference John Bartlett Bartlett's Quotations quotation books English Language Language
Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43135
- Book number: 43135
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