1892 A Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: and More Particularly of Distinguished Natives of Great Britain and Ireland

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Leather Binding, Prize Binding

An impressive biographical dictionary from English reference compiler and man of letters, Thompson Cooper. From the 'Bohn's Reference Library' inaugurated by Henry George Bohn. 

Complete in two volumes.

Bound in full calf prize binding, with a gilt stamp to the front boards and marbled endpapers. 

With the contemporary prize bookplate from Mercers School to the front pastedown of Volume I. 

These works contain concise biographies of an array of eminent figures around the world, but more particularly natives of Great Britain and Ireland. 

Author Thompson Cooper was also a prolific contributor to the Victorian era 'Dictionary of National Biography', for which he wrote 1,423 entries.

With a supplement to the end of Volume II bringing the work down to the end of the year 1882.