A dictionary of biography
Subtitle: comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions
By: by R.A. Davenport
Edition: 1st American ed. / with numerous additions, corrections and improvements, and illustrated by two hundred fine portraits, on wood.
Publisher: J. & B. Williams
Published: 1836
Place of publication: Exeter
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
Subjects: Biography -- Dictionaries.
Genres: Dictionaries.
Other titles: Biography of eminent men
Notes: "Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1832, by S.G. Goodrich"--T.p. verso.

"The English work of which this is substantially a reprint, was prepared with care and accuracy, and brought down to the end of the year 1831. Various altertions and improvements have been made, and several European, and about three hundred American names have been added in the present manual of biography, and well adapted to the wants of the American public"--T.p. verso.

Two columns to the page.

Book, cloth; spine broken.