Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, to the present times
Subtitle: collected from the best authorities, printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary
Contributors: Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799
Edition: The second edition, with corrections, enlargements, and the addition of new lives / by Andrew Kippis ... ; with the assistance of other gentlemen.
Publisher: Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons [and 14 others]
Published: 1778
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Biography; Dictionaries
Other titles: Biographia britannica.; Lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland from the earliest ages to the present times.
Notes: Vols. 2-5, "with the assistance of the Rev. Joseph Towers, LL.D. and other gentlemen."

Vol. 3 has imprint: Printed by J. Rivington, jun. for C. Bathurst ... ; v. 4: Printed by Rivington and Marshall, for J. Rivington and Sons ... ; v.5: Printed by J. Nichols, for T. Longman ...

"A first part of the sixth volume ('Featley' to 'Foster') was printed in 1795 ... Dr. George Gregory wrote a preface, intending to come forward as continuator of the work. Delays in its publication followed, and nearly the whole impression was consumed in the fire on Nichol's premises in ... 1808, only three copies having been preserved"--Dict. Nat. Biog.

No more published. Alphabet covers only A - Falstoff.
Table of contents: title: v.1. A - Bathurst, Ralph; title: v.2. Bathurst, Allen - Bull; title: v.3. Bulleyn - Coke; title: v. 4. Cole - Davies; title: v.5. Davis - Fastolff.