A critical dictionary of English literature
Subtitle: and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century. Containing thirty thousand biographies and literary notices, with forty indexes of subjects.
By: By S. Austin Allibone ....
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & co. [etc.]
Published: 1858
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, English -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Notes: Paged continuously.
Vol. 1 has added t.-p., engraved.
Vol. 1 published by Childs & Peterson, 1858; v. 2-3, by J. B. Lippincott & co., 1870-71.
Title varies; v. 2: ... to the latter half of the nineteenth century. Containing over forty-three thousand articles ... v. 3: ... to the latter half of the nineteenth century. Containing over forty-six thousand articles ....
Supplement by John Foster Kirk was published in 2 v., 1891.