The Pictorial cyclopaedia of biography
Subtitle: embracing a series of original memoirs of the most distinguished persons of all times
By: written for this work by Sir Archibald Alison ... [et al.].
Edition: American ed. edited by Francis 1. Hawkes.
Publisher: D. Appleton
Published: 1856
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1058
Subjects: Biography; Dictionaries; Biography as Topic; Physicians
Other titles: Appleton's cyclopedia of biography
Notes: The basis of this work is the "Cyclopedia of biography" ed. by Elihu Rich in London. cf. Prelim. note.

Spine title: Appleton's cyclopedia of biography.