A biographical dictionary of the living authors of Great Britain and Ireland
Subtitle: comprising literary memoirs and anecdotes of their lives, and a chronological register of their publications, with the number of editions printed; including notices of some foreign writers whose works have been occasionally published in England.
By: Illustrated by a variety of communications from persons of the first eminence in the world of letters.
Contributors: Watkins, John, fl. 1792-1831.; Shoberl, Frederic, 1775-1853.; Upcott, William, 1779-1845, supposed author.
Publisher: Printed for H. Colburn
Published: 1816
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: English literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, English -- Biography -- Dictionaries; English literature -- Irish authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, Irish -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Great Britain -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Ireland -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Notes: "Mr. [Frederic] Shoberl proceeded to assure me, in the presence of his son, that the work was written by [John] Watkins as far as the letter F -- that some dispute with the publisers then arose -- that the materials were thereofore handed over to himself -- and that he completed the work as it now appears." -- Bolton Corney, in Notes & queries, 1st ser., v. 11 (1855) p. 34.
The work is sometimes attributed to William Upcott.