Cyclopaedia of English literature
Subtitle: a selection of the choicest productions of English authors, from the earliest to the present time, connected by a critical and biographical history. Elegantly illustrated.
By: Edited by Robert Chambers.
Contributors: Carruthers, Robert, 1799-1878.; Sartain, John, 1808-1897.
Publisher: Gould and Lincoln
Published: 1853
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature -- Dictionaries; English literature -- Encyclopedias; Authors, English -- Dictionaries
Genres: Dictionaries.; Encyclopedias.
Notes: With large contributions from Robert Carruthers. Cf. Pref.; Dict. nat. biog.
Frontispiece portrait (mezzotint?) of Shakespeare by John Sartain.
"Fourteen thousand."
LC Copy 2 is another issue: "Fifteen thousand." Incomplete: vol. 1 only.