Author : John Foster Kirk
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-12
ISBN 13 : 9780331277470
Pages : 744 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (331 downloads)
Download A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Vol. 1 PDF Format Full Free by John Foster Kirk and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Vol. 1: Containing Over Thirty-Seven Thousand Articles (Authors), And Enumerating Over Ninety-Three Thousand Titles From the first publication Of Allibone's Dictionary its value has been recognized and the use of it in public and private libraries has constantly extended and increased. Covering as it does the whole field of English literature, and combining biographical, bibliographical, and critical material, it is, in fact, a unique work, - indispensable as a library companion, serviceable to all students of subjects comprehended in its range, and not without interest for readers Of every class who may be led by some casual desire for information to consult its pages. Produced by a vast amount of careful and diligent labor, it supplies a general and permanent need, and it has, consequently, had no rival and run no risk of being supplanted, - unlike in this respect a host of dictionaries and other works Of reference having a different scope and containing information that has become Obsolete through the advance Of knowledge or changes of usage and after serving its purpose for a time has been made the basis of wider and more minute research. It belongs, however, to the very nature of such a work that it should require to be supplemented from time to time. Its substance does not decay; the information which it gives is not superseded by the results Of further inquiry; but the matter with which it deals is constantly increasing in bulk, and the accreticns call for an extension of space and a fresh amount Of labor in order that they may be arranged and stowed in an annex of suitable dimensions. How rapid has been the rate of literary production in recent years - rivalling the accelerated speed Of travel and the multiplication of mechanical inventions - will be apparent on the merest glance through these volumes. Covering a comparatively Short period, they contain more than half as many pages as the original work, and this although the matter is in many respects given in a more concise form, everything being pruned away which in a strict view Of the requirements of the task might be considered superfluous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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