A biographical dictionary of the living authors of Great Britain and Ireland . 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. Illustrated by a variety of communications from persons of the first eminence in the world of letters.
John Watkins (fl.1792 - 1831)
Category
Books
Date
1816
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3067507
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 449 , [16]p.. Without the publisher's catalogue. Interleaved copy with MS. annotations including a two leaf biography of Edward Bancroft and cuttings on Lord Blayney and the death of Captain Thomas Stephens. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]; front free endpaper inscribed: "J Gardner Wilkinson This book belonged Alex. Stephens Esq. Park House" [i.e. Alexander Stephens (1757-1821), whose amended biography appears on p.331]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper boards, gilt-lettered on red label: 'Biographical dictionary of living authors'.
Makers and roles
John Watkins (fl.1792 - 1831) Frederic Shoberl (1775-1853) William Upcott (1799-1845)