biography
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| (1820–1905)
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| biography:
| Lexicographer, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. The self-educated Bartlett began his publishing career as a bookseller in Cambridge, MA. His Familiar Quotations, which included American, together with the more traditional British and Biblical selections, was first published in 1855. It continues to this day in revised editions, and ‘Look it up in Bartlett!’ is now as famous as many of its contents. He joined Little, Brown and Co publishers in 1863. He prepared the second American edition of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler, and with his wife compiled Phrases and Passages in the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare (1894). |
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