A new and general biographical dictionary; containing an historical and critical account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation; particularly the British and Irish; from the earliest accounts of time to the present period. Wherein their remarkable actions and sufferings, their virtues, parts, and learning, are accurately displayed. With a catalogue of their literary productions.

London : printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, J. Johnson, J. Nichols, J. Sewell, H.L. Gardner, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, G. Nicol, E. Newbery, Hookham and Carpenter, R. Faulder, W. Chapman and Son, J. Deighton, D. Walker, J. Anderson, T. Payne, J. Lowndes, P. Macqueen, J. Walker, T. Egerton, T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, R. Edwards, Vernor and Hood, J. Nunn, Murray and Highley, T.N. Longman, Lee and Hurst, and J. White, 1798.

15v. ; 80.

A new edition, in fifteen volumes, greatly enlarged and improved. ...

ESTC T138966

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.