A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteeth Century. Three VolumesPublished by , Detroit, 1965

Detroit, Michigan: The Gale Research Company, 1965. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound set of three blue buckram cloth-bound hardcover copies, with clean, unmarked interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities, and still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to darker blue labels. Volume I, A-L: [3], 4-1154 pp., and a split rear pastedown; Volume II, M-S: 1155-2326 pp.; Volume III, T-Z: 2327-3140 pp. Three big, fat octavo format hardcovers, with light smudging to bottom tips. A fine reprint edition based upon the 1858-1870 true first editions. Produced on what is called "300-year paper" via photolithography. Double-column texts for easy reading. Samuel Austin Allibone (April 17, 1816 – September 2, 1889) was an American author, editor, and bibliographer. His Wikipedia entry notes his birth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, being a descendant of French Huguenots and Quakers. Privately educated, not successful in business, he turned back to books and bibliography from his vast knowledge of English literature. This A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors was copyrighted first in 1854 and went through multiple editions. The first edition (of only three letters) was put out for reviews, and then in 1859, the second volume appeared in print of a few more letters. "In quick succession the whole of Allibone’s Critical Dictionary then appeared: volume 1 in 1870, expanded to encompass A through L; also in 1870 volume 2 for M through S; and finally volume 3 in 1871, with the 'forty indexes of subjects' that had been promised on the title page of each printing since 1858." Over 40,000 different entries eventually appeared.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.