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ALLIBONE, SAMUEL AUSTIN (1816-1889)

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ALLIBONE, See also:SAMUEL See also:AUSTIN (1816-1889) , See also:American author and bibliographer, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 17th of See also:April 1816, of See also:French Huguenot and Quaker ancestry. He was privately educated and for many years was engaged in See also:mercantile business in his native See also:city. He, however, devoted himself chiefly to See also:reading and to See also:bibliographical See also:research; acquired a very unusual knowledge of See also:English and American literature, and is remembered as the compiler of the well-known See also:Critical See also:Dictionary of English Literature and See also:British and American Authors (3 vols.: vol. i. 1854, vols. ii. and iii. 1871). To this, two supplementary volumes, edited by See also:John See also:Foster See also:Kirk, were added in 1891. From 1867 to 1873, and again in 1897-1879, Allibone was See also:book editor and corresponding secretary of the American See also:Sunday School See also:Union; and from 1879 to 1888 he was librarian of the See also:Lenox Library, New See also:York City. He died at See also:Lucerne, See also:Switzerland, on the 2nd of See also:September 1889. In addition to his Critical Dictionary he published three large anthologies and several religious tracts. See the " Memoir" by S. D. M'Connell, an address delivered tefore the See also:Historical Society of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1890).

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