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EDWARD ARBER (1836– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 323 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:ARBER (1836– )  , See also:English See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:London on the 4th of See also:December 1836 . From 1854 to 1878 he was a clerk in the See also:admiralty; from 1878 to 1881 lecturer on English, under Prof . H . See also:Morley, at University See also:College; and from 1881 to 1894 See also:professor of English at See also:Mason College, See also:Birmingham . From 1894 he lived in London as See also:emeritus professor, being also a See also:fellow of See also:King's College . In 1905 he received the honorary degree of D . Litt. at See also:Oxford . He married in 1869, and had two sons, one of them, E . A . N . See also:Arber, becoming demonstrator in See also:palaeobotany at See also:Cambridge . As a scholarly editor Professor Arber's services to English literature are memorable .

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series of " English Reprints " (1868–1880), by which an accurate See also:text of the See also:works of many English authors, formerly only accessible in rare or expensive See also:editions, was placed within reach of the See also:general public . Among the See also:thirty volumes of the series were See also:Gosson's School of Abuse, See also:Ascham's Toxophilus, Tottel's See also:Miscellany, See also:Naunton's Fragmenta See also:Regalia, &c . It was followed by the " English See also:Scholar's Library " (16 vols.) which included the Works (1884) of See also:Captain See also:John See also:Smith, See also:governor of See also:Virginia, and the Poems (1882) of See also:Richard See also:Barnfield . In his English Garner (8 vols . 187.7–1896) he made an admirable collection of rare old tracts and poems; in 1899–1901 he issued See also:British Anthologies (to vols.), and in 1907 began a series called A See also:Christian Library . He also accomplished single-handed the editing of two vast, and invaluable, English See also:bibliographies: A Transcript of the Registers of the Stationers' See also:Company, 1553–1640 (1875–1894), and The See also:Term Catalogues, 1668–1709; with a number for See also:Easter Term 1711 (1904-1906), edited from the quarterly lists of the See also:book-sellers .

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