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JOHN BARTLETT (1820-1905)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN BARTLETT (1820-1905)  ,
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American publisher and compiler, was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the 14th of
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June 182o . He became a bookseller and publisher in Cam-
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bridge, Mass., and from 1865 to 1889, when he retired, was a member of the
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bookselling and
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publishing
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firm of Little, Brown & Co., in Boston . In 1855 he published the first edition of his Familiar Quotations, subsequently greatly
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expanded and long the best-known collection of the sort, and in 1894 (although it had been copyrighted five years before), after many years' labour, he published his New and
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Complete Concordance or Verbal
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Index to Words, Phrases and Passages in the Dramatic
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Works of Shakespeare; with a Supplementary Concordance to the Poems—surpassing any of its predecessors in the number and fulness of its citations from the poet's writings., In all of his
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work he was greatly assisted by his wife, a daughter of Sidney Willard (178o-1856), professor of
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Hebrew at Harvard from 1807 to 1831 . Bartlett died at Cambridge, Mass., on the 3rd of December 1905 .

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