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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 See also:BARTLETT (1820-1905)  , See also:American publisher and compiler, was See also:born in See also:Plymouth, See also:Massachusetts, on the 14th of See also:June 182o . He became a bookseller and publisher in See also:Cam-See also:bridge, See also:Mass., and from 1865 to 1889, when he retired, was a member of the See also:bookselling and See also:publishing See also:firm of Little, See also:Brown & Co., in See also:Boston . In 1855 he published the first edition of his See also:Familiar Quotations, subsequently greatly See also:expanded and See also: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 See also:Complete See also:Concordance or Verbal See also:Index to Words, Phrases and Passages in the Dramatic See also:Works of See also: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 See also:work he was greatly assisted by his wife, a daughter of See also:Sidney See also:Willard (178o-1856), See also:professor of See also:Hebrew at Harvard from 1807 to 1831 . See also:Bartlett died at See also:Cambridge, Mass., on the 3rd of See also:December 1905 .

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