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ALEXANDER BALLOCH GROSART (1827-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 616 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER BALLOCH See also:GROSART (1827-1899)  , Scottish divine and See also:literary editor, the son of a See also:building contractor, was See also:born at See also:Stirling on the 18th of See also:June 1827 . He was educated at See also:Edinburgh University, and in 1856 became a Presbyterian See also:minister at Kinross . In 1865 he went to See also:Liverpool, and three years later to See also:Blackburn . He resigned from the See also:ministry in 1892, and died at See also:Dublin on the 16th of See also:March 1899 . Dr See also:Grosart is chiefly remembered for his exertions in reprinting much rare Elizabethan literature, a See also:work which he undertook in the first instance from his strong See also:interest in Puritan See also:theology . Among the first writers whose See also:works he edited were the Puritan divines, See also:Richard Sibbes, See also:Thomas See also:Brooks and See also:Herbert See also:Palmer . See also:Editions of See also:Michael See also:Bruce's Poems (1865) and Richard See also:Gilpin's Demonologia sacra (1867) followed . In 1868 he brought out a bibliography of the writings of Richard See also:Baxter, and from that See also:year until 1876 he was occupied in reproducing for private subscribers the " See also:Fuller Worthies Library," a See also:series of See also:thirty-nine volumes which included the works of Thomas Fuller, See also:Sir See also:John See also:Davies, See also:Fulke Greville, See also:Henry See also:Vaughan, See also:Andrew Marvell, See also:George Herbert, Richard See also:Crashaw, John See also:Donne and Sir See also:Philip See also:Sidney . The last four volumes of the series were devoted to the works of many little known and otherwise inaccessible authors . His Occasional Issues of Unique and Very Rare Books (1875–1881) is of the utmost interest to the See also:book-See also:lover . It included among other things the Annalia Dubrensia of See also:Robert See also:Dover . In 1876 still another series, known as the " See also:Chertsey Worthies Library," was begun .

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Nicholas See also:Breton, See also:Francis See also:Quarles, Dr See also:Joseph See also:Beaumont, See also:Abraham See also:Cowley, Henry More and John Davies of See also:Hereford . Grosart was untiring in his See also:enthusiasm and See also:energy for this See also:kind of work . The two last-named series were being produced simultaneously until 1881, and no sooner had they been completed than Grosart began the " Huth Library," so called from the bibliophile Henry Huth, who possessed the originals of many of the reprints . It included the works of Robert See also:Greene, Thomas See also:Nash, See also:Gabriel See also:Harvey, and the See also:prose tracts of Thomas See also:Dekker . He also edited the See also:complete works of See also:Edmund See also:Spenser and See also:Samuel See also:Daniel . From the See also:Townley See also:Hall collection he reprinted several See also:MSS. and edited Sir John See also:Eliot's works, Sir Richard See also:Boyle's See also:Lismore Papers, and various publications for the Chetham Society, the See also:Camden Society and the See also:Roxburghe See also:Club . Dr Grosart's faults of See also:style and occasional inaccuracy do not seriously detract from the immense value of his work . He was unwearied in searching for rare books, and he brought to See also:light much interesting literature, formerly almost inaccessible .

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