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WILLIAM THOMAS LOWNDES (1798-1843)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 78 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM THOMAS LOWNDES (1798-1843)  ,
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English bibliographer, was born about 1798, the son of a
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London bookseller . His
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principal
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work, The Bibliographer's
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Manual of English Literature—the first systematic work of the kind—was published in four volumes in 1834 . It took Lowndes fourteen years to compile, but, despite its merits, brought him neither fame nor
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money . Lowndes, reduced to poverty, subsequently became cataloguer to Henry George Bohn, the bookseller and publisher . In 1839 he published the first parts of The
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British Librarian, designed to supplement his early manual, but owing to failing
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health did not
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complete the work . Lowndes died on the 31st of
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July 1843 .

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