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

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