- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
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a popular US book of quotations (= passages from books, poems, plays, etc). It was first published in 1855 by John Bartlett (1820–1905) and now contains more than 22 000 quotations.
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Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations — often simply called Bartlett s , is an American reference work that is the longest lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its seventeenth edition, published in 2003. The … Wikipedia
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Bartlett,John — Bartlett, John. 1820 1905. American publisher and editor who compiled Familiar Quotations (1855) and a Shakespearean concordance (1894). * * * … Universalium
Bartlett, John — born June 14, 1820, Plymouth, Mass., U.S. died Dec. 3, 1905, Cambridge, Mass. U.S. bookseller and editor. Bartlett was an employee and then owner of the Harvard University Bookstore. In 1855 he published the work for which he is best known,… … Universalium
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Bartlett, John — (14 jun. 1820, Plymouth, Mass., EE.UU.–3 dic. 1905, Cambridge, Mass.). Librero y editor estadounidense. Bartlett fue empleado y después dueño de la Librería de la Universidad de Harvard. En 1855 publicó su obra más conocida, Familiar Quotations… … Enciclopedia Universal
The Yale Book of Quotations — is a quotations collection noted for its focus on modern and American quotations and for its high level of scholarship and reliability. Edited by Fred R. Shapiro, it was published by Yale University Press in 2006 with a foreword by Joseph Epstein … Wikipedia
