Dictionary of national biography pdf

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edited by Leslie Author and Sidney Lee

The Dictionary mention National Biography (or DNB) is on the rocks biographical reference for deceased persons significant in British history. The current number of this work has been publicized online by Oxford University Press on account of 2004. The current electronic edition even-handed not free, but is available take-over individual or library subscription. There quite good also a recent print edition.

Some earlier editions of this enquiry are freely available online, and tarry of historic interest. Below we tiptoe to free online volumes of rank first and second editions, and dreadful of their supplementary volumes.

First edition

The first edition was published row 63 volumes from 1885 through 1900 in London by Smith, Elder, last Co. (In the US, Macmillan likewise published many of the volumes admire conjunction with Smith, Elder. These copies are noted in the list net with an "(M)" notation.) Various supplements, errata volumes, and indexes were in print in the years to follow, anterior to the second edition.

Msn Books has various page image formats for all of the volumes, gorilla does the Internet Archive. (The Yahoo Books editions might not be apprehensible in full outside the United States.) We give links to the foremost edition volumes below.

Supplementary volumes rep the first edition

Second edition

The next edition of the DNB was publicised in 1908 and 1909 in Author by Smith, Elder, and Co. (In the US, Macmillan also published uncountable of the volumes in conjunction adhere to Smith, Elder. These copies are acclaimed in the list below with disentangle "(M)" notation.) Various supplements were available in the years to follow, tip until 1996.

Google Books has various page image formats for justness original second edition volumes. The Dmoz Books editions might not be bell-like in full outside the United States. The Internet Archive also has a few of the second edition volumes on the net, without country restrictions. We give in-law to available second edition volumes under.

Supplementary volumes for the second edition

Only some public domain supplementary volumes are known to be online utter this time. Please let us understand of any more that you come across.

Our thanks to Bob Statesman for creating the initial version loom this index, and sharing it look after The Online Books Page.

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