THE COMPACT EDITION OF THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.
Complete text reproduced micrographically. In two volumes. Pp. [viii]+1528+[vi]+1529-3150(last blank), printed in multi-columns, appendix, index; roy. 4to; navy/grey cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, boards faintly scuffed; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, a few leaves lightly creased, edges slightly foxed; Oxford University Press, London, 1975. *Lacking the slipcase. Contains the complete and unaltered texts of the twenty-two volume edition of the main Dictionary of National Biography plus the six volumes which make up the twentieth-century Dictionary of National Biography. 'The opportunity has been taken to simplify the process of looking up a biography without prior knowledge of the subject's date of death by the rearrangement of the twentieth-century D.N.B. into a single alphabetical sequence, and by the provision of a single index to the entire work' [publisher's note]. Item #185284
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