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English Worthies
Publisher: Longmans, Green, & Co. Country: United Kingdom. Date: 1885-97.
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company. Country: United States. Date: 1885-97.
Charles Darwin
by Grant Allen
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1885 (English Worthies)
Hardback.
Series description and list of published and projected volumes.
Source: Charles Darwin by Grant Allen. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1885 (English Worthies).
ENGLISH WORTHIES (LONGMANS, GREEN/D. APPLETON)
Series Note: The editor of the English Worthies series was Andrew Lang, M.A.
A description of this series is found in Charles Darwin by Grant Allen, New York: D. Appleton, 1885 (English Worthies):
MESSRS. D. APPLETON & CO. are the American publishers of a new series of small volumes entitled "English "Worthies," consisting of short lives of Englishmen of influence and distinction, past and present, military, naval, literary, scientific, legal, ecclesiastical, social, etc. Each biography will be intrusted to a writer specially acquainted with the historical period in which his hero lived, and in special sympathy, as it were, with his subject. (...)
In small 12mo volumes, cloth. Price, 75 cents per vol.
New York: D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 1, 8, & 6 Bond Street
Title / Author / Year of Publication in U.K.
Admiral Blake
by David Hannay
1897
George Canning
by Frank H. Hill
1888
Claverhouse
by Mowbray Morris
1897
Charles Darwin
by Grant Allen
1885
Ben Jonson
by John Addington Symonds
1888
Marlborough
by George Saintsbury
1885
Raleigh
by Edmund Gosse
1886
Shaftesbury (The First Earl)
by H. D. Traill
1888
Richard Steele
by Austin Dobson
1886
Titles Announced as "In Preparation" but Never Issued
Drake
by W. H. Pollock
Latimer
by Canon Creighton
Sir. T. Moore
by J. Cotter Morison
Lord Peterborough
by Walter Besant
Isaac Walton
by Andrew Lang
Wellington
by R. Louis Stevenson
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