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Collection of interesting biography
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Description	Containing, I. The life of S.Johnson ... abridged, principally, from Boswell's celebrated memoirs of the Doctor: II. The life of Mr. Elwes, - (abridged) - by Captain Topham: III. The life of Captain Cook, - (abridged) - by Dr. Kippis. / The whole revised and abridged by Sir Andrew Anecdote..
Shelfmark	ABS.1.90.182
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1792 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > Ireland > Dublin > Dublin (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Biographies (literary works) Abridgements
Person / organisation:	Boswell, James, 1740-1795 [Author] Topham, Edward, 1751-1820 [Author] Kippis, Andrew, 1725-1795 [Author] Wogan, Patrick [Bookseller] Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 [Subject of text] Elwes, John, 1714-1789 [Subject of text] Cook, James, 1728-1779 [Subject of text]
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Description	Thousands of printed books from the Antiquarian Books of Scotland collection which dates from 1641 to the 1980s. The collection consists of 14,800 books which were published in Scotland or have a Scottish connection, e.g. through the author, printer or owner. Subjects covered include sport, education, diseases, adventure, occupations, Jacobites, politics and religion. Among the 29 languages represented are English, Gaelic, Italian, French, Russian and Swedish.