The new pocket biographical dictionary: containing memoirs of the most eminent persons, both ancient and modern, who have ever adorned this or any other country.

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Main Author: Kingston, John, 1769-1824, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore: Published by J. Kingston, bookseller, 164, Market-street. B.W. Sower & Co., printers. 1811.
Edition:2d ed., improved.
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500 |a On pages i-ii at end: "Proposals are out for publishing by subscription, in three handsome volumes ... a new work, entitled 'Elegant specimens of American and European eloquence' collected by J. Kingston, and others." 
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