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Filed under: Epitaphs -- Connecticut -- Waterbury- Ancient Burying-Grounds of the Town of Waterbury, Connecticut, Together With Other Records of Church and Town (Waterbury: Mattatuck Historical Society, 1917), ed. by Katharine A. Prichard
Filed under: Epitaphs -- Great Britain- Curious Epitaphs (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1899), ed. by William Andrews
Filed under: Epitaphs -- Scotland -- Banff
Filed under: Epitaphs -- Greece -- Athens
Filed under: Epitaphs -- New York (State) -- Genesee County
Filed under: Epitaphs -- New York (State) -- New York -- Staten Island
Filed under: Epitaphs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia- The Inscriptions in St. Peter's Church Yard, Philadelphia (Camden, NJ: S. Chew, 1879), ed. by William White Bronson and Charles R. Hildeburn
Filed under: Epitaphs -- United States
Filed under: Jewish epitaphs -- Germany- Chachme AHW: Biographien und Grabsteiningschriften der Dajanim, Autoren und der Sonstigen Hervorragenden Männer der Drei Gemeinden Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek (in Hebrew with German translation; Hamburg: Goldschmidt, 1908), by Eduard Duckesz, trans. by Salomon Goldschmidt
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Biography- An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
- A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
- Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
- Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
- The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
- Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
Filed under: Biography -- 19th century
Filed under: Biography -- 20th century
Filed under: Biography -- Bibliography
Filed under: Biography -- Dictionaries- Dictionary of World Biography (fifth edition, c2018), by Barry O. Jones (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1855), by Parke Godwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1856), by Parke Godwin
- Hand-Book of Universal Biography (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Parke Godwin
- An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle; With a Life of Bayle (4 volumes; London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826), by Pierre Bayle
- Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries (15th edition; London: G. Routledge and sons, 1899), ed. by Victor Plarr (page images at HathiTrust)
Filed under: Biography -- Early works to 1800- Vitae Selectorum Aliquot Virorum Qui Doctrinâ, Dignitate, Aut Pietate Inclaruere (in Latin; London: A. G. and J. P., 1681), by William Bates
Filed under: Biography -- Juvenile literature- Crusaders for Freedom (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1962), by Henry Steele Commager, illust. by Mimi Korach (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dawnings of Genius: or, The Early Lives of Some Eminent Persons of the Last Century (London: Charles Knight and Co., 1841), by Anne Pratt (page images at Google)
- Famous Men of Ancient Times (Boston: Brown and Taggard, 1860), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Red Book of Heroes (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by Mrs. Lang, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by Arthur Wallis Mills (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Triumphs of Perseverance and Enterprise (with updated illustrations), by Thomas Cooper (illustrated HTML in the UK)
- Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times, by Elbridge S. Brooks
Filed under: Biography -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
Filed under: Anecdotes- The Circle of Anecdote and Wit: A Choice Collection of Pieces of Humour, including Many Never Before Printed (while credited to Colman on the title page, disowned by him; London: J. Williams, 1826), contrib. by George Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Democritus Ridens: Sive, Campus Recreationum Honestarum, Cum Exorcismo Melancholiae (in Latin, anonymously published but attributed to Lange; Augusburg: I. J. Loteri, 1754), by Johann Peter Lange
- The Kaleidoscope of Anecdotes and Aphorisms (London: R. Bentley, 1851), ed. by Catherine Sinclair
- Mélanges d'Histoire et de Litterature: Recueillis par M. de Vigneul-Marville (3 volumes in French; Rotterdam: E. Yvans, 1700-1702), by Bonaventure d' Argonne
- One Hundred Romances of Real Life (London: Whittaker and Co., 1843), ed. by Leigh Hunt, contrib. by Charlotte Smith and François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at Google)
- The Treasury of Wit, With Comic Engravings (London: Printed for T. Allman, 1836) (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers: A New Collection of Humorous Stories and Anecdotes (3 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by William Patten
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