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William Thomas Lowndes (c. 1798 – 31 July 1843),
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bibliographer Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...
, was born about 1798, the son of a
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bookseller. His principal work, ''The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature''—the first systematic work of the kind—was published in four volumes in 1834. It took Lowndes fourteen years to compile, but, despite its merits, brought him neither fame nor money. "For years Lowndes was the national British bibliography." It is regarded as a "bibliographical classic" although "pleasurably more scattershot than systematic." Lowndes, reduced to poverty, subsequently became cataloguer to
Henry George Bohn Henry George Bohn (4 January 179622 August 1884) was a British publisher. He is principally remembered for the ''Bohn's Libraries'' which he inaugurated. These were begun in 1846, targeted the mass market, and comprised editions of standard works ...
, the bookseller and publisher. In 1839 he published the first parts of ''The British Librarian'', designed to supplement his early manual, but owing to failing health did not complete the work.


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Further reading

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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
', Volume 6: Appendix, Bell & Daldy, 1865. * * Francesco Cordasco, "William Lowndes and The Bibliographer's Manual: A Retrospective Essay," in: Lowndes, ''The Bibliographer's Manual'' (1967 reprint), 1:v-xii. * David A. Stoker, "William Thomas Lowndes," in: ''Nineteenth-Century British Book-Collectors and Bibliographers'', ed. William Baker and
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(1997), pp. 265–70.


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The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature, Vol. 1
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