Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men
The Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men comprised ten volumes of Dionysius Lardner’s 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Aimed at the self-educating middle class, this encyclopedia was written during the 19th-century literary revolution in Britain. Most of them were written by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley. The series eventually contained 61 titles in 133 volumes and customers could purchase...