SAMUEL AUSTIN ALLIBONE
\sˈamjuːl ˈɔːstɪn ˈalɪbˌə͡ʊn], \sˈamjuːl ˈɔːstɪn ˈalɪbˌəʊn], \s_ˈa_m_j_uː_l ˈɔː_s_t_ɪ_n ˈa_l_ɪ_b_ˌəʊ_n]\
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An American bibliographer; born at Philadelphia, April 17, 1816; died at Lucerne, Switzerland, Sept. 2, 1889. He was at one time librarian of the Lenox Library, New York. He was the author of a "Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors" (3 vols., 1854-71; Supplement by Dr. John Foster Kirk, 2 vols., 1891); "Poetical Quotations"; "Prose Quotations", etc. It took twenty years to write the Dictionary, which is familiar in libraries the world over wherever English is spoken.
By Charles Dudley Warner