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Bartlett (JOHN an American author)

JOHN, an American author and publisher, born in Plymouth, Mass., June 14, 1820; became a publisher in Cambridge in 1836, and senior partner in the Boston publishing house of Little, Brown & Co., in 1878. His works include "Familiar Quotations" (1854); "The Shakespeare Phrase-Book" (1882); "Catalogue of Books on Angling, Including Ichthyology, Pisciculture, etc." (1882); "The Shakespeare Index"; "The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare's Dramatic Works" (1894); and "Poems." He died Dec. 3, 1905.