“John Bartlett: (1820-1905) American bookseller, editor, and publisher. Self-taught, Bartlett worked in the University Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he impressed his customers with the breadth of his learning. While at that job, he completed his most famous book, Familiar Quotations (1855), which ran through nine editions in his lifetime and numerous subsequent editions after his death. He also published A New Method of Chess Notation (1857), A Shakespeare Phrase Book, (1881), and A New and Complete Concordance to Shakespeare (1894).
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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