The Quote Sleuth: A Manual for the Tracer of Lost Quotations

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University of Illinois Press, 1990 - 194 pages
Our quest to locate and verify lost
quotations will be made immeasurably easier thanks to the guidelines and helpful
hints in The Quote Sleuth. Anthony W. Shipps, a noted practitioner of
the noble art of quotation tracing, devotes an entire book to the tools and
methods used in the identification of the sources of quotations.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
General Dictionaries of Quotations
27
SingleSubject and SpecialCategory Quotation
127
SingleAuthor Quotation Books
138
Dictionaries of the English Language
145
Names Titles Clues
172
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