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Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

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the English clergyman and schoolmaster Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1810–97), supplemented with Brewer’s Reader’s Handbook (1879). Other important works include the Dizionario letterario Bompiani degli autori (1956–57; “Bompiani’s Literary Dictionary of Authors”), the Dizionario letterario Bompiani delle opere (1947–50; “Bompiani’s Literary Dictionary of Works”), Cassell’s Encyclopaedia of Literature (1953), the Oxford


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the English clergyman and schoolmaster Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1810–97), supplemented with Brewer’s Reader’s Handbook (1879). Other important works include the Dizionario letterario Bompiani degli autori (1956–57; “Bompiani’s Literary Dictionary of Authors”), the Dizionario letterario Bompiani delle opere (1947–50; “Bompiani’s Literary Dictionary of Works”), Cassell’s Encyclopaedia of Literature (1953), the Oxford


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