I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own. —Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations John
John Bartlett 1820–1905, American compiler and publisher, b. Plymouth, Mass. While he worked in his university book store in Cambridge, he compiled the invaluable Familiar Quotations (1855), which ran through nine editions in his lifetime and has been revised and enlarged several times since. Bartlett joined the publishing firm of Little, Brown & Company in 1863 and in 1878 became senior partner. His Shakespeare concordance (1894) is still a standard work.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: bärt´l from The American Heritage®
WORKS Familiar Quotations , 10th ed. (1919)
The tenth edition of 1919 adds and revises some 300 familiar authors, allowing full-text searching of 11,000 quotations.
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