Author talk:William Bates (1821-1884)
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Bates, William, B.A., professor of classics in Queen's College, Birmingham. 1. (Ed.) A Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters, (1830-1838,) drawn by the late Daniel Maclise, R.A., and accompanied by Notices chiefly by the late William Maginn, LL.D. (Republished iroin Eraser's Magazine.) With a Preface and Copious Notes, Biographical, Critical, Bibliographi- cal, and generally Illustrative. Lon., 1873, 4 to ; 2d ed., 1879.
"The book is so full of entertaining gossip and curious literary facts, . . . that the letter-press is almost as at- tractive as the portraiture." Spectator, xlvi. 1657.
2. George Cruikshank, the Artist, the Humourist, and the Man: with Some Account of his Brother Robert: a Critico-Biographical Essay, Birmingham, 1878, 4to.
3. (Ed.) The Loyal Oration, &c., composed by James Parkinson : with an Introductory Notice, Birmingham, 1884, sm. 4to.