Edward Arber

Edward Arber (born December 4, 1836 in London , † November 23, 1912 ) was an English scholar and author.

Life

From 1854 to 1878 he worked as an employee of the British Admiralty . He married in 1869 and had two sons. His son EAN Arber was a professor of paleobotany at the University of Cambridge .

Academic resume

In 1858 he began studying at King's College London . From 1878 to 1881 he taught English literature and language at University College London in the department of Prof. Henry Morley . From 1881 to 1894 he was Professor of English at Mason College, Birmingham, a forerunner of the University of Birmingham . From 1894 he lived in London as Professor Emeritus and Fellow of King's College London. In 1905 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford .

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Arber made significant contributions to English literature . His name is primarily associated with the publication of inexpensive new editions of classic English literature, English Reprints (1868–1880). The thirty volumes in this series include Stephen Gosson's School of Abuse , Roger Ascham's Toxophilus , Tottel's Miscellany , and Robert Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia . He later published 16 volumes in the English Scholar's Library . This included a work by Captain John Smith (1884), Governor of Virginia and the poems of Richard Barnfield (1882). From 1877 to 1890 he published a collection of old poems and treatises in eight volumes under the title English Garner . He published British Anthologies from 1899 to 1901, and in 1907 began editing the A Christian Library series .

Of particular importance to English literary studies is his edition of the Stationers 'Company Records : A Transcript of the Registers of the Stationers' Company , 1553–1640 (1875–1894) and The Term Catalogs , 1668–1709 / 11.

Web links

Literature by and about Edward Arber in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

↑ Who's Who 1914
^ Edward Arber (Ed.): A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1640 AD 5 volumes, private print, London 1875-1894 ( digitized from Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 ).
^ Edward Arber (Ed.): The Term Catalogs, 1668-1709 AD, with a Number for Easter Term, 1711 AD A Contemporary Bibliography of English Literature in the reigns of Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Anne. Volumes 1–3, Edward Arber, London 1903/1905/1906 ( digital copies of Volume 1 , Volume 2 and Volume 3 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Arber, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English scholar and author
DATE OF BIRTH	4th December 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	November 23, 1912

[1] Who's Who 1914

[2] Edward Arber (Ed.): A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1640 AD 5 volumes, private print, London 1875-1894 ( digitized from Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 ).

[3] Edward Arber (Ed.): The Term Catalogs, 1668-1709 AD, with a Number for Easter Term, 1711 AD A Contemporary Bibliography of English Literature in the reigns of Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Anne. Volumes 1–3, Edward Arber, London 1903/1905/1906 ( digital copies of Volume 1 , Volume 2 and Volume 3 ).