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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Justin Winsor (1831–1897)

Winsor, Justin. An American historian and librarian; born at Boston, Jan. 2, 1831; died at Cambridge, Oct. 22, 1897. He was librarian of the Boston Public Library, 1868–77, and of Harvard University, 1877–97. He published: ‘Bibliography of Original Quartos and Folios of Shakespeare’ (1875); ‘Reader’s Handbook of the American Revolution’ (1880); ‘Memorial History of Boston’ (edited: 4 vols., 1880–82); ‘Narrative and Critical History of America’ (edited: 8 vols., 1884–89); ‘Christopher Columbus’ (1891); ‘From Cartier to Frontenac’ (1894); ‘The Mississippi Basin’; and ‘The Struggle in America between England and France’ (1895).