Note on the Dictionary THE Dictionary of National Biography comprises the following distinct works: 1. The D.N.B. from the earliest times to 1900, in two alphabetical series, (a) Vols. I-XXI, (b) the Supplementary Vol. XXII. At the end of each volume is an alphabetical index of the lives in that volume and of those in Vol. XXII which belong to the same part of the alphabet. 2. The Twentieth-Century D.N.B. (a) Supplement 1901-1911, three volumes in one. 3. The Concise D.N.B., in one volume, being an Epitome of the main work and its supplements to 1900, in one alphabetical series, followed by the Epitome of the Supplement 1901-1911. |