Minor Lives; a collection of biographies. Annotated and with an introd. on John Nichols and the antiquarian and anecdotal movements of the late eighteenth century.

by John Nichols

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401 pages, Hardcover

First published November 18, 1971

About the author

John Nichols was an English printer, author and antiquary. He is remembered as an influential editor of the Gentleman's Magazine for nearly 40 years; author of a monumental county history of Leicestershire; author of two compendia of biographical material relating to his literary contemporaries; and as one of the agents behind the first complete publication of Domesday Book in 1783.