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Alexander Balloch Grosart
(1827-1899) Was a minister of the English Presbyterian Church. He wrote Lives of various Puritan divines, edited their works, and also issued editions, with Lives, of the poems of Michael Bruce (q.v.) and Robert Fergusson (q.v.). But his chief service to literature was his reprints, with notes, of rare Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, including Fuller's Worthies Library, 39 volumes (1868-76), Occasional Issues of Unique and Very Rare Books, 38 volumes 1875-81, Huth Library, 33 volumes (1886), Spenser's Works, 10 volumes, Daniel's Works, etc.
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