What is Bartlett's Familiar Quotations?
{{Infobox book | name = Bartlett's Familiar Quotations | title_orig = | translator = | image = BartlettsQuotations.jpg | image_size = 50px | caption = | author = [[John Bartlett (publisher)|John Bartlett]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = | series = | genre = | published = 1855 [[Little, Brown and Company]] | media_type = | pages = | isbn = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations''''' (often called just '''''Bartlett's''''') is an American reference [[book]]. It is a collection of [[quotation]]s. The book was first printed in 1855. Its eighteenth edition was published in 2012. The quotations are listed by the name of the writer. That is different from other books of quotations that list by subject. The writers are listed by date of birth, not alphabetically. Quotations are arranged in order by time within each writer's entry. The book has an index of the main words used in the quotations. It gives the source of each quotation. ==History== [[John Bartlett (publisher)|John Bartlett]] ran the University Book Store in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. People often asked him for information on quotations. He began a book of them for reference. In 1855, he privately printed his book as ''A Collection of Familiar Quotations''. This first edition had 258 pages of quotations by 169 authors. Many of the quotations were from the [[Bible]], [[William Shakespeare]], and the great [[English poetry|English poets]]. The book was a great success. Bartlett issued three more editions before joining the [[Boston]] publishing firm of [[Little, Brown, and Company]]. Bartlett supervised nine editions of the work before his death in 1905. The tenth edition (1914) was edited by [[Nathan Haskell Dole]]. It began with quotations