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[[File:Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 1, title page.jpg|thumb|The title page of the first volume of the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (1885)]]

The '''''Dictionary of National Biography''''' ('''''DNB''''') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from [[History of the British Isles|British history]], published since 1885. The updated '''''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''''' ('''''ODNB''''') was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.

==First series==
Hoping to emulate national [[biography|biographical]] collections published elsewhere in Europe, such as the {{Lang|de|[[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]]}} (1875), in 1882 the publisher [[George Murray Smith|George Smith]] (1824–1901), of [[Smith, Elder & Co.]], planned a universal dictionary that would include biographical entries on individuals from world history. He approached [[Leslie Stephen]], then editor of the ''[[Cornhill Magazine]]'', owned by Smith, to become the editor. Stephen persuaded Smith that the work should focus only on subjects from the United Kingdom and its present and former colonies. An early working title was the ''Biographia Britannica'', the name of [[Biographia Britannica|an earlier eighteenth-century reference work]].

The first volume of the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' appeared on 1 January 1885. In May 1891 Leslie Stephen resigned and [[Sidney Lee]], Stephen's assistant editor from the beginning of the project, succeeded him as editor.<ref name="EB1911">{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Biography |volume=3 |page=954 |last=Gosse |first=Edmund William |authorlink=Edmund Gosse}} The ''DNB'' is described in the last paragraph of this article.</ref> A dedicated team of sub-editors and researchers worked under Stephen and Lee, combining a variety of talents from veteran journalists to young scholars who cut their academic teeth on dictionary articles at a time when postgraduate historical research in British universities was still in its infancy. While much of the dictionary was written in-house, the ''DNB'' also relied on external contributors, who included several respected writers and scholars of the late nineteenth century. By 1900, more than [[List of contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography|700 individuals]] had contributed to the work. Successive volumes appeared quarterly with complete punctuality until midsummer 1900, when the series closed with volume 63.<ref name="EB1911"/> The year of publication, the editor and the range of names in each volume is given [[Dictionary of National Biography#First series contents|below]].

==Supplements and revisions==
[[File:George Smith by John Collier.jpg|right|thumb|[[George Murray Smith]] conceived of the ''DNB'', subsidized it, and saw it finally into print before he died in 1901.]]

Since the scope included only deceased figures, the ''DNB'' was soon extended by the issue of three supplementary volumes, covering subjects who had died between 1885 and 1900 or who had been overlooked in the original alphabetical sequence. The supplements brought the whole work up to the death of [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] on 22 January 1901. Corrections were added.

After issuing a volume of errata in 1904, the dictionary was reissued with minor revisions in 22 volumes in 1908 and 1909; a subtitle said that it covered British history "from the earliest times to the year 1900". In the words of the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition]]'', the dictionary had "proved of inestimable service in elucidating the private annals of the British",<ref name="EB1911"/> providing not only concise lives of the notable deceased, but additionally lists of sources which were invaluable to researchers in a period when few libraries or collections of manuscripts had published catalogues or indices, and the production of indices to periodical literatures was just beginning. Throughout the twentieth century, further volumes were published for those who had died, generally on a decade-by-decade basis, beginning in 1912 with a supplement edited by Lee covering those who died between 1901 and 1911. The dictionary was transferred from its original publishers, Smith, Elder & Co., to [[Oxford University Press]] in 1917. Until 1996, Oxford University Press continued to add further supplements featuring articles on subjects who had died during the twentieth century. These include the 3rd supplement in 1927 (covering those who died between 1912 and 1921), 4th supplement in 1937 (covering those who died between 1922 and 1930), 5th supplement in 1949 (covering those who died between 1931 and 1940), 6th supplement in 1959 (covering those who died between 1941 and 1950), 7th supplement in 1971 (covering those who died between 1951 and 1960), 8th supplement in 1981 (covering those who died between 1961 and 1970), 9th supplement in 1986 (covering those who died between 1971 and 1980), 10th supplement in 1990 (covering those who died between 1981 and 1985), 11th supplement in 1993 (covering missing persons, see below), and 12th supplement in 1996 (covering those who died between 1986 and 1990).

The 63 volumes of the original ''DNB'' included 29,120 lives;<ref name="11thPreface">{{Cite book|language=en|title=The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|date=1993|isbn=0-19-865211-9|pages=v–vii}}</ref> the supplements published between 1912 and 1996 added about 6,000 lives of people who died in the twentieth century. In 1993, a volume containing missing biographies was published.<ref name="11thPreface" /> This had an additional 1,086 lives, selected from over 100,000 suggestions.<ref name="11thPreface" />

[[Leopold George Wickham Legg|L. G. L. Legg]] was editor of the ''DNB'' in the 1940s.<ref>"Legg, Leopold George Wickham" in ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who Was Who 1961–1970]]'' ([[A & C Black]], 1979 reprint, {{ISBN|0-7136-2008-0}})</ref>

In 1966, the [[University of London]] published a volume of corrections, cumulated from the ''[[Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research]]''.<ref>[[University of London]]. ''Corrections and Additions to the Dictionary of National Biography, Cumulated from the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research Covering the Years 1923–1963''. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1966.</ref>

==Concise dictionary==
There were various versions of the ''[[The Concise Dictionary of National Biography|Concise Dictionary of National Biography]]'', which covered everyone in the main work but with much shorter articles; some were only two lines. The last edition, in three volumes, covered everyone who died before 1986.

==''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''==<!-- This section is linked from [[Runcorn]] -->
[[File:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography volumes.jpg|thumb|Some volumes of the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'']]

In the early 1990s, [[Oxford University Press]] committed itself to overhauling the ''DNB''. Work on what was known until 2001 as the ''New Dictionary of National Biography'', or ''New DNB'', began in 1992 under the editorship of [[Colin Matthew]], professor of Modern History at the [[University of Oxford]]. Matthew decided that no subjects from the old dictionary would be excluded, however insignificant the subjects appeared to a late twentieth-century eye; that a minority of shorter articles from the original dictionary would remain in the new version in revised form, but most would be rewritten; and that room would be made for about 14,000 new subjects. Suggestions for new subjects were solicited through questionnaires placed in libraries and universities and, as the 1990s advanced, online. The suggestions were assessed by the editor, the 12 external consultant editors, and several hundred associate editors and in-house staff.  Digitization of the ''DNB'' was performed by the Alliance Photosetting Company in [[Puducherry (city)|Pondicherry]], India.<ref name="Warren">{{cite journal |last1=Warren |first1=Christopher N. |title=Historiography's Two Voices: Data Infrastructure and History at Scale in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) |url=http://culturalanalytics.org/2018/11/historiographys-two-voices-data-infrastructure-and-history-at-scale-in-the-oxford-dictionary-of-national-biography-odnb/ |journal=Journal of Cultural Analytics |access-date=6 March 2019 |doi=10.22148/16.028 |year=2018 |doi-access=free |archive-date=7 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307062600/http://culturalanalytics.org/2018/11/historiographys-two-voices-data-infrastructure-and-history-at-scale-in-the-oxford-dictionary-of-national-biography-odnb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The new dictionary would cover British history, "broadly defined" (including, for example, subjects from [[Roman Britain]], the [[Thirteen Colonies|United States of America before its independence]], and from [[British Empire|Britain's former colonies]], provided they were functionally part of the Empire and not of "the indigenous culture", as stated in the Introduction), up to 31 December 2000. The research project was conceived as a collaborative one, with in-house staff co-ordinating the work of nearly 10,000 contributors internationally. It would remain selective&nbsp;– there would be no attempt to include all [[members of parliament]], for example – but would seek to include significant, influential or notorious figures from the whole canvas of the life of the [[United Kingdom]] and its former colonies, overlaying the decisions of the late-nineteenth-century editors with the interests of late-twentieth-century scholarship in the hope that "the two epochs in collaboration might produce something more useful for the future than either epoch on its own", but acknowledging also that a final definitive selection is impossible to achieve.

Matthew's dedication to a digitized ODNB included what Christopher Warren calls Matthew's "data internationalism".<ref name="Warren" /> In a 1996 essay, Matthew prophesied, "Who can doubt that in the course of the next century, as nationality in Europe gives way to [[European Union]], so national reference works, at least in Europe, will do so also....Just as the computer is collapsing national library catalogues in a single world-wide series, so I am sure that in the course of the next fifty years we will see the gradual aggregation of our various dictionaries of national biography. We will be much blamed by our users if we do not!"<ref name="Warren" />

Following Matthew's death in October 1999, he was succeeded as editor by another Oxford historian, [[Brian Harrison (historian)|Brian Harrison]], in January 2000. The new dictionary, now known as the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (or ''ODNB''), was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes in print at a price of £7,500, and in an online edition for subscribers. Most UK holders of a current library card can access it online free of charge. In subsequent years, the print edition has been obtainable new for a much lower price.<ref>E.g., at least one U.K. bookseller in 2012 was asking £1738.44 (US$2842.42) including free worldwide delivery: {{Cite web |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy. From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000 (Hardback) |url=http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=2694312245&searchurl=n%3D200000169%26tn%3DOxford%2BDictionary%2Bof%2BNational%2BBiography%26x%3D64%26y%3D8 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722052148/http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=2694312245&searchurl=n%3D200000169%26tn%3DOxford%2BDictionary%2Bof%2BNational%2BBiography%26x%3D64%26y%3D8 |archive-date=22 July 2012 |website=AbeBooks}}</ref> At publication, the 2004 edition had 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives, including entries on all subjects included in the old ''DNB'' (the old ''DNB'' entries on these subjects may be accessed separately through a link to the "DNB Archive" – many of the longer entries are still highly regarded). A small permanent staff remain in Oxford to update and extend the coverage of the online edition. Harrison was succeeded as editor by another Oxford historian, [[Lawrence Goldman]], in October 2004. The first online update was published on 4 January 2005, including subjects who had died in 2001. A further update, including subjects from all periods, followed on 23 May 2005, and another on 6 October 2005. New subjects who died in 2002 were added to the online dictionary on 5 January 2006, with continuing releases in May and October in subsequent years following the precedent of 2005. The ''ODNB'' also includes some new biographies on people who died before the ''DNB'' was published and are not included in the original ''DNB'', because they have become notable since the ''DNB'' was published through the work of more recent historians, for example [[William Eyre (leveller)|William Eyre]] (fl. 1634–1675).

The online version has an advanced search facility, allowing a search for people by area of interest, religion and "Places, Dates, Life Events". This accesses an electronic index that cannot be directly viewed.

Response to the new dictionary has been for the most part positive, but in the months following publication there was occasional criticism of the dictionary in some British newspapers and periodicals for reported factual inaccuracies.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Stefan Collini |date= 20 January 2005 |url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n02/coll01_.html |title=Our Island Story |magazine=[[London Review of Books]] |volume=27 |issue=2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090702113922/http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n02/coll01_.html |archive-date= Jul 2, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Vanessa Thorpe |date=6 March 2005 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/mar/06/books.highereducation |title=At £7,500 for the set, you'd think they'd get their facts right |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821215513/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1431473,00.html |archive-date= Aug 21, 2008 }}</ref> However, the number of articles publicly queried in this way was small – only 23 of the 50,113 articles published in September 2004, leading to fewer than 100 substantiated factual amendments.{{fact|date=December 2021}} These and other queries received since publication are being considered as part of an ongoing programme of assessing proposed corrections or additions to existing subject articles, which can, when approved, be incorporated into the online edition of the dictionary.  In 2005, The [[American Library Association]] awarded the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' its prestigious [[Dartmouth Medal]]. A general review of the dictionary was published in 2007.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Dictionary or Encyclopaedia? |journal=[[The Historical Journal]] |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=991–1006|doi=10.1017/S0018246X07006474 |year=2007 |last1=Raven |first1=James |s2cid=162650444 }}</ref>

[[Sir David Cannadine]] took over the editorship from October 2014.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://global.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/contact/press/3743987/| title = David Cannadine is the new Editor of the Oxford DNB| date = 1 October 2014| access-date = 21 February 2015| publisher = OUP| archive-date = 22 February 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150222022357/http://global.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/contact/press/3743987/| url-status = dead}}</ref>

==First series contents==<!-- This section is linked from [[Dictionary of National Biography]] -->

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Contents of each volume of the first series with year of publication and editor.
! Volume
! Names
! Year published
! Editor
|-
| 1
| Abbadie – Anne

| rowspan="4" | 1885
| rowspan="21" | Stephen
|-
| 2
| Annesley – Baird
|-
| 3
| Baker – Beadon
|-
| 4
| Beal – Biber
|-
| 5
| Bicheno – Bottisham
| rowspan="4" | 1886
|-
| 6
| Bottomley – Browell
|-
| 7
| Brown – Burthogge
|-
| 8
| Burton – Cantwell
|-
| 9
| Canute – Chaloner
| rowspan="4" | 1887
|-
| 10
| Chamber – Clarkson
|-
| 11
| Clater – Condell
|-
| 12
| Conder – Craigie
|-
| 13
| Craik – Damer
| rowspan="4" | 1888
|-
| 14
| Damon – D'Eyncourt
|-
| 15
| Diamond – Drake
|-
| 16
| Drant – Edridge
|-
| 17
| Edward – Erskine
| rowspan="4" | 1889
|-
| 18
| Esdale – Finan
|-
| 19
| Finch – Forman
|-
| 20
| Forrest – Garner
|-
| 21
| Garnett – Gloucester
| rowspan="4" | 1890
|-
| 22
| Glover – Gravet
| rowspan="5" | Stephen & Lee
|-
| 23
| Gray – Haighton
|-
| 24
| Hailes – Harriott
|-
| 25
| Harris – Henry I
| rowspan="4" | 1891
|-
| 26
| Henry II – Hindley
|-
| 27
| Hindmarsh – Hovenden
| rowspan="37" | Sidney Lee
|-
| 28
| Howard – Inglethorpe
|-
| 29
| Inglish – John
| rowspan="4" | 1892
|-
| 30
| Johnes – Kenneth
|-
| 31
| Kennett – Lambart
|-
| 32
| Lambe – Leigh
|-
| 33
| Leighton – Lluelyn
| rowspan="4" | 1893
|-
| 34
| Llywd – MacCartney
|-
| 35
| MacCarwell – Maltby
|-
| 36
| Malthus – Mason
|-
| 37
| Masquerier – Millyng
| rowspan="4" | 1894
|-
| 38
| Milman – More
|-
| 39
| Morehead – Myles
|-
| 40
| Myllar – Nicholls
|-
| 41
| Nichols – O'Dugan
| rowspan="4" | 1895
|-
| 42
| O'Duinn – Owen
|-
| 43
| Owens – Passelewe
|-
| 44
| Paston – Percy
|-
| 45
| Pereira – Pockrich
| rowspan="4" | 1896
|-
| 46
| Pocock – Puckering
|-
| 47
| Puckle – Reidfurd
|-
| 48
| Reilly – Robins
|-
| 49
| Robinson – Russell
| rowspan="4" | 1897
|-
| 50
| Russen – Scobell
|-
| 51
| Scoffin – Sheares
|-
| 52
| Shearman – Smirke
|-
| 53
| Smith – Stanger
| rowspan="4" | 1898
|-
| 54
| Stanhope – Stovin<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati54stepuoft/|title=Dictionary of national biography|date=1898|publisher=[[Smith, Elder & Co.]]|editor-last=Lee|editor-first=Sidney|volume=54|location=[[London]]}}</ref>
|-
| 55
| Stow – Taylor
|-
| 56
| Teach – Tollet
|-
| 57
| Tom – Tytler
| rowspan="4" | 1899
|-
| 58
| Ubaldini – Wakefield
|-
| 59
| Wakeman – Watkins
|-
| 60
| Watson – Whewell
|-
| 61
| Whichcord – Williams
| rowspan="3" | 1900
|-
| 62
| Williamson – Worden
|-
| 63
| Wordsworth – Zuylestein
|}

==See also==
* [[List of contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography|List of contributors to the ''Dictionary of National Biography'']]
* [[Biographical dictionary]]
* [[Oxford Biography Index]]
* [[Historiography of the United Kingdom]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/ Oxford DNB in The Wikipedia Library]
{{Wikisource|Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900|''Dictionary of National Biography'', 1885–1900}}
*{{Official|http://www.oxforddnb.com/}} (subscription required)
*[http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/ ''About the Oxford DNB'', Oxford University Press site]
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/DNB/ Corrections to the ''ODNB'' submitted and peer-reviewed by members of soc.medieval/Gen-Med]
;DNB
* [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2000.01.0013 ''Index and Epitome to the Dictionary of National Biography'', 1903, Perseus Digital Library]
*"[[s:Studies of a Biographer/National Biography|National Biography]]" in [[Leslie Stephen]]'s ''Studies of a Biographer'', vol. 1
*[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabook?id=dnb Online volumes of the first and second series], selected from [[Internet Archive]] and [[Google Books]] at [[The Online Books Page]].

{|align="center" class="wikitable"
|+The volumes of the first edition of the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' in various file formats in {{nowrap|[[the Internet Archive]]}}
!Volume ||Date ||From ||To ||Notes
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati00leesuoft Index and Epitome] ||1903 || || ||The Index, with a summary for each entry.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio43stepgoog Volume 1] ||1885 ||Abbadie ||Anne ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnat02stepuoft Volume 2] ||1885 ||Anneslya ||Baird ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati03stepuoft Volume 3] ||1885 ||Baker ||Beadon ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati04stepuoft Volume 4] ||1885 ||Beal ||Biber ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati05stepuoft Volume 5] ||1886 ||Bicheno ||Bottisham ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati06stepuoft Volume 6] ||1886 ||Bottomley ||Browell ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati07stepuoft Volume 7] ||1886 ||Brown ||Burthogge ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati08stepuoft Volume 8] ||1886 ||Burton ||Cantwell ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio50stepgoog Volume 9] ||1887 ||Canute ||Chaloner ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio30stepgoog Volume 10] ||1887 ||Chamber ||Clarkson ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati11stepuoft Volume 11] ||1887 ||Clater ||Condell ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati12stepuoft Volume 12] ||1887 ||Conder ||Craigie ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati13stepuoft Volume 13] ||1888 ||Craik ||Damer ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati14stepuoft Volume 14] ||1888 ||Damon ||D'Eyncourt ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati15stepuoft Volume 15] ||1888 ||Diamond ||Drake ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati16stepuoft Volume 16] ||1888 ||Drant ||Edridge ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio21stepgoog Volume 17] ||1889 ||Edward ||Erskine ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio23stepgoog Volume 18] ||1889 ||Esdaile ||Finan ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati19stepuoft Volume 19] ||1889 ||Finch ||Forman ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati20stepuoft Volume 20] ||1889 ||Forest ||Garner ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati21stepuoft Volume 21] ||1890 ||Garnett ||Gloucester ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati22stepuoft Volume 22] ||1890 ||Glover ||Gravet ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati22lond Volume 22 supplement] ||1901<!-- from prefatory note --> ||Glover ||Gravet ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati23stepuoft Volume 23] ||1890 ||Gray ||Haighton ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati25stepuoft Volume 24] ||1890 ||Hailes ||Harriott ||Incorrectly labeled as Volume 25
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio51stepgoog Volume 25] ||1891 ||Harris ||Henry I ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio46stepgoog Volume 26] ||1891 ||Henry II ||Hindley ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/DictionaryOfNationalBiographyVolume27 Volume 27] ||1891 ||Hindmarsh ||Hovenden || 
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati28stepuoft Volume 28] ||1891 ||Howard ||Inglethorp ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati29stepuoft Volume 29] ||1892 ||Inglis ||John ||Truncated at p.&nbsp;279, at Jeffreys G.
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio54stepgoog Volume 30] ||1892 ||Johnes ||Kenneth ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio47stepgoog Volume 31] ||1892 ||Kennett ||Lambart ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati32stepuoft Volume 32] ||1892 ||Lambre ||Leigh ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio24stepgoog Volume 33] ||1893 ||Leighton ||Lluelyn ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio57stepgoog Volume 34] ||1893 ||Llwyd ||MacCartney ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio35stepgoog Volume 35] ||1893 ||MacCarwell ||Maltby ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati36stepuoft Volume 36] ||1893 ||Malthus ||Mason ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati37stepuoft Volume 37] ||1894 ||Masquerier ||Millyng ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati38stepuoft Volume 38] ||1894 ||Milman ||More ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati39stepuoft Volume 39] ||1894 ||Morehead ||Myles ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati40stepuoft Volume 40] ||1894 ||Myllar ||Nichols ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati41stepuoft Volume 41] ||1895 ||Nichols ||O'Dugan ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio37stepgoog Volume 42] ||1895 ||O'Duinn ||Owen ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati43stepuoft Volume 43] ||1895 ||Owens ||Passelewe ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati44stepuoft Volume 44] ||1895 ||Paston ||Percy ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati45stepuoft Volume 45] ||1896 ||Pereira ||Pochrich ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati46stepuoft Volume 46] ||1896 ||Pocock ||Puckering ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati47stepuoft Volume 47] ||1896 ||Puckle ||Reidfurd ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati48stepuoft Volume 48] ||1896 ||Reily ||Robins ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati49stepuoft Volume 49] ||1897 ||Robinson ||Russell ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati50stepuoft Volume 50] ||1897 ||Russen ||Scobell ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati019324mbp Volume 51] ||1897 ||Scoffin ||Sheares ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio01leegoog Volume 52] ||1897 ||Shearman ||Smirke ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati019312mbp Volume 53] ||1898 ||Smith ||Stanger ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati54stepuoft Volume 54] ||1898 ||Stanhope ||Stovin ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati55stepuoft Volume 55] ||1898 ||Stow ||Taylor ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati56stepuoft Volume 56] ||1898 ||Teach ||Tollet ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati57stepuoft Volume 57] ||1899 ||Tom ||Tytler ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati58stepuoft Volume 58] ||1899 ||Ubaldini ||Wakefield ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati59stepuoft Volume 59] ||1899 ||Wakeman ||Watkins ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati60stepuoft Volume 60] ||1899 ||Watson ||Whewell ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati61stepuoft Volume 61] ||1900 ||Whichcord ||Williams ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionarynatio13stepgoog Volume 62] ||1900 ||Williamson ||Worden ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati63stepuoft Volume 63] ||1900 ||Wordsworth ||Zuylestein ||
|-
!colspan=5|Supplementary volumes for the first edition
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati01leesuoft Supplement Volume 1] ||1901 ||Abbott ||Childers ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati02leesuoft Supplement Volume 2] ||1901 ||Chippendale ||Hoste ||
|-
|[https://archive.org/details/p3dictionaryofna01leesuoft Supplement Volume 3] ||1901 ||How ||Woodward ||
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|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati00stepuoft Errata] ||1904 || || ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ozc8AAAAIAAJ Volume 1] ||1908 ||Addadie ||Beadon ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=2vo7AAAAIAAJ Volume 2] ||1908 ||Beal ||Browell ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=9AVbAAAAIAAJ Volume 3] ||1908 ||Brown ||Chaloner ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=BwtbAAAAIAAJ Volume 4] ||1908 ||Chamber ||Craigie ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=kiE8AAAAIAAJ Volume 5] ||1908 ||Craik ||Drake ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=IA5bAAAAIAAJ Volume 6] ||1908 ||Drant ||Finan ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=kiI8AAAAIAAJ Volume 7] ||1908 ||Finch ||Gloucester ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=LBFbAAAAIAAJ Volume 8] ||1908 ||Glover ||Harriott ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=0Cg8AAAAIAAJ Volume 9] ||1908 ||Harris ||Hoveden ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=eRhbAAAAIAAJ Volume 10] ||1908 ||Howard ||Kenneth ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gio8AAAAIAAJ Volume 11] ||1909 ||Kennett ||Lluelyn ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=Cys8AAAAIAAJ Volume 12] ||1909 ||Llwyd ||Mason ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=phRbAAAAIAAJ Volume 13] ||1909 ||Masquerier ||Myles ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=pxpbAAAAIAAJ Volume 14] ||1909 ||Myllar ||Owen ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=zRBbAAAAIAAJ Volume 15] ||1909 ||Owens ||Pockrich ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=SCw8AAAAIAAJ Volume 16] ||1909 ||Pockock ||Robins ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=lC08AAAAIAAJ Volume 17] ||1909 ||Robinson ||Sheares ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=DC48AAAAIAAJ Volume 18] ||1909 ||Shearman ||Stovin ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=HBVbAAAAIAAJ Volume 19] ||1909 ||Stow ||Tytler ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=xS88AAAAIAAJ Volume 20] ||1909 ||Ubaldini ||Whewell ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=6SI8AAAAIAAJ Volume 21] ||1909 ||Whichcord ||Zuylestein ||
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|[https://books.google.com/books?id=8iU8AAAAIAAJ Volume 22] ||1909 || || ||
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|[https://archive.org/details/pt1dictionaryofn02leesuoft Second supplement Volume 1] || 1912 || Abbey || Eyre ||
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|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati02stepuoft Second supplement Volume 2] || 1912 || Faed || Muybridge ||
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|[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati23lees Second supplement Volume 3] || 1912 || Neil || Young || 
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|[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000008631039&view=1up&seq=9&skin=2021 Second supplement] || 1927 || || ||
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