ALEXANDER BALLOCH GROSART BIOGRAPHY

GROSART, ALEXANDER BALLOCH (1827-1899). —Was a minister of the English Presbyterian Church. He wrote Lives of various Puritan divines, ed. their works, and also issued ed., 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 vols. (1868-76), Occasional Issues of Unique and Very Rare Books , 38 vols. 1875-81, Huth Library , 33 vols. (1886), Spenser's Works , 10 vols., Daniel's Works , etc.