1. The first edition was published 1885–1900 in 63 sections with a volume of errata in 1904. A corrected version incorporating the errata and other significant changes was published in 22 volumes in 1908 and it this version which has been in print ever since. This, plus the twentieth-century supplements and the 1993 volume Missing Persons, is referred to as the DNB in this paper and in common usage.
2. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism;Anderson,1991
3. It is one of the national institutions at which the British are so good. P. Howard, The Times (1985).
4. The project is based at the University of Oxford and has research funding from the British Academy. Production and contributor costs are generously supported by Oxford University Press. See letter by A.F. Pollard to the Times Literary Supplement 26 February 1931 for an early call for the revision of the dictionary.