In his 1961 abridgement, John Tyler Bonner wrote that Chapter IX "On the theory of transformations, or the comparison of related forms" is "the most celebrated chapter".
Letters of his calling for abridgement of colonial rights were published in 1773, further intensifying dislike of him in the colony.
David Kynaston's City of London (Chatto & Windus, £30) is, apart from all else, an immensely useful book: a single-volume abridgement of his four-decker chronicling the Square Mile's past.
Prescott was adamant that his work should not be altered by anyone other than himself, and when he heard that his publishers were considering an abridgement of the History of Ferdinand and Isabella in June 1839, he produced an abridgement of the work himself, which resulted in the original project's cancellation.
The first years of retirement saw a flurry of work, from a translation and abridgement (in partnership with his wife) of Alexandre Dumas' encyclopedia of food - Dumas On Food (1978), to the publication of his North Atlantic Seafood (1979), to putting in place, in 1978, a deal with Oxford University Press to commence his magnum opus, The Oxford Companion To Food, not to see the light until 1999.
The same year were published the patent abridgement volumes that bear his name, a first in the use of patents as a source of technical information.
THE LATE KING - In subsequent columns will be found a variety of details connected with the death of his late majesty, WILLIAM the FOURTH, and an abridgement of an impartial and well-written memoir of his life, which we have taken from the Morning Chronicle.
The son of an Anglican minister, Olivier attended All Saints Choir School, where at age nine he made his theatrical debut as Brutus in an abridgement of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
This month we reproduce an abridgement of Chapter 18 from his monograph, "The Hip and its Diseases" [ 5], published in 1884 (Fig. 2).
Although his works were originally published as huge Latin tomes, a French abridgement of them appeared in the second half of the century, as did English translations of various excerpts.
