A biographical dictionary of the living authors of Great Britain and Ireland : comprising literary memoirs and anecdotes of their lives, and a chronological register of their publications, with the number of editions printed; including notices of some foreign writers whose works have been occasionally published in England

"Mr. [Frederic] Shoberl proceeded to assure me, in the presence of his son, that the work was written by [John] Watkins as far as the letter F -- that some dispute with the publishers then arose -- that the materials were therefore handed over to himself -- and that he completed the work as it now appears."--Bolton Corney, in Notes & queries, 1st ser., v. 11 (1855) p. 34

The work is sometimes attributed to William Upcott