Background
Mosher, Thomas Bird was born on September 11, 1852 in Biddeford, Maine, United States. Son of Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth (Merrill) Mosher.
Mosher, Thomas Bird was born on September 11, 1852 in Biddeford, Maine, United States. Son of Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth (Merrill) Mosher.
Educational public schools, Biddeford, Maine, and Boston. (honorary Master of Arts, Bowdoin College, 1906).
Began publishing choice and limited edits, of books in belles lettres, October 1891. Began editing and publishing The Bibelot, January 1895, a reprint of poetry and prose, largely from scarce editions and sources not usually known. Completed, with index, in 21 vols., 1915.
Edited and published American edit. of The Germ, 1898. Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads, 1899. Rossetti’s Poetical Works, 1902.
The first absolute facsimile reprint of Fitzgerald’s Omar Khayyam of 1859, 1902. Besides editing and compiling bibliography in Old World edit. of Fitzgerald’s entire texts of Omar. Home: Portland, Me.
Married Anna M. Littlefield, July 2, 1892.