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{{no footnotes|date=June 2017}}'''George Burnham Ives''' (1856-1930) was an American bibliographer, editor, and translator.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
He was a member of [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]]'s [[Timothy Pickering|Pickering]] family. Ives was a [[summa cum laude]] graduate of [[Harvard Law School]].<br />
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== Career ==<br />
He became the Assistant District Attorney of [[Essex County, Massachusetts|Essex County]]. On May 12, 1890, Ives pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement and forgery, having been caught misappropriating tens of thousands of dollars from various trust funds as well as squandering his wife's inheritance. He was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in [[Charlestown Prison]] and was disbarred.<br />
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While in prison, Ives developed a second career as a translator. After his release, he became a distinguished and prolific literary translator, translating works by [[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]], [[Alphonse Daudet|Daudet]], [[Théophile Gautier|Gautier]], [[Victor Hugo|Hugo]], [[Guy de Maupassant|Maupassant]], [[Prosper Mérimée|Mérimée]], [[George Sand|Sand]] and others into English. He edited an edition of the essays of [[Montaigne]] (the infamous "fig leaf" edition).<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers|year=2000|isbn=9781884964367|editor-last=Classe|editor-first=Olive|volume=2|location=London & Chicago|pages=965}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000|isbn=9780198183594|editor-last=France|editor-first=Peter|location=Oxford & New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordguidetolit00pete/page/262 262]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordguidetolit00pete/page/262}}</ref> In later life, Ives produced the first comprehensive bibliography of the works of [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]] and worked as an editor at ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]''.<br />
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==Works==<br />
===Author===<br />
1921 [https://archive.org/details/texttypestylecom00ivesrich ''Text, Type and Style: A Compendium of Atlantic Usage'']<br />
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===Bibliographer===<br />
1907 [https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofol00ives ''A Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes'']<br />
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*[http://pickeringhouse.org/news/Pickering-2009-Newsletter.pdf ''The Pickering House Newsletter'', Issue #14, November 2009, p. 4]<br />
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