1825 Precept & Example 144 A biograph of the Earl of Chatham is almost superfluous; it is written in the memory of his countrymen, and our histories and records are full of his actions, his virtues, and his glories.

1862 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 12 Apr. 176/2 We look anxiously for the appearance of a forthcoming work by Victor Hugo, entitled ‘Les Miserables’. What can it be all about? we wonder—can it be a series of biographs of the leaders of rebellion in the United States?

1932 D. Dudley Forgotten Frontiers lix. 398 Twelve Men, which book of portraits went a long way to regain for its author the confidence of Mencken and other friends. They are keen and tender biographs.

1998 Sunday News (Auckland) (Nexis) 13 Dec. 11 Another gagging order came my way when we started publishing the photos and biographs of criminals.

1896 N.Y. Times 13 Oct. 5/5 The triumph of the night was in the so-called ‘biograph’.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 19 Mar. 3/3 It cannot be claimed that the biograph is free from vibration, nor do the pictures rest as steadily on the screen as they might.

1898 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. Almanac 655 The exhibition of animated photographs on a larger scale than usual, by the biograph, the invention of an American, Mr. Casler.

1912 C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Heather Moon ii. iv They're going to take photographs of a Gretna Green wedding..for a biograph show.

2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 29 June 47/2 William Dickson, the first man in history to film a war, mounting his bulky ‘biograph’ camera on railroad flatcars or heaving it up the scorching crags of Natal.

1776 M. Dawes Let. to Lord Chatham 58 I will not now pretend to biograph particulars, but there is every reason to believe, that posterity will find an historian before whom facts will be spread.

1858 Rhode Island Schoolmaster 4 74/1 He was biographed in the December number of the New York National Magazine for 1856, and his likeness also appeared therein.

1870 Gentleman's Mag. June 97 We are not biographing, though in chronicling a gift one cannot help recalling the remarkable associations of the giver.

1948 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 61 145 The author examines Freud's interpretation—in Freud's own idiom—of various noted men (some of whom Ludwig has himself biographed).

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 23 Mar. As Mr. Gould says, a tough man to biograph. The very traits which make this so, make both the man and his music frustratingly difficult to reduce to a common denominator.

1992 Sydney Morning Herald 28 Nov. (Good Weekend Mag.) 49/2 Any of these people are worthy of biographing.

2004 Commonweal 22 Oct. 34/2 William Faulkner is now an institution, first biographed thirty years ago by Joseph Blotner in two massive volumes.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 27 May 4/2 The finish of the Derby on Wednesday was ‘biographed’ for the Palace Theatre.

1901 Westm. Gaz. 14 Jan. 8/2 The experiment of biographing a battle is not absolutely new.