id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-289 Dictionary of National Biography - Wikipedia .html text/html 3020 315 67 The title page of the first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography (1885) The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives. Throughout the twentieth century, further volumes were published for those who had died, generally on a decade-by-decade basis, beginning in 1912 with a supplement edited by Lee covering those who died between 1901 and 1911. The volumes of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography The new dictionary, now known as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (or ODNB), was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes in print at a price of £7500, and in an online edition for subscribers. The volumes of the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography in various file formats in the Internet Archive ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-289.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-289.txt