young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done!" In 1901, the historian J. Horace Round wrote of Burke's "old fables" and "grotesquely impossible tales". More recent editions have been more scrupulously checked and rewritten for accuracy, notably under the chief editorship, from 1949 to 1959, of L. G. Pine and Hugh Massingberd (1971–1983). Pine was particularly sceptical regarding many families' claims to antiquity, saying: "If everybody who claims to have come over with the Conqueror were right, William must have landed with 200,000 men-at-arms instead of about 12,000." See also Almanach de Gotha The Complete Peerage Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage Social Register Carnet Mondain International Register of Arms, formerly Burke's Peerage & Gentry International Register of Arms References External links Burke's Peerage Foundation website Online editions 1st edition – 1826 – Hathitrust 3rd edition – 1830 – Hathitrust 4th edition – 1832 – Vol 1 – Hathitrust 4th edition – 1832 – Vol 2 – Hathitrust 4th edition – 1832 – Vol 2 – Google Books 4th edition – corrected to 1833 – Vol 2 – Hathitrust 5th edition – 1838 – Google Books 6th edition – 1839 – Hathitrust 7th edition – 1843 – Vol 2 – Hathitrust 10th edition – 1848 – Hathitrust 12th edition – 1850 – Hathitrust 20th edition – 1858 – Hathitrust 22nd edition – 1860 – Hathitrust 23rd edition – 1861 – Hathitrust 27th edition – 1865 – Google Books 30th edition – 1868 – Google Books 30th edition – 1868 – Vol 1 – Hathitrust 30th edition – 1868 – Vol 2 – Hathitrust 31st edition – 1869 – Vol 1 – Hathitrust 31st edition – 1869 – Vol 2 – Hathitrust 37th edition – 1875 – Vol 2 – Hathitrust 40th edition – 1878 – Hathitrust 48th edition – 1886 – University of Dusseldorf 53rd edition – 1891 – University of Dusseldorf 76th edition – 1914 (to page 1274) – Archive.org 77th edition – 1915 – Archive.org Publications established in 1826 Publishing companies established in 1826 British biographical dictionaries English society Scottish society Welsh society Family history Genealogy publications Literature on heraldry Series of books 19th-century history books 20th-century history books 21st-century history books 1826 establishments in the United Kingdom Peerages in the United Kingdom