George Burnham Ives (1856-1930) was an American bibliographer, editor, and translator.
Ives was a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
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.
After his release, he became a distinguished and prolific literary translator, translating works by Balzac, Daudet, Gautier, Hugo, Maupassant, Mérimée, Sand and others into English.
1921 Text, Type and Style: A Compendium of Atlantic Usage 1907 A Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes