Bibliotheca Classica: or. A Classical Dictionary. Containing a Full Account of All the Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors. With tables of Coins, Weights, and Measures, in use among the Greeks and Romans. To which is added a Chronological Table

LEMPRIERE, John

$195.00

Publisher: London, T. Cadell, 1792
Description: ppxxiv [unpaginated], 2 [adverts]. 8vo, contemporary full tree calf, raised bands, spine in compartments, lettered and stamped in gilt. Completely split in two, and newly housed in a clamshell box with morocco titling label. A little discolouring to endpapers, but a very good copy

The second edition. See `Printing and the Mind of Man’ for the first, Reading edition, of 1788.`..the first of a new kind on manual…the first specialist work designed as a substitute for, rather than an aid to, learning’

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