A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY. CONTAINING A COPIOUS ACCOUNT OF ALL THE PROPER NAMES MENTIONED IN ANCIENT AUTHORS. WITH THE VALUE OF COINS, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES USED AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS AND A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. ; A new edition, greatly enlarged, improved, and corrected, by F. D. Lemprière

Quarto, 10.75 in. x 9 in. Unpaginated. Contemporary three-quarter vellum over marbled boards. Gilt title on red panel to spine, with gilt bandlines and decoration. Light soiling to vellum; light shelfwear to edges, with touch of rubbing to marbled front board. Decorative brown endpapers. Occasional reader's note in pencil to the margins. Touch of wrinkling and spotting to first several pages. John Lemprière (c. 1765 -1824) was an English classical scholar, lexicographer, theologian, teacher and headmaster. He achieved renown for his Bibliotheca Classica or Classical Dictionary containing a full Account of all the Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors (first published in 1788), which, edited by various later scholars, long remained a readable if not absolutely trustworthy reference book in mythology and classical history. Lemprière wished "to give the most accurate and satisfactory account of all the proper names which occur in reading the Classics, and by a judicious collection of anecdotes and historical facts to draw a picture of ancient times, not less instructive than entertaining.".