Gover's Handy Book for All Readers, Being a Complete Manual of Reference: Containing Copious Extracts and Quotations from the Best Authors in All Languages, Fully Tr. Into English, With Illus. Historical and Idiomatic

Gover's Handy Book For All Readers, Being A Complete Manual Of Reference: Containing Copious Extracts And Quotations From The Best Authors In All Languages, Fully Trans. Into English, With Illus. Historical And Idiomatic is a nineteenth-century reference work compiled by Edward Thomas Gover. The volume presents a dictionary-like compilation of quotations, proverbs, and maxims drawn from classical authors and multiple languages, each entry supplemented with English translations, marginal notes, and occasional commentary. The Introduction explains the editor's method of alphabetically arranging common-places and quotes, with attention to translations and explanatory context. The core feature is a Dictionary of Quotations, featuring Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and other languages, including famous lines from Horace, Virgil, Juvenal, Cicero, Terence, and Tacitus, among others. The collection aims to provide concise, readily usable expressions to illustrate arguments, sentiments, or literary devices. This work endures as a historical example of Victorian-era reference design, uniting literary erudition with practical reference utility.