Lempriere's Dictionary

Norfolk, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 1856190536 / ISBN 13: 9781856190534

Published by Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Lempriere's Dictionary

Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson, London

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First UK Edition, First Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

A highly collectible first edition protected in a new brodart wrapper, not price clipped, an ex-lib or book club edition, no markings throughout.\nA novel which blends history with fiction and crime with reality.

From the Inside Flap:

"An important and inspiring novel."
VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
It is 18th-century London and John Lempriere, a young scholar, is writing a dictionary of classical mythology in an attempt to exorcise the demons raised by his father's violent and bizarre death. While tending to his father's business affairs, Lempriere discovers a 150-year old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the fabulously wealthy East India Company. But as John begins to untangle the years of mystery and deceit, people begin to die, in ways that mirror the very myths he is researching....