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$a eng
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$a uk
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$a Lemprière, John
$d 1765?-1824.
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$a 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. By J. Lempriere, D.D.
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$a London:
$b Printed For T. Cadell And W. Davies In The Strand.
$c 1804.
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$a xxiv, [952] p. ;
$c 270 mm. (Quarto.)
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$a [T.p., dedic.] - Preface - A Chronological table, From The Creation Of The World To The Fall Of The Roman Empire In The West, And In The East [i.e. 4004 B.C. to 1453 A.D.] - [Text]; [colophon] - [Advertisement].
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$a The printers' names are given on the title-page verso and in the colophon: 'Printed by Strahan and Preston, New-Street Square, London.'
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$a Lempriere had published the first edition of his dictionary as a twenty-three-year-old undergraduate in 1788, under the title Bibliotheca classica (Reading: T. Cadell). Its brief but readable entries made it immediately popular - the poet Keats is known to owned at least two copies - and it has been reprinted many times since.
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$a 5 March 1810: Purchase agreed on recommendation of John Flaxman (see RA Council Minutes IV, 199-200). Acquired by 1821 (see A Catalogue of the Library in the Royal Academy, London, 1821, p. 27).
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$a 19th-century half green morocco, green cloth-covered boards; rebacked in 20th century retaining earlier brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Lempriere's Classical Dictionary'.
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$a Greeks - Romans - Celebrities - Greece - Rome - Mediterranean Region - Civilization - History
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$a Dictionaries - Reference books - Biography - 19th century
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$a Strahan
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$a Preston
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$a cadell
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$a Davies, William
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$a Strahan and Preston
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$a Cadell and Davies
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$d 1821: E-4-06.
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