J. Lempriere — 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.

London, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1815. Leather. A very scarce copy of John Lempriere's Classical Dictionary. The ninth edition, corrected. John Lempriere (c. 1765, Jersey – 1 February 1824, London) was an English classical scholar, lexicographer, theologian, teacher and headmaster. He was the son of Charles Lempriere (died 1801), of Mont au Pretre, Jersey. Lempriere may have been influenced by another Pembroke man, the lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson, whose famous A Dictionary of the English Language had appeared in 1755. A little over thirty years later, around 1786, Lempriere started work on his own Classical dictionary. In a morocco binding. Externally, heavily worn. The boards are rubbed with some areas of loss, and the spine is almost entirely gone. The boards are detached from the text block. There are also some closed tears and a little loss to the front pastedown, free endpaper and title page, a wax stamp to the rear pastedown, and some marks to the fore-edge. Internally, the binding is strained in places and the last few pages at the rear are loose, possibly with a few missing. There is some spotting throughout and the final 6 pages at the rear are creased with numerous closed tears and some loss. Poor . Ill.: None. Poor .