British Dictionaries of the Ancient World

Lempriere, J. 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. Twentieth edition, corrected. London: T. Cadell, 1844. 8vo, finely bound by Bickers & Son in contemporary tan half calf with marbled sides; spine with five raised bands, ruled and richly decorated in gilt; black morocco spine label, gilt; marbled endpapers; all page edges marbled. xxxii, 847, (1) pages. Spine sunned; near fine. [with] Hammond, N.G.L., and H.H. Scullard [editors]. THE OXFORD CLASSICAL DICTIONARY. Second edition. London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1970 [1978 printing]. Crown 4to, original gray-blue cloth, gilt. xxii, 1176 pages. Near fine. Two British dictionaries of the Classical world, the first a finely bound copy of an early Victorian dictionary and the second one of the standard modern references.