Difference between revisions of "Latine Dictionary in Four Parts"

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by Adam Littleton

A Latine Dictionary
Title page from A Latine Dictionary In Four Parts, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.
Author	Adam Littleton
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Published	London: Printed for T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell
Date	1678
Edition	First
Language	English and Latin
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Pages	668 leaves
Desc.	4to (25 cm.)
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Frontispiece.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Littleton's [Latin] dict. Lat. Eng. 4to." This was one of the titles kept by Thomas Jefferson and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both the Brown Bibliography^[3] and George Wythe's Library^[4] on LibraryThing include the first edition (1678) published in London based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson.^[5] The volumes no longer exist to verify the edition, but the Wolf Law Library chose to purchase the edition recommended by Sowerby.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in decorative red calf. Includes armorial bookplate of Henry Thomas Payne, M.A. on front pastedown. Previous owners' inscriptions on verso of front free endpaper. Signed "Henry Edmund Hutchinson from Trevor C. G. James, Esq. <illegible>" and "Frank H. Lamb" on the front flyleaf. Front flyleaf also stamped "Pantasaph Monastery Library" and "Franciscan Library, Greyfriars, Walsingham." Purchased from Rooke Books.

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  Inscriptions (inverted), verso of front free endpaper.
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  Inscriptions, front flyleaf.

Bookplate of Hen. Tho^s. Payne M.A., front pastedown.

References

1. ↑ "A New and Copious Lexicon of the Latin Language; Compiled Chiefly from the "Magnum Totius Latinitatis Lexicon" of Facciolati and Forcellini, and the German Works of Scheller and Luenemann by Scheller, Luenemann, F. P. Leverett,” The North American Review 45, no. 97 (Oct. 1837): 339.
2. ↑ Ibid.
3. ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
4. ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on February 18, 2014.
5. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:87-88 [no.4796].