A Latine Dictionary In Four Parts
Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus = A Latine Dictionary In Four Parts
by Adam Littleton
| A Latine Dictionary In Four Parts | |
 Title page from A Latine Dictionary In Four Parts, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
| Author | Adam Littleton |
| Published | London: Printed for T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell |
| Date | 1678 |
| Language | English, Latin |
Adam Littleton was the most reputable Latin lexicographer in 17th century England. His 1678 edition of his A Latine Dictionary in Four Parts was succeeded by an even more reputably considered improved edition published at Cambridge in 1693. [1] For the purposes of the later published edition, the editors utilized “a manuscript collection of authorities from Roman authors, in three volumes, folio, by John Milton.” [Ibid.]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Bound in decorative calf with an attractive engraved frontispiece showing the Bibliotheca Palatina. Contain's previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown of one Henry Thomas Payne. Purchased from Rooke Books.
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References
- ↑ “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.
