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LITTLETON, Adam : Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus

LITTLETON, Adam. Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus. A Latine Dictionary, in Four Parts. I. An English-Latine. II. A Latine- Classical. III. A Latine-Proper. IV. A Latine-Barbarous. London, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell, [1677 and] 1678. Folio. Unpaginated. Second edition (the first was 1673) much enlarged. The English-Latin portion is as much thesaurus as dictionary. The "Latine-Classical" is a Latin-English dictionary with etymology, including Hebrew; the "Latine- Proper" is a dictionary of personal and place names; the "Latine- Barbarous" (dated 1677) contains erroneous and foreign words. A legal dictionary and tables of weights, measures, coinage, chronology etc. crown the work. In 1670 Littleton was made chaplain to Charles II. His dedication to the King explains that he has rejected much of former dictionaries which would not be of use to students. His dictionary remained in print until 1735. An engraved frontispiece (rebacked) shows the Palatine Library established by Augustus. The engraved map of Ancient Italy, and the engraved plan of Rome showing all its monuments and buildings, are both present. In an unsophisticated calf binding of the period, with plain boards, and spine in six compartments with elaborate floral tooling. Hinges cracked externally. Bookplate of Watkin Williams of Penbedw, Denbigh, probably the Welsh schoolmaster-poet who won the Eisteddfod at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 with a poem in Welsh on George Washington. (Cordell 220. BL 612.1.13.).

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