Leverett, F. P. [editor]. 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 with An English-Latin Lexicon, prepared to accompany Leverett's Latin-English Lexicon. Boston: Wilkins, Carter, & Co., 1850. A New Edition, embracing the Classical Distinctions of Words, and the Etymological Index of Freund's Lexicon. [12427]
Full brown leather, black leather spine title label with digs to the left edge (see pics), binding very good, 10 x 6 1/4 inches. 2 pp. adverts, [i]-iv, 1-1024; iv, 5-318 clean pp., tight. Marbled page edges; the entire printed in three columns. Very good. Hardcover.
"The present work was undertaken in the belief that an important want existed, and with the hope of doing something to supply that want." - Preface.
Frederick Percival Leverett (1803-1836), b. Boston, Mass.; he was a classical scholar who served as master at the Boston Latin School.
