Dictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum: Gentium. Hominum, Deorum Gentilium, Regionum, Insularum, Locorum, Civitatum [...]. ESTIENNE (Charles). LLOYD (Rev. Nicholas).

Dictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum: Gentium. Hominum, Deorum Gentilium, Regionum, Insularum, Locorum, Civitatum [...] Opus admodum utile & apprime necessarium. A Carolo Stephano Inchoatum. Ad incudem vero revocatum, ...per Nicolaum Lloydium, Collegii Wadhami in celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi Socium. Editio Novissima. ... Cui accessit Index Geographicus, ubi hodierna & vernacula Locorum nomina Antiquis & Latinis praeponuntur.

Second edition of Llyod's revision. Folio. [355 x 235 x 54 mm]. [12] pp, text printed in two columns and unpaginated, collates B-Ccc4 (last leaf sub-title to Index to Dictionarium Geographicum), B-Tt4, Uu-Xx2. Bound in contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, spine divided into seven compartments by raised bands, the second with a red morocco label, the others tooled in gilt, the edges of the boards tooled in gilt with a roll, plain endpapers. (Joints rubbed, spine somewhat darkened and worn at the foot, extremities bumped).

London: Impensis B. Tooke, T. Passenger, T. Sawbridge, A Swalle & A. Churchill, 1686

Text block clean, a good copy overall.

Old ink price "0:8s:6" on the front flyleaf accompanied by the North Library bookplate of Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, owned by the Earls of Macclesfield. Armorial blind stamp present at the head of the tile-page and proceeding four leaves.

The first edition appeared in 1670 with several variant title-pages and was reissued in 1671. This second edition was published in 1686, six years after Lloyd's death.

The Rev. Nicholas Lloyd (1630?-80), was a student and academic at Wadham College, Oxford, holding numerous offices including "bursar, catechist, humanity lecturer (1659), university rhetoric reader (1665) and sub-warden (1666,1670). He was also rector of St Martin Carfax, Oxford (1665-70). In 1665 Dr Walter Blandford, bishop of Oxford and subsequently of Worcester, appointed Lloyd his Chaplin." (ODNB).

"In 1670 Lloyd published a revision and enlargement of Charles Estienne's compendious Dictionarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum; this was the product of twenty years of Lloyd's labour, for which he drew on classical sources, the church fathers, and modern authors on geography and pagan antiquity. He 'made it quite another thing, by adding thereunto, from his great reading, almost as much more matter as there was before, with many corrections' (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 3.1259). The first edition having quickly sold, Lloyd continued to revise and expand the work." (ODNB).

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