Graecum Lexicon Manuale, Primum a Beniàmine Hederico Institutum, post repetitas Sam. Patricii Curas, Auctum Myriade Amplius Verborum, Innumeris Vitiis Repurgatum, Plurimisque Novis Significatibus Verborum Locupletatum cura Io. Augusti Ernesti, nunc denuo Recensitum, et Quamplurimum in Utraque parte auctum a T. Morell, S.T.P. Thesauri.
Londini [London]: excudit H. Woodfall, impensis, H. Woodfall, J. Beecroft, C. Bathurst, J. Rivington, [and 18 others in London], 1766. [2],viii, [862] pp. Coll. a4-5r3. Title page in red and black. 4to. Later full vellum, five raised bands, brown morocco lettering piece. First edition thus. Boards soiled else a very good tight copy, scattered foxing. ESTC T140706. Item #35576
Text in three columns. Hederich (1675-1748) was a German lexicographer and hellenist who lexicon was first published in 1722. Morrell (1703–1784) was a classical scholar and librettist. He wrote the librettos for Handel's Alexander Balus, Theodora, and Jephtha, but he "never prospered materially -according to William Cole, because he kept low company, especially with musicians, and was irremediably improvident.... In his lifetime [he] was chiefly known, and widely esteemed, as a classical scholar." (ODNB)
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