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Life of Edward William Lane.
by LANE-POOLE, Stanley
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Williams and Norgate,, 1877. First separate edition of this study of the great Arabist and the author's great-uncle. The text is reproduced with minor changes from Part VI of the Arabic-English Lexicon - a grand project started by Lane in the 1840s and completed by the author in 1893. Stanley Lane-Poole (1854-1931) was educated privately under Lane's supervision and went up to Oxford in 1874. Although reading modern history, "he had already begun studying oriental coinage with his uncle Reginald Stuart Poole (18321895), keeper of coins and medals in the British Museum, and from 1874 was employed cataloguing the museum's Islamic coins under his uncle's editorship. On the death of his great-uncle in 1876 Lane-Poole undertook to complete his great Arabic Lexicon, issuing the sixth part, with a memoir of Lane's life, in 1877 and the fragmentary seventh and eighth parts in 1885 and 1893" (ODNB). Lane-Poole held the chair in Arabic studies at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1897 to 1904. Octavo. Original green morocco-grain cloth, spine and front cover elaborately blocked in gilt, rear cover blocked in blind, brown coated endpapers. Gilt bright, spine and extremities rubbed, edges foxed, contents clean: a very good copy.
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- Peter Harrington
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- Title
- Life of Edward William Lane.
- Author
- LANE-POOLE, Stanley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Williams and Norgate,
- Date Published
- 1877
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