The Oxford Classical Dictionary - FIRST EDITION - 1949

FIRST EDITION, published by the University of Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1949, hardcover, blue cloth binding, original, 971 pages, 21 cms x 28 cms x 6.2 cms, minor bumping to board corners, no dust jacket, otherwise condition: very good.

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) is generally considered "the best one-volume dictionary on antiquity," an encyclopedic work in English consisting of articles relating to classical antiquity and its civilizations. This first edition copy  was published in 1949..

                                                  This is an essential reference for both scholars and non-specialists with an interest in the classical era.

      '.a delight for anyone with any curiosity about the roots of our Western culture a browsers paradise, and I would think a researchers quick rescuer