A History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. in Two Volumes.

xxii, 470; xix, 576 pp. Original full leather, red and black morocco spine labels, gilt titles, decorations, and rules, marbled edges and endpapers. A history of ancient Rome by the co-author of the famous Greek-English Lexicon still used as an authoritative reference. Liddell was dean of Christ Church, Oxford (1855-1891); Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1870 - 1874); and headmaster (1846 - 1855) of Westminster School. His daughter, Alice Liddell, is the namesake of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.