NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Valpy, Abraham John, 1787-1854 NRA: Valpy Abraham John (1787-1854) Editor and Printer DNB: Valpy, Abraham John (1787-1854), classical scholar and printer LBT ID: AbValpy1854 VIAF ID: 13082604 LOC ID: nr92013472 | B/BAP: 1787 DIED: 1854-11-19 |
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Son of the Reading schoolmaster Richard Valpy, he was a London printer who specialized in
classical texts. With the poet George Dyer he published 141 volumes of Delphin classics
(1819-30). | |
REFERENCES TO Abraham John Valpy: Lord Byron to John Murray, 10 August 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1:
¶ 4 Uvedale Price to Samuel Rogers, 8 December 1824 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 1 Uvedale Price to Samuel Rogers, 26 December 1824 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 10 Charles Lamb to George Dyer, 22 February 1831 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 1 Mary Russell Mitford to Cyrus Redding, [1832?] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Literary Gazette Found 1:
¶ 2 Ch 5: Criticisms Found 1:
¶ 14 Ch. 11: The R.S.L. Found 1:
¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1:
¶ 48 Chapter I. Found 1:
¶ 4 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXI Found 1:
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