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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888)

Paley, Frederick Apthorp. An English scholar and writer on architecture, grandson of William; born, Jan. 14, 1815; died on Dec. 9, 1888. He graduated in 1838 at Cambridge, became a Roman Catholic in 1846, and professor of classical literature in University College from 1874. He edited many Greek and Latin texts, and published a ‘Manual of Gothic Architecture’ (1846), and other writings on similar subjects.