Dyce, Alexander, an English literary editor and historian, born in Edinburgh; edited several of the old English poets and authors, some of them little known before; also the poems of Shakespeare, Pope, &c.; was one of the founders of the Percy Society, for the publication of old English works (1798‒1869).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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