Arriving in season 3 to oversee the finances of Sterling Cooper, Lane Pryce brought a few things from Britain over to the States with him. One of those was a futuristic dictionary. In one of the most infamous anachronisms of the shows run, the bookshelf in Lanes office displays the three-volume Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. This edition wasnt published until 1987, meaning it appeared on Lanes shelves 24-years too early. How did this come to be? The Twitter account of Lane Pryce may give us some answers
Regarding my office library, I was asked to hold onto those books by a nervous young man named McFly. http://bit.ly/WiTRG #madprops