complete universal dictionary english language von barclay james rev (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Leather rubbed and worn at corners, joints, and ends of spine. Some foxing. Plates generally very good, a few with dampstains and tidemarks to the lower margin. A few leaves a little loosened and protruding from text block.; viii, 984 pages + engraved frontispiece (Victoria Rg) + extra engraved title leaf (The horse-shoe falls) + 34 engraved portait plates (of past English monarchs). There are no maps in this volume. Half leather binding. Page dimensions: 274 x 212mm. This "dictionary" is also part-encyclopaedia and as it has length entries on certain subjects, such as "canals", "crown" and many biographical entries about particular individuals. The entries on past English Kings and Queens are among the lengthiest.

Leather. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Illustrated with hand coloured plates and folding maps, present here are three scarce and informative works, including the very scarce first edition of 'A Collection of the Principal Flags of all Nations in the World'. A delightful collection of three educational early 19th century educational works, covering a range of subjects from the English language, the flags of the world, and world maps.The first work is a scarce later 1823 edition of Rev. James Barclay's 'A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language'.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page, and with twenty-four further plates. Collated, complete.The second work is the very scarce 1813 first edition of 'A Collection of the Principal Flags of all Nations in the World' illustrated with sixteen hand coloured engraved plates. Collated, complete.The final work is the 1825 edition of the very scarce work 'An Atlas of the Principal Places in the World', which was first published in 1807.Illustrated with twenty-one hand coloured maps, many of which are folding. Collated, complete.These three works are bound together in reverse calf. In a full reverse calf binding. Light rubbing and handling marks to boards. small tide mark to centre of front board. Joint heads and tails starting, with rear board firmly held and front board just a touch tender. Internally, generally firmly bound. Tide marks to head of leaves throughout, with pages a touch age toned, and with instances of spotting and handling marks. Good. book.

Full Leather. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. .and other market towns of Great Britain, and of the Kingdoms, states, provinces, and cities in the known world, with a variety of other useful information. A new edition, enlarged, improved and adapted to the present state of science by BB Woodward, London. 82 plates including county maps and national maps, and portraits. Rebound in leather, with attached leather bookmark, and with stencil painted endpapers. Marbled closed edges with a small stain to base edges, very light rubbing to boards, gilt fading to title on spine, light foxing patches throughout, frontis. tape repaired to edges, else contents sound, plates clean and bright, pp tidy. Size: 4to.

In-8° gr. cm. 27,5 pp. XXXIII-928 con 25 tav. di vedute, strumenti scientifici, ecc. f.t. di cui una con le bandiere inglesi a colori. legatura in tutta pelle con riparazioni al dorso ed a una cerniera. A new Edition enlarged improved & adapter to the present state of science. Testo su due colonne.

New edition. 4to. ( 275mm. ). Pp. vii, 984. Extra engraved title page. Plates [ 79 ] 47 English county maps and town plans, 20 continent and country maps coloured in outline, and 12 others mainly portraits including a tissue guarded frontispiece. Dated from the Preface. Occasional spotting, in other respects a clean copy. The 47 Thomas Moule, uncoloured, county maps and plans are occasionally lightly spotted, clear impressions and have not been trimmed. The West Indies map has a small hole. Contemporary calf over boards rubbed and abraded, floral lozenges in blind on the upper and lower covers, backstrip with five raised bands, dark geeen title label lettered in gilt within in a simple triple line frame, green marbled endpapers. Binders ticket of Blackie and Son on the rear pastedown.

Book measures 28.5. x23 cm. 984pp, 50 maps, plans,13 plates, including frontis. Bindings detached, but complete, [ so could be restored ]. Internally, some light spotting to plates, occasional short closed tear. Pages and plates in good condition. A good collection of maps/plans, sold as is. Size: Quarter.

Full Calf. Zustand: Good Plus. No Jacket. Reprint. n.d. [1848] viii, 984, [2] plus 22 hand coloured in outline - plates of the world. 42 county maps. A further three maps of the Isles (Wight, Man, Thanet). 1 map of the United kingdom (not coloured in outline) 6 other plans of towns and and a further 10 engraved portraits/historical scenes. Contemporary black full calf leather with gilt embossed brown title block. 5 raised bands to the spine. . A good or good plus copy. The frontispiece is detached, significantly creased, worn to the edges with smallish chips to the margins i.e very tired indeed. The front endpapers missing. The illustrated title page has around 5 vertical creases in it. All from the title page onwards remain tight, complete and fairly clean. Some light cropping of the Thomas Moule county maps but with the normal amounts of foxing and toning which you can expect to see with this title. There is a chip to the upper margin of Dorsetshire with slight loss of border - the title name remains complete. An oval ink mark to the leading fore-edge hardly affecting the margins of the plates together with a general ink line to the same area of the leading fore-edge again with very minor additional damage. A biro dash line to the leading fore-edge. A number of vertical crease marks to the rear enpaper.Some additional creasing to the margins of a couple of leaves along the tail. Splitting to the front inner hinge but front board holding by one or two cords - not sprung. Rubbing head and tail of the spine and a 4cm split to the outer joint at the head of the spine. Rubbing to the leather to the corners, joint edges and elsewhere to the boards. Clarke's new and complete atlas of the principal places in the world complete with 22 hand-coloured plates remain in very good condition though there is a slight chip to the margin of the final plate and a biro cross mark in the margin of the first plate. The odd scattered soil mark. Over all a good or good plus copy of this important dictionary more famed for its maps than its etymology!

First Bungay edition, 4to, engraved title page (verso blank), pp. [v]-xxxiii, [3], 928; 20 engraved hand-colored maps (4 folding), 26 engraved plates; full contemporary calf scuffed and rubbed, but sound; good copy. Includes a number of miscellaneous articles, including those on the origin of alphabets, by the Abbot Anselm, a short essay on the origin and antiquity of the English tongue, an English grammar, and sections on the constitution, government and trade of England. First published in 1774, the dictionary went through many editions over the following seventy-five years, serving "the lower orders for nearly a century, as a dictionary of useful information" (Wheatley). Barclay was the first English lexicographer to introduce synonymy in a dictionary, basing himself firmly on the earlier work of John Trusler, English Synonyms or the Difference between Words Esteemed Synonymous in the English Language, first published in 1766. Vancil, p. 18.