Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum: or, a general English dictionary, comprehending a brief but emphatical and clear explication of all sorts of difficult words . to which is added a large collection of words and phrases . made use of in our ancient statutes, old records, charters, writs . an interpretation of the proper names of men and women . The whole work compil'd and methodically digested, for the benefit of young students, tradesmen, artificers, foreigners, and others who are desirous thoroughly to understand what they speak, read, or write

Kersey, John

Verlag: printed by J. Wilde, for J. Phillips [et al.], London, 1708

Beschreibung

First edition of the first abridged English dictionary, 8vo, unpaginated, collating A B-Z? 2a-2h? 2A-3N? 4A-4O? 4P 4Q-4X?; contemporary paneled calf, neat 20th-century rebacking, gilt-lettered direct on spine; endpapers renewed but old endpapers laid down preserving provenance (see below); title page loosening at the bottom and browned, front hinge cracked after the second leaf, otherwise, a good, sound copy. On the restored endpapers is the ownership signature of "John Milburn his book December 6th anno dom 1782. Swear not at all, swear not by heaven for it is God's throne nor by the earth for it is his toadstool. Nor by thy head for thou canst not make one hair black or white. Fear God and fear his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man." Furthermore, on the front free endpaper are these quips: "Keep good company if you'd keep a good name. January 6, 1782. You'll find this little maxim true, fools are the games that knaves persue." Alston V, 91 ("an unconfessed abridgement of Kersey's revision of Phillip's dictionary" - the New World of English Words, 1706 - "although it contains much dialectal material not found in that work"); Starnes & Noyes, pp. 95-97 ("Kersey's vocabulary, estimated at 35,000 words, far surpasses that of any preceding dictionary, with the single exception of the folio Kersey-Phillips, which, amazingly enough considering its difference in physical size, it almost equals"). Kennedy 6203; Vancil, p. 138. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 64366

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Titel: Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum: or, a ...

Verlag: printed by J. Wilde, for J. Phillips [et al.], London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1708

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage