La vie et les oeuvres de claude de sainliens alias claudius holyband

FARRER, Lucy E.

Verlag: Honorà Champion, Paris, 1908

Beschreibung

[2], vii, [1], 115pp. Bound by George's of Bristol in contemporary red sheep-backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities worn, upper joint split. Marbled endpapers. Presentation copy, inked inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'R. L. J. Ritchie with the author's compliments'. The first edition of a life and bibliography of philologist and lexicographer Claude de Sainliens, alias Claudius Hollyband (1534-1594); the third published work of Lucy E. Farrer, doctor of the University of Paris. A Huguenot refugee from Moulins, Hollyband settled in England in the mid-sixteenth century, where he composed numerous linguistic treatises, including A Dictionarie French and English: published for the benefite of the studious in that language (London, 1593), one of the earliest French-English dictionaries and a primary source for Cotgrave's A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (London, 1611). Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ23252

Bibliografische Details

Titel: La vie et les oeuvres de claude de sainliens...

Verlag: Honorà Champion, Paris

Erscheinungsdatum: 1908

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: First edition.