A Dictionary, English-latin, And Latin-english;.
Bound in original calf; spine in compartments with raised bands decorated gilt with contrasting maroon title label. Extremities worn and edges darkened with a few stains but interior still clean and crisp.
£165.00
Publisher
Printed for S. Ballard, R. Ware, W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt [and 27 others].,
Place
London
Date
1775
Synopsis
Containing all things necessary for the translating of either language into the other. to which end many things that were erroneous, are rectified, many superfluities retrenched, and very many defects supplied. and all suited to the meanest capacities, in a plainer method than heretofore: being for ease reduced into an alphabetical order, and explained in the mother-tongue. and towards the compleating the english part (which hath been long desired) here are added thousands of words, phrases, proverbs, proper names, and many other useful things mentioned in the preface to the work. the sixteenth edition, with large additions. by elisha coles, late of magdalen-college, oxon.
Item Description
8vo. 5.5 x 8 inches. Unpaginated [c.1000] pp. Latin and English section has separate register. Text in three columns.
Notes
The lexicographer, Elisha Coles (1640?-1680) published bestselling English language and Latin dictionaries. The Latin title appeared in eighteen editions, 1677-1772. This sixteenth edition is scarce; ESTC records no copies in UK libraries and only two in North America.
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