REFERENCE LIBRARY.

£2,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Five reference books in contemporary bookform case. An attractive, well-preserved example of a Georgian desktop reference library, in a custom book-form case, comprising French and English dictionaries, two geographical works, and a dictionary of biography. Provenance: with the contemporary ownership signature to the initial binder's blanks of Annette Bradford, and her bookplate to the inner lid. Little could be traced for Bradford; an Annette Bradford, "eldest daughter of the late W. Bradford of Jamaica", is recorded as marrying in 1826 Charles Rodwell Roper, Rector of St Olave and headmaster of Mount Radford school in Exeter (The Quarterly Theological Review, vol. III, 1826, p. 533).Comprising: i) A Compendious Geographical and Historical Grammar. London: Printed for W. Peacock and Sons, and J. Scatcherd, by T. Rickaby, 1802. Second edition (first published 1795).ii) The Royal Pocket Dictionary, French and English, and English and French. London: Printed for G. and C. and J. Robinson, H. Gardner, Ogilvy and Speare [& 8 others in London], 1795. First edition.iii) A Dictionary of the English Language. London: Printed for W. Peacock, 1797. Fifth edition (first published 1785).iv) A New Biographical Dictionary. London: Printed by T. Bensley, for G. C. and J. Robinson, J. Wallis, J. Scatcherd, W. Peacock, and E. Newberry, 1799. Third edition (first published 1794).v) A Compendious Geographical Dictionary. London: Printed for W. Peacock, 1795. Second edition (first published 1793

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