Dictionarium Anglo Britannicum Or A General English Dictionary Comprehending A Brief But

by John Kersey

$1,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed by J. Wilde, for J. Phillips et al. , 1708. First edition of the first abridged English dictionary, 8vo, unpaginated collated and complete ; 20th-century half mottled brown morcoco over marbled boards, black gilt-lettered spine label, supplied endpapers; occasional spotting throughout, else textblock very good and sound. Alston V, 91 an unconfessed abridgement of Kersey's revision of Phillip's dictionary - the New World of English Words,

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