A Collection Of English Words Not Generally Used With Their Significations And Original In Two

by John Ray

$900 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: printed for Christopher Wilkinson, 1691. Second edition of the first book in English on English dialects, 12mo, pp. 22 , 211, 5 ads; full paneled calf; joints starting, corners bumped, else very good and sound. Contemporary signature of Charles F. Robinson on endpaper, with the occasional annotation in his hand, typically additional information such as the regional source of a term and one or two corrections or comments. While on his botanical

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