An Universal Etymological English Dictionary Comprehending The Derivations Of The Generality

by Nathan Bailey

$2,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed for E. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton and 5 others , 1721. First edition of one of the most influential of all English dictionaries, 8vo, pp. 968 ; lexicon in double column, 3A2-3A3 apparently supplied from another copy, light spotting and staining throughout, but generally a very good, sound copy in recent full brown calf. Bailey's An Universal Etymological Dictionary of 1721, which reached a 30th edition by 1802,

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