Glossographia Or A Dictionary Interpreting The Hard Words Of Whatsoever Language Now Used In Our
$1,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
London: printed by Tho. Newcomb, and are to be sold by John Martyn, at the Bell without Temple Bar, 1670. 8vo, pp. 708, 2 ; text in double column; contemporary full calf, nicely rebacked to match, maroon morocco label on spine. Manuscript ownership inscription on the front free endpaper: E bib: Guil. Whittington 1677. Blount is the first lexicographer of a purely English dictionary to attempt an etymology of words ... and he deserves credit for having
- Binding: Leather
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