The English Dictionary Or An Interpreter Of Hard English Words Enabling As Well Ladies And

by Henry Cockeram

$4,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: printed by A. Miller and are to be sold by A. Crooke, at the Green-Dragon in St Pauls Church-yard, 1650. Small 8vo, contemporary full calf neatly rebacked, gilt lettered direct on spine; very good, sound copy. Engraved armorial bookplate of Francis Edward Freeland. First published in 1623, this is the third dictionary of purely English words, preceded only by those of Cawdrey and Bulloker. This book is in three parts. The first part is a purely English

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