Francisci Junii Francisci Filii Etymologicum Anglicanum Ex Autographo Descripsit

by Francis Junius

$2,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1743. First edition, folio, pp. 40 , 624 ; collating A-E², a-e², A-6S², engraved portrait frontispiece by G. Vertu, 8-page subscriber list containing many important names of the day; contemporary marbled boards, with a neat, 20th-century rebacking in calf, red morocco label; a very nice copy, internally very clean. A rare, uncut copy. Junius was an early proponent for the study of Anglo-Saxon, and a life-long

• Binding: Leather

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