Dictionarium Anglo Britannicum Or A General English Dictionary Comprehending A Brief But

by John Kersey

$850 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed by J. Wilde, for J. Phillips et al. , 1708. First edition of the first abridged English dictionary, 8vo, unpaginated, collating A² B-Z⁴ 2a-2h⁴ 2A-3N⁴ 4A-4O⁴ 4P² 4Q-4X⁴; contemporary paneled calf, neat 20th-century rebacking, gilt-lettered direct on spine; endpapers renewed but old endpapers laid down preserving provenance see below ; title page loosening at the bottom and browned, front hinge cracked after the second leaf,

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