British Synonymy Or An Attempt At Regulating The Choice Of Words In Familiar Conversation

by Hester Lynch Piozzi

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: G. G. & J. Robinson, 1794. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. 2 , viii, 423; 4 , 416; bound without the half-title in volume I but present in volume II in contemporary full speckled calf, smooth gilt-decorated spines, gilt-lettered direct; some wear, the joints starting at the extremities; all else very good and the bindings sound. Piozzi's work, her favorite, is intended for the use of foreigners in Britain that he or she might learn the

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