A Collection Of English Words Not Generally Used With Their Significations And Original In Two

by John Ray

$2,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed by H. Bruges for Tho. Burrell, at the Golden-Ball under St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1674. First edition of the first book on English dialects, and the first English dialect dictionary; small 8vo, pp. 14 , 1 -178 i.e. 148 ; blank leaves A1 and L4 are not preserved; Title page printed in red and black; bottom margin trimmed close with the loss of one catchword; small worm track in lower outer corner of title page extending in 3 leaves;

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