[COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET]. THE COMPLETE ENGLISH DICTIONARY: OR, GENERAL REPOSITORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. CONTAINING A COPIOUS EXPLANATION OF ALL THE WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE; TOGETHER WITH THEIR DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS, VIZ. I. THE WORDS, AND THE VARIOUS SENSES IN WHICH THEY ARE USED. II. THE TRUE PRONUNCIATION POINTED OUT BY BEING PROPERLY ACCENTED. III. INITIAL LETTERS PLACED TO DENOTE THE PART OF SPEECH TO WHICH EACH WORD BELONGS. IV. A GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. V. A MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTIES, CITIES, AND PRINCIPAL TOWNS IN ENGLAND AND WALES, THAN HAS EVER APPEARED IN ANY BOOK OF THIS KIND. VI. AS THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS, AND OTHERS, CELEBRATED FOR THEIR LEARNING AND GEN

Barlow, Frederick.

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Leather bound first edition hardbacks; there is a frontispiece and signatures [4] + a-3T2, A1-3N6, a-b8, there are seventeen further plates it is ESTC T88703 complete. The volumes are bound in rubbed mismatched half leather with marbled boards, the h inges are strong; the first gather of the first volume is partially detached, one plate is detached, everything else is well bound in. The first title page is stained, there is some light browning throughout and some light foxing in places.

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• Titre: [COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET]. THE COMPLETE ENGLISH DICTIONARY: OR, GENERAL REPOSITORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. CONTAINING A COPIOUS EXPLANATION OF ALL THE WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE; TOGETHER WITH THEIR DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS, VIZ. I. THE WORDS, AND THE VARIOUS SENSES IN WHICH THEY ARE USED. II. THE TRUE PRONUNCIATION POINTED OUT BY BEING PROPERLY ACCENTED. III. INITIAL LETTERS PLACED TO DENOTE THE PART OF SPEECH TO WHICH EACH WORD BELONGS. IV. A GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FOUR QUARTERS ...
• Éditeur: For the Author and sold by T. Evans… 1772
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale