The Complete English Dictionary or, general repository of the English language. Containing A Copious Explanation of all the Words in the English Language;.

London: printed for the author, and sold by T. Evans, at No. 54, in Pater-Noster Row; F. Blyth, [1772].

Price: $750.00


About the item

Engraved frontispiece and 17 engraved plates of technical apparatus. 2 vols. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in two different shades of brown. Some leaves stained in lightly margins. Provenance Thomas Twicker (signed and dated 1810 on front free endpaper); Henry Simper (signed and dated Wiltshire, 1846). ESTC T88703.

Item #319346

Some text leaves stained. The prefatory notice is dated Feb. 1, 1772; issued in 24 weekly numbers beginning October 31, 1772.