Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum, Lexico Gul. Somneri magna parte auctius.
by BENSON, Thomas
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Oxford, Sheldonian Theater (on engr. title: London, Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford), 1701. With engr. title (by Michael Burghers), engr. title vignette. (96) leaves. Small 4to. Contemp. calf (repaired). Signature of George Coleridge, Warden House, Otterly (St. Mary) on front pastedown (brother of Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Oxford, Sheldonian Theater (on engr. title: London, Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford), 1701. Standard work by Th. Benson (1654-1715), an abridgement of William Somner's "Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum" (1659). An inserted letter by W. Povey, Univ. of Liverpool Library, states that the book came from the library of W. H. Coleridge, which was bought by George Coleridge. A pencil note in the back states that another title published at Oxford 1698 bears the same engraving, which is signed there by the Dutch engraver M. Burghers. A copy of this book was also in Thomas Jefferson's library. - Name cut off from upper outer corner of printed title-page. - Allston III, 9; cf. Hoefer V, 403-04 (Benson) and XLIV, 177-78 (Somner: "c'est son meilleur ouvrage"). LINGUISTIC / DICTIONARIES ;
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- Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat (CH)
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- Title
- Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum, Lexico Gul. Somneri magna parte auctius.
- Author
- BENSON, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Oxford, Sheldonian Theater (on engr. title: London, Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford)
- Date Published
- 1701
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- LINGUISTIC / DICTIONARIES ;
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