The universal etymological English dictionary: in two parts: containing I. An additional collection ... of some thousand words not in the former volume ... of proper names of persons and places in Great Britain, with their etymologies ... II. An orthographic dictionary..
by Bailey, Nathan
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London: printed for T. Cox, at the Lamb under the Royal-Exchange, 1727. First edition of Bailey's second dictionary, 8vo, pp. [960]; lexicon in double column, a few illustrations in the text; contemporary calf, blind-tooled borders, maroon morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; rubbed and worn, but sound; good. Early ownership signature on title page of Pegge Bumill. "A supplementary volume" to Bailey's An Universal Etymological Dictionary which "enjoyed a separate publishing existence" (Alston). Alston V, 95 & 127. See also Starnes & Noyes, The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, chapters XIV and XV.
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- The universal etymological English dictionary: in two parts: containing I. An additional collection ... of some thousand words not in the former volume ... of proper names of persons and places in Great Britain, with their etymologies ... II. An orthographic dictionary..
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- Bailey, Nathan
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- printed for T. Cox, at the Lamb under the Royal-Exchange
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- 1727
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