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Edinburgh, London & Glasgow, A. Fullerton, nd ( c 1853). Hardback. In very good condition. 756pp in double columns with 40pp of mainly tissue guarded Illustrations of Scientific and Technical Terms. Marbled endpapers. Half polished tan leather boards with 4 raised bands on spine which has faded gilt decoration & title. .

Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co. [no date]. (Half leather) 756, 742 Plus. Good. Leather spine and corners. Raised bands and gilt lettering on faded and chipped spine with tears. Very worn on covers, a well loved item, indeed! Two large volumes with 45-50 plates (two loose) at rear of each volume. Cover separated and reattached on Volume 1. Interior is surpisingly clean and tight. Expect extra shipping..

Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co, 1853. 2 volumes, 8vo; with 80 plates (a number misbound, but all are present), lexicon in double column; 20th-century brown cloth, original black and red gilt spine label remnants preserved, new endpapers; very good and sound. Three editions only of Boag's dictionary were published. Those of 1848 and 1850 appeared under the title A Popular and Complete English Dictionary. Kennedy 6469.

Edinburgh, London and Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co., c1853. Leather. Very Good. 10" by 7". Not Stated. An illustrated two volume lexicon of the English language by the Reverend John Boag, illustrated with numerous full page plates. A detailed and technical lexicon from the mid nineteenth century, bound in full calf. Complete in two volumes.Rev. John Boag (1775-1863) was a pastor and lexicographer best known for this work, with which he aimed to combine etymology, pronunciation and scientific explanation. It took Boag three years to complete it, and it sold very successfully.With a popular English grammar, detailing the history of the language and its use.Illustrated with eighty full page plates, being illustrations of scientific and technical terms, including anatomy, architecture.Plates X, XXXIV, and XXXV have been bound into Volume II instead of Volume I.Collated and complete. Containing the bookplate of Sir Arthur Osmond Williams (1849-1927), a Welsh Liberal politician, to the front pastedown.… Read More

Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co.. Hardback. Very Good. Undated Imperial edition two volume hardback set, c.1860, in the original full tan leather binding: boards with decorative cross-hatched embossing and gilt tooling to edges; spines with five raised bands, red and black gilt title labels and gilt decoration. In overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards rubbed and slightly marked with a couple of corners worn. Bindings tight and appear almost unopened - hinges sound. Internally clean, no annotation or inscription - ownership signature neat to reverse of front endpaper in each volume; tinted page-ends slightly faded but text, marbled endpapers and illustrations (some folding) bright and clear throughout. Particularly attractive, this set is both large and very heavy at over 4kg packaged - additional postage may be required if shipped outside the UK. Photographs available. Not an old library book.