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BARLOW, FREDERICK REVEREND. The Complete English Dictionary. London; for the author, [1772].
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BARLOW, FREDERICK REVEREND.
The Complete English Dictionary. London; for the author, [1772].
2 vols., 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and 17 engraved plates of technical apparatus. Some text leaves stained. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Provenance Thomas Twicker (signed and dated 1810 on front free endpaper); Henry Simper (signed and dated Wiltshire, 1846).
WITH: 7 other dictionaries and glossaries:
KERSEY, JOHN. General English Dictionary. 2 copies, London: 1708 and 1721. * [GROSE, FRANCIS]. A Classical dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. 2 editions, London: 1785 and 1823. * GROSE'S DICTIONARY OF BUCKISH SLANG. London: 1811. * and two other Dictionaries.
2 vols., 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and 17 engraved plates of technical apparatus. Some text leaves stained. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Provenance Thomas Twicker (signed and dated 1810 on front free endpaper); Henry Simper (signed and dated Wiltshire, 1846).
WITH: 7 other dictionaries and glossaries:
KERSEY, JOHN. General English Dictionary. 2 copies, London: 1708 and 1721. * [GROSE, FRANCIS]. A Classical dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. 2 editions, London: 1785 and 1823. * GROSE'S DICTIONARY OF BUCKISH SLANG. London: 1811. * and two other Dictionaries.