The English dictionarie. Or, an interpreter of hard English words: enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clerkes, merchants; as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking, and writing. The sixt edition, reuised and enlarged. By H.C. Gent

Cockeram, Henry

Published by printed by T. Cotes, for Thomas Weaver, and are to be sold by Iohn Crooke, and Richard Serger, at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard, London, 1639

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Small 8vo, pp. [336]; collating: A? B-X? Y?; recent full paneled calf antique; the occasional spot or stain, but generally a fine copy. Early ownership inscriptions of "T. Ely," and a slightly later one of "Jane Cromwell Ely, given me by Mama." First published in 1623, this is the third dictionary of purely English words, preceded only by those of Cawdrey and Bulloker. This book is in three parts. The first part is a purely English dictionary; the second part, may be called a dictionary for translating plain English into fine English; and the third part treats of much quaint and out-of-the-way information concerning "Giants and Devils, Birds and Beasts, Monsters and Serpents, Wells and Rivers, Herbs, Stones, Trees, Dogs, Fishes and the like." Alston V, 37; Kennedy 6167; STC 5466. ESTC locates only 11 of this edition (Huntington, N.Y. Public, Trinity, UCLA and Illinois only in the U.S.). Seller Inventory # 64469

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Title: The English dictionarie. Or, an interpreter ...

Publisher: printed by T. Cotes, for Thomas Weaver, and are to be sold by Iohn Crooke, and Richard Serger, at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard, London

Publication Date: 1639