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Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1660 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 838 Language: English Pages: 838.
Published by Printed by J.G. for Samuel Thomson, London, 1660
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardback. Condition: Good+. ~TITLE CONTINUES: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in all the four) belonging to several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided into Fiftie two Sections; with another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in all the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes) and the English translated into the other Three, to take off the reproch which useth to be cast upon Her, That She is but barren in this point, and those Proverbs She hath are but flat and empty. Moreover, there are sundry familiar Letters and Verses running all in Proverbs, with a particular Tome of the British or old Cambrian Sayd-Sawes and Adages, which the Author thought fit to annex hereunto, and make Intelligible, for their great Antiquity and Weight: Lastly, there are five Centuries of New Sayings, which, in tract of Time, may serve for Proverbs to Posterity. ~Half-title and title printed in red and black. Engraved frontis. Full tan calf. Orig. leather to boards, with double frame in black. Early 20th-century (?) near-matching spine, raised bands, double ruling in black, red gilt label. Hinges externally cracking, but only slightly slack. All edges red. Inscribed 'Titterhanger Library' to inside front board, with library plate of Eric Stanley. Mild browning to text, also scattered spotting. Pagination collated complete, though there may have been a blank between the engraving and the title page: (8), 4, (598), 24, 10 (really 12), (8), 28, (8), 24, (6), 32, (6), 40, (4), 10 pp. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Size: 22.5 x 34 x 7cm. Binding tight, text unmarked.
Published by London, Printed by J[ohn]. G[rismond]. for Cornelius Bee, at the Kings Armes in Little Brittaine, 1660., 1660
Folio. [8], 4, [310], 24, 10, [8], 28, [8], 24, [6], 32, [8], 40, [4], 10 p. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by William Faithorne. The typographic title page printed in red and black. A particular vocabulary, or Nomenclature in English, Italian, French, and Spanish and Paroimiographia [Greek transliterated]. proverbs, or, Old sayed sawes & adages each have part titles dated 1659. Bound in 19th century grained half morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. The spine ornately gilt between raised bands. A little rubbed on the edges and corners. Internally clean and tight. The verso of the front endpaper carries the small binder's stamp of Koelmer. Expertly rebacked with the original spine and label re-laid. Armorial book label of Hulton. On a blank preceding the half title is the florid signature of the French Romantic poet and novelist Alfred de Vigny dated 1862, the year before his death. In addition to his polyglot dictionary which is printed in three columns Howell gives word lists on many subjects including a library and an important collection of proverbs in the four language plus Welsh some years before Ray's collection appeared in print.
Published by Printed by J.G. for Cornelius Bee, London, 1660
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Rare First Edition of one of the most important works in the history of lexicography and a major source of the plagiarized proverbs Benjamin Franklin published in Poor Richard's Almanac. A fair copy. Ex-library: white numbers on spine, blindstamp, numbers and 'cancelled' stamp on title page, ghost of what was probably a pocket on the rear endpapers. Very old full-leather binding with 'Howell's Dictionary' on the title piece. Boards worn; corners extremely worn past leather to boards; boards once detached and now only reattached by several strips of cloth which are fairly loose. Ffep heavily chipped, with 1864 owner's name, reinforced at the foreedge. There is no half-title, first leaf is title page; two owner's names or notations, Anglesey Dec. 5 1663 and Stanford 1693. Obverse of title page blank; follows 3pp dedicatory 'To His Majesty Charles the Second'; another blank page is followed by the marvelous frontispiece which faces the introductory 'Poems by the Author.' A 6pp preface addressed 'to the tru Philologer' ends with a publisher's notice apologizing in advance for the inevitable errors in this first impression. There is some penciled marginalia in the preface and first few pages of the dictionary; there are also ink notes, much older, but nothing in the dictionary after the first 6 pages. Page 7 has piece torn from the foreedge with a few words lost. Text browning, few pages much more than most others, but everywhere legible. Dictionary followed by the phrasebook, with sections on anatomy, hunting, architecture, etc. Section on Navigation again has inked marginalia. The penciled underlines and check marks also appear occasionally. The first page of Section 50 of this part has a piece torn from foreedge, but no loss of words. The title page for this section (dated 1659) is bound in after the contents. The Proverbs or Paroimiographia section follows, also with a title page dated 1659. Apparently Franklin lifted proverbs from this section and published them in the same order (he was filling space in his Almanac and never intended or supposed that they would be ascribed to him). Full sub-title: Whereunto is Adjoined a large Nomenclature of the proper Terms (in all the four) belonging to several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided into Fiftie Two Sections;With another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in all the said Toungs, (consisting of diverse compleat Tomes) and the English translated into the other Three, to take off the reproach which useth to be cast upon Her, That She is but barren in this point, and those Proverbs She hath are both flat and empty. Moreover, There are sundry familiar Letters and Verses running in all Proverbs, with a particular Tome of the British or old Cambrian Sayed-Sawes and Adages, which the Author thought fit to annex hereunto, and make Intelligible, for their great Antiquity and Weight: Lastly, there are five Centuries of New Sayings, which, in tract of Time, may serve for Proverbs to Posterity.
Published by printed by J. G. for Samuel Thomson, London, 1660
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, folio, engraved frontispiece after W. Faithorn, title printed in red and black, text primarily in triple column; entry words in English throughout; a pleasing copy in full contemporary calf, unrestored; gilt spine, red morocco label; with the half-title (also printed in red and black); some cracking of joints at the extremities, the whole a bit scuffed and rubbed, sections of the text significantly spotted, but generally a good, sound copy. In addition to the proverbs, the book contains prefatory poems on language, a 6-p. note "To the tru philologer," and many separate sections at the back giving terminology in a number of specific jargons: i.e. anatomy, horsemanship, hunting and venery, military, nautical, architecture and "household stuff", among others. Howell (?1594-1666) was an accomplished linguist and historiographer to Charles II (see DNB for a long description of his sometimes checkered career). Besides being one of the first Englishmen to earn a livelihood out of literature, he possessed a rare mastery of the modern languages, including his native Welsh. In addition to this polyglot, Howell issued a revised edition of Cotgrave's French-English Dictionary in 1650; A New English Grammar for Foreigners (1662); and a posthumously published French grammar (1673). Alston II, 110 (noting 2 other issues of the same year); Wing H3088.