Glossographia Anglicana nova: or, a dictionary, interpreting such hard words of whatever language, as are at present used in the English tongue, with their etymologies, definitions, &c. Also, the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks, history, agriculture, logick, metaphysicks, grammar, poetry, musick, heraldry, architecture, painting, war, and all other arts and sciences are herein explain d, from the best modern authors, as, Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Harris, Dr. Gregory, Mr. Lock, Mr. Evelyn, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Blunt, &c

Published by printed for Dan. Brown, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe, M. Newborough, John Nicholson , Benj. Took, D. Midwinter, and Fran. Coggan, London, 1707

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First edition, 8vo, pp. [584]; woodcut illustrations in the text, primarily heraldic; leaves B7 and B8 with odd smudge (not obscuring any text); slight worm track to margins of first several leaves; all else very good and sound in recent mottled calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine. "The first English dictionary to make any considerable use of woodcuts; the next development in this respect does not appear until 1727, when Bailey in his Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Volume II, illustrates scientific as well as heraldic terms" (Starnes & Noyes, p. 94). Often passed off as a later edition of Blount because of its similar title and design, this dictionary, while owing a debt to Blount, is in fact a new work by an anonymous author who placed an emphasis on science, which Starnes & Noyes call "the most formative and forward-looking feature" of it. In fact, pages [7-8] are proposals for printing Harris' Lexicon Technicum. Alston V, 89. Seller Inventory # 64503

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Title: Glossographia Anglicana nova: or, a ...

Publisher: printed for Dan. Brown, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe, M. Newborough, John Nicholson , Benj. Took, D. Midwinter, and Fran. Coggan, London

Publication Date: 1707

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition