Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant : containing not only the words, and their explication, but their etymologies... Also explaining hard and technical words ... Illustrated with near five hundred cuts ... Likewise a collection and explanation of words and phrases us'd in our antient charters, statutes, writs ... Also the ... mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. ... To which is added a collection of proper names of persons and places in Great-Britain ... Collected by several hands
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Title: Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant : containing not only the words, and their explication, but their etymologies... Also explaining hard and technical words ... Illustrated with near five hundred cuts ... Likewise a collection and explanation of words and phrases us'd in our antient charters, statutes, writs ... Also the ... mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. ... To which is added a collection of proper names of persons and places in Great-Britain ... Collected by several hands
Other titles: A more compleat universal etymological English dictionary; Universal etymological English dictionary
Classmark: Early Dictionaries B-1 folio BAI
Creator(s): Bailey, N (1742)
Additional creator(s): Gordon, George (1716-1728) (Other); Miller, Philip (1691-1771) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for T. Cox
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1730
Language: English
Size and medium: 818 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/235700
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012946419705181
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Advertisement on p. [818].
Title page printed in red and black.
"This embraces, in one arrangement, the contents of the two volumes of the 'Universal etymological English dictionary'"--BM.
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