Lexicon tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary : 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... : more over, there are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs, with a particular tome of the Brittish or old Cambrian sayed sawes and adages, which the author thought fit to annex hereunto ... : lastly, there are five centuries of new sayings which, in tract of time, may serve for proverbs to posterity
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Title: Lexicon tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary : 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... : more over, there are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs, with a particular tome of the Brittish or old Cambrian sayed sawes and adages, which the author thought fit to annex hereunto ... : lastly, there are five centuries of new sayings which, in tract of time, may serve for proverbs to posterity
Other titles: Particular vocabulary, or, Nomenclature in English, Italian, French, and Spanish; [Paroimiographia]; Proverbs, or, Old sayed sawes & adages; Howell's dictionary
Classmark: BC Lg q/HOW
Creator(s): Howell, James (1594?-1666)
Additional creator(s): Grismond, John (Other); Bee, Cornelius (Other)
Related people: Grismond, John; Bee, Cornelius
Publisher: Printed by J[ohn] G[rismond] for Cornelius Bee, at the Kings Armes in Little Brittaine
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1660
Language: English
Size and medium: 3 pts in 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286337
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002255509705181
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Half-title page reads: Howell's dictionary.
Engraved illustrated frontispiece.
Part [2], "A particular vocabulary, or nomenclature...[etc.]", bears imprint "London, printed by Thomas Leach, 1659".
Part [3], "Paroimiographia. Proverbs...[etc.]", bears imprint "London, printed by J.G., 1659" This corresponds to Wing H3098, but is signed a2.
Also has title: Howell's dictionary.
Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) H3087.
Additional description
Engraved frontispiece bound to face away from title-page. Address to reader in part [2] misbound at end of part. Wanting blank leaf [A1] before Spanish proverbs. With library stamp of Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali on title-page and bookplate and signature of R.M. Beverley
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