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An abridgement of the last quarto edition of Ainsworth's Dictionary, English and Latin : the English part being enriched with an addition of some thousand words from good authority : and the Latin part consisting only of such words as are purely classical : designed for the use of schools

Archive Print Item: Thompson Collection 87/AIN

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Type of record: Book

Title: An abridgement of the last quarto edition of Ainsworth's Dictionary, English and Latin : the English part being enriched with an addition of some thousand words from good authority : and the Latin part consisting only of such words as are purely classical : designed for the use of schools

Other titles: Thesaurus linguae latinae compendarius

Level: Item

Classmark: Thompson Collection 87/AIN

Creator(s): Ainsworth, Robert (1660-1743)

Additional creator(s): Morell, Thomas (1703-1784) (Other)

Related people: Morell, Thomas

Publisher: Printed by Charles Rivington, for J. Pote... [et. al.]

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1785

Language: English

Size and medium: [1076] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/330267

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002639399705181

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First published (London, 1736) with title: Thesaurus linguae latinae compendarius.

Additional description

Names C. Vaughan , 1788 (back free endpaper) Robert Knowles , 1824 (front free endpaper) Brian Bates , Buxton, 1866 (front pastedown Alexander Laing , 1927 (front free endpaper).

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