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| Carr, William (1843) | 3 |
| Ayscough, Samuel (1745-1804) | 2 |
| Birch, Thomas (1705-1766) | 2 |
| Birch, Thomas, 1671 Or 1672- | 2 |
| Bosworth, J (1789-1876) | 2 |
| Bosworth, Joseph (1876) | 2 |
| British Museum. Department of Manuscripts | 2 |
| Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753 | 2 |
| Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753) | 2 |
| Bailey, N (1742) | 1 |
An English and Welsh vocabulary, or, An easy guide to the ancient British language
Evans, Thomas of Dolgelley; Richards, Thomas (1710-1790); Walters, John (1721-1797)
1816
Special t.p. for Walters' work.
A compendious grammar of the primitive English or Anglo-Saxon language : a knowledge of which is essential to every modern English grammarian who would fully understand the true origin and idiom of his own language : being chiefly a selection of what is most valuable and practical in The elements of the Anglo-Saxon grammar : with some additional observations
Bosworth, Joseph (1876)
1826
An extract of the author's 1823 grammar.
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... [etc.]
1719
There are two gatherings signed R, the first having seven leaves only, nothing is missing from the text.
A dictionary of the Norman or old French language : collected from such Acts of Parliament, Parliament Rolls, journals, acts of state, records, law books, antient [i.e. ancient] historians and manuscripts, as relate to the nation... To which are added the laws of William the Conqueror with notes and references
Kelham, Robert (1717-1808); Wilkins, David (1685-1745)
1779
Second title page reads: The laws of William the Conqueror, with notes and reference / by Robert Kelham. London : Printed for Edward Brooke, 1779. The laws were translated by Dr. Wilkins into Latin ...
Dansk-norsk--engelsk ordbog
Larsen, A (1827-1888)
1888
Title on added t.p.: A dictionary of the Dano-Norwegian and English languages.
The essentials of Anglo-Saxon grammar : with an outline of Professor Rask and Grimm's systems
Bosworth, Joseph (1876); Rask, Rasmus Kristian (1787-1832); Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863)
1841
Previously published in: The origin of the English, Germanic and Scandinavian languages and nations / Joseph Bosworth. 1836?
[The universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure : containing news, letters, debates, poetry, music, biography, history, geography... and other arts and sciences; which may render it instructive and entertaining to gentry, merchants, farmers, and tradesmen. To which occasionally will be added an impartial account of books in several languages, and of the state of learning in Europe, also of the stage, new opera's, plays, and oratorio's.]
[1747-1803]
Originally published by John Hinton, edited in 1771 by Percival Stockdale. Pagination and register are continuous within each volume.
Excerpta antiqua; or, A collection of original manuscripts
Croft, John (1732-1820)
1797
Editor's dedication signed and dated "J. Croft, S.A.S., York, November 1796".
A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed : consisting of five thousand volumes, including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times (v.1)
Ayscough, Samuel (1745-1804); Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753); Birch, Thomas (1705-1766); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1782
"Commenced in April 1780 and published in 1782 by leave of the Trustees, but as a private venture of the compiler." -- Dict. nat. biog.