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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries B-1 folio BAI

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

Bailey, N (1742); Gordon, George (1716-1728); Miller, Philip (1691-1771)

1730

Advertisement on p. [818]. Title page printed in red and black.

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Archive Print part: Large Roth Collection 580

Lista das pessoas, que sahiraõ, condenacções, que tiveraõ, e sentenças, que se lêraõ no auto da fé, que se celebrou na Igreja do Convento de S. Domingos desta cidade de Lisboa em 24. de setembro de 1747 : sendo Inquisidor Geral o eminentissimo, e reverendissimo Senhor Nuno da Cunha

[1747]

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Archive Print part: Large Roth Collection 580

Lista das pessoas, que sahiraõ, condenacções, que tiveraõ, e sentenças, que se lêraõ no auto publico da fé, que se celebrou na Igreja do Convento de S. Domingos desta cidade de Lisboa em 24. de setembro de 1752

[1752]

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Archive Print part: Large Roth Collection 580

Lista das pessoas, que sahiraõ, condenacções, que tiveraõ, e sentenças, que se lêraõ no auto publico da fé, que se celebrou na Igreja do Convento de S. Domingos desta cidade de Lisboa em 16. de outubro de 1746

[1746]

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Archive Print Item: Barbier Collection B-1.1/BAI

The universal etymological English dictionary : containing an additional collection of words (not in the first volume) with their explications and etymologies... Also an explication of hard and technical words, or terms, in all arts and sciences ... Illustrated with above five hundred cuts ... Likewise a collection and explanation of words and phrases us'd in our ancient charters, statues [sic], writs ... To which is added, an additional collection of proper names of persons and places in Great Britain ... Vol. II

Bailey, N (1742)

1731

Statement of responsibility follows edition statement. Although called Vol. II, this is a supplement to the author's An universal etymological English dictionary. Cf. Alston, R.C. Engl. language. ...

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Archive Print Item: YAS 1008

An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue, either ancient or modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper characters : and also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words derived from any of the aforesaid languages; and terms of art relating to anatomy, botany, physick, pharmacy, surgery, chymistry, philosophy, divinity, mathematicks, grammar, logick, rhetorick, musick, heraldry, maritime affairs, military discipline, horsemanship, hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing, gardening, husbandry, handicrafts, confectionary, carving, cookery, &c. : together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases us’d in our ancient statutes, charters, writs, old records, and processes at law ; and the etymology and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain : also the dialects of our different counties. Containing many thousand words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English Dictionary before extant. To which is added a collection of our most common proverbs, with their explication and illustration. The whole work compil’d and methodically digested, as well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant, and for the benefit of young students, artificers, tradesmen and foreigners, who are desirous thorowly to understand what they speak, read, or write

Bailey, N (1742)

MDCXXVIII [1728]

Indexed in: ESTC,

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Archive Print Item: Ripon Cathedral Library VII.C.9

The universal etymological English dictionary : containing an additional collection of words (not in the first volume) with their explications and etymologies... Also an explication of hard and technical words, or terms, in all arts and sciences ... Illustrated with above five hundred cuts ... Likewise a collection and explanation of words and phrases us'd in our ancient charters, statues [sic], writs ... To which is added, an additional collection of proper names of persons and places in Great Britain ... Vol. II

Bailey, N (1742)

1731

Statement of responsibility follows edition statement. Although called Vol. II, this is a supplement to the author's An universal etymological English dictionary. Cf. Alston, R.C. Engl. language. ...

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Archive Print Item: BC Lg/BAI

An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue...containing many thousand words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English dictionary before extant

Bailey, N (1742)

1721

First edition.

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Archive Print Item: Ripon Cathedral Library VII.C.8

An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases us'd in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain ... To which is added, a collection of our most common proverbs

Bailey, N (1742)

1731

Statement of responsibility follows edition statement.

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Archive Print Item: Wentworth-Woolley Hall P86

Remaines of a greater worke, concerning Britaine, the inhabitants thereof, their languages, names, surnames, empreses, wise speeches, poësies, and epitaphes

Camden, William (1551-1623); Eld, George (1624); Waterson, Simon (fl. 1584-1634)

1605

Dedication signed: M. N. [i.e. [Willia]m [Camde]n]. "Certaine poemes, or poesies, epigrammes, rythmes, and epitaphs" has a separate half-title on p. [236], separate pagination and register. Printe...

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Archive Print Item: BC Lg/BAI

The universal etymological English dictionary: in two parts : containing, I. An additional collection...II. An orthographical dictionary... : Vol. II

Bailey, N (1742)

1727

First edition. Although called Vol. II, this is a supplement to the author's An universal etymological English dictionary.

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