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The English dictionarie or, An interpreter of hard English words : enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clerkes, merchants; as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking, and writing. The third edition, reuised and enlarged (v.1-3)
Cockeram, Henry (fl. 1650)
1631
H.C. = Henry Cockeram. The author signs the dedication in full. 3 parts, of which part 2, headed "The second part of the English translator" is from simple words or expressions to "hard" ones, and...
The English dictionary : or, An interpreter of hard English words...[etc.]
Cockeram, Henry (fl. 1650)
1655
Dedication signed: Henry Cockeram. This is in fact the eleventh edition, the tenth (in 12mo; Wing C4868) having appeared in 1651. The first ed. published in 1623. Pt. 2 may be called a dictionary ...
The English dictionarie, or, An interpreter of hard English words : enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clerkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the understanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language : and the more speedie attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue both in reading, speaking, and writing
Cockeram, Henry (fl. 1650)
1642
Dedication signed: Henry Cockerman. Contents: The first part of the English dictionary--The second part of the English translator [a dictionary of synonyms]--The third part treating of gods and godd...
The English dictionarie. Or, an interpreter of hard English words : enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clerkes, merchants; as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking, and writing. The fourth edition, reuised and enlarged
Cockeram, Henry (fl. 1650)
1632
Dedication signed: Henry Cockeram. Signatures: A⁴ B-X Y⁴. Divided into 3 parts, as in the 1631 edition. English dictionarie.