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Archive Print Item: English A-0.24/LOW

English surnames : An essay on family nomenclature, historical, etymological, and humorous; with several illustrative appendices (v.1)

Lower, Mark Antony (1813-1876)

1849

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Archive Print Item: English A-0.24/LOW

English surnames : An essay on family nomenclature, historical, etymological, and humorous; with several illustrative appendices (v.2)

Lower, Mark Antony (1813-1876)

1849

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Archive Print Item: Large Celtic F-0.19 ARM

A Gaelic dictionary in two parts : I. Gaelic and English. II. English and Gaelic : in which the words in their different acceptations are illustrated by quotations from the best Gaelic writers, and their affinities traced in most of the languages of ancient and modern times : with a short historical appendix of ancient names deduced from the authority of Ossian and other poets, to which is prefixed A New Gaelic Grammar

Armstrong, R A (1788-1867)

1825

Spine title: Lexicon gaelico-anglicum.

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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: 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: 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 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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