The universal etymological English dictionary: containing an additional collection of words (not in the first volume) ... Vol. II. The second edition, with many additions
by Bailey, Nathan
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London: printed for Thomas Cox, 1731. 8vo, pp. [880]; lexicon in double column; full contemporary paneled calf; joints cracked, top and bottom of spine chipped, red morocco label slightly defective with the loss of 3 or 4 letters; otherwise, good and sound. Armorial bookplate of the Rev. Loddington This so-called volume II, first published in 1727, and distinguishable by the definite article at the beginning of the title, enjoyed a separate publishing existence from Bailey's An Universal Etymological Dictionary. The work contains an abundance of interesting additions (many from correspondents and contributors - a now accepted practice in lexicography), accents (here first introduced in dictionaries), woodcuts in the text, and heraldic, sporting, military and navigational terms, plus a 36-p. section of canting terms and a 22-p. section of proper names, complete with etymologies. Commercially, the book paved the way for Bailey's next undertaking, the seminal Dictionarium Britannicum which Johnson used as a template for his great Dictionary of 1755. Alston V, 128.
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- The universal etymological English dictionary: containing an additional collection of words (not in the first volume) ... Vol. II. The second edition, with many additions
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- Bailey, Nathan
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