A rhyming dictionary: answering, at the same time, the purposes of spelling and pronouncing the English language

by John Walker

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: printed for J. Johnson et al. , 1806. Second edition, improved, 8vo, 2 volumes in one, pp. xxiii, 1 , 347, 1 ; 4 , 348; a clean copy, but in a very scuffed and somewhat worn contemporary paneled calf binding. An actor under the management of Garrick and a lecturing elocutionist, Walker published in 1774 A General Idea of a Pronouncing Dictionary. His seminal pronouncing dictionary was not published until 1791, but its roots are clearly

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