A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary Containing Not Only Explanations Of The Words

by Bailey Athan

$1,750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed for T. Osborne; J. Buckland, and R. Baldwin; and W. Johnston, 1764. Large folio, pp. xviii plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; engraved frontispiece, 12 engraved plates on 11 sheets ; full contemporary calf, joints and spine ends strengthened, extremities rubbed, nice enough copy. First printed in 1755, the year of the first edition of Johnson, the so-called Scott-Bailey was published to recapture its waning influence in the dictionary

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