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Description : Title: Dictionarium Britannicum: Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant. Containing Not Only the Words, and Their Explication, But Their Etymologies from the Antient British, Teutonick, Low and High Dutch, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Modern French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, &c., Each in Its Proper Character. Also Explaining Hard and Technical Words, or Terms of Art, in All the Arts, Sciences, and Mysteries following. Together with Accents Directing to Their Proper Pronuntiation, Shewing both the Orthography and Orthoepia of the English Tongue, Viz. in Agriculture, Algebra, Anatomy, Architecture, Arithmetick, Astrology, Astronomy, Botanicks, Catoptricks, Chymistry, Chyromangy, Chirurgery, Confectionary, Cookery, Cosmography, Dialling, Dioptricks, Ethicks, Fishing, Fortification, Gardening, Gauging, Geography, Geometry, Grammar, Gunnery, Handicrafts, Hawking, Heraldry, Horsemanship, Husbandry, Hydraulicks, Hydrography, Hydrostaticks, Law, Logick, Maritime and Military Affairs, Mathematicks, Mechanicks, Merchandize, Metaphysicks, Meteorology, Navigation, Opticks, Otacousticks, Painting, Perspective, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physick, Physiognomy, Pyrotechny, Rhetorick, Sculpture, Staticks, Statuary, Surveying, Theology, and Trigonometry. Illustrated with near Five Hundred Cuts, for Giving a Clearer Idea of Those Figures, Not So Well Apprehended by Verbal Description. Likewise a Collection and Explanation of Words and Phrases Us'd in Our Antient Charters, Statutes, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law. Also the Theogony, Theology, and Mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c., Being an Account of their Deities, Solemnities, either Religious or Civil, their Divinations, Auguries, Oracles, Hieroglyphicks, and Many Other curious Matters, Necessary To Be Understood, Especially by the Readers of English Poetry. To which Is Added, a Collection of Proper Names of Persons and Places in Great-Britain, with Their Etymologies and Explications. The Whole Digested into an Alphabetical Order, Not Only for the Information of the Ignorant, but the Entertainment of the Curious , and also the Benefit of Artificers, Tradesmen, Young Students and Foreigners. A Work Useful for Such As Would Understand What They Read and Hear, Speak What They Mean, and Write True English. Collected by Several Hands, the Mathematical Part by G. Gordon, the Botanical by P. Miller. The Whole Revis'd and Improv'd, with Many Thousand Additions, by N. Bailey.Author: George Gordon, Nathan Bailey - Nathan Bailey was an English philologist and lexicographer.Bailey, with John Kersey the younger, was a pioneer of English lexicography, and changed the scope of dictionaries of the language. Greater comprehensiveness became the common ambition. Up to the early eighteenth century, English dictionaries had generally focused on hard words and their explanation, for example those of Thomas Blount and Edward Phillips in the generation before. With a change of attention, to include more commonplace words and those not of direct interest to scholars, the number of headwords in English dictionaries increased dramatically. Innovations were in the areas of common words, dialect, technical terms, and vulgarities. Thomas Chatterton, the literary forger, also obtained many sham-antique words from reading Bailey and Kersey.Bailey's An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, from its publication in 1721, became the most popular English dictionary of the 18th century, and went through nearly thirty editions. It was a successor to Kersey's A New English Dictionary (1702), and drew on it. A supplementary volume of his dictionary appeared in 1727, and in 1730 a folio edition, the Dictionarium Britannicum containing many technical terms. Bailey had collaborators, for example John Martyn who worked on botanical terms in 1725.Samuel Johnson made an interleaved copy the foundation of his own Johnson's Dictionary. The 1755 edition of Bailey's dictionary bore the name of Joseph Nicol Scott also, it was published years after Bailey's death, but months only after Johnson's dictionary appeared. Now often known as the Scott-Bailey or Bailey-Scott dictionary, it contained relatively slight revisions by Scott, but massive plagiarism from Johnson's work. A twentieth-century lexicographer, Philip Babcock Gove, attacked it retrospectively on those grounds. In all, thirty editions of the dictionary appeared, the last at Glasgow in 1802, in reprints and versions by different booksellers.Bailey's dictionary was also the basis of English-German dictionaries. These included those edited by Theodor Arnold (3rd edition, 1761), Anton Ernst Klausing (8th edition, 1792), and Johann Anton Fahrenkrüger (11th edition, 1810).Bailey also published a spelling-book in 1726, All the Familiar Colloquies of Erasmus Translated, 1733, of which a new edition appeared in 1878, The Antiquities of London and Westminster, 1726, Dictionarium Domesticum, 1736, Selections from Ovid and Phædrus, and English and Latin Exercises. In 1883 appeared English Dialect Words of the Eighteenth Century as shown in the . . . Dictionary of N. Bailey, with an introduction by W. E. A. Axon (English Dialect Society), giving biographical and bibliographical details. (Information courtesy of Wikipedia), Philip MillerPublisher: Printed for T. CoxCity: LondonYear: 1730Binding Style: HardcoverPagination: 818 pagesWidth: 9.5 Height: 13.75Book Details: Condition / Notes: This antique full leather volume with raised bands has detached boards and heavy wear to the spine cover, with loss of material, including to gilt-lettered spine label. The covers display heavy rubbing, scuffing and loss at edges. The text block is intact. The bookplate of the Boston-Library society appears on the front pastedown, with the perforated stamp of the society at the bottom margin of the title page. An old signature can be seen at the top of the title page, the date 1730 is written in pencil at the bottom. The title page is printed in red and black. The pages are clean and without markings. The entries are in double columns. This work contains many textual illustration, a large number of which are heraldic. The dedication page has the coat-of-arms of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke and 5th Earl of Montgomery, to whom this work is dedicated. A small hand-drawn illustration depicting a man's head can be seen in the margin of page beginning with the word rationale. A publisher's advertisement appears on the final page.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $10.50
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