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F. Wingrave, 1804. Full calf, spine worn at top and bottom

various. Bryer, H (printer), London, 1814. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. The dictionary has a marbled board cover with leather edges at the front and quarter spine. The cover is much worn on its body and edges. The leather corners are much worn about through to the board body. The back cover is also much worn to the board base. The leather spine is cracked and worn. It has open tears. The print is not entirely legible. Binding is admirably virile and in full body. Although the body of the book has cracks to the spine seams the book is firmly affixed with no loose pages. There are previous owner inscriptions on the frontispage. All pages are mottled, spotted and marked by age and storage. The back of the dictionary has been affected by damp storage conditions and resulted in staining to the back papers, bubbling and crispness to the texture. Consequently these pages are more delicate than the majority of the volume. The pages are cleanly trimmed. The trim edges are marked by age… Read More

London: F. Wingrave; F. C. & J. Rivington et al, 1814. Leather. Good. 9" by 5.5". None. The fifth edition of this two-part French-English dictionary, bound in the contemporary leather. This early nineteenth century French dictionary is set out in two parts; the first from French to English, the second from English to French.With a French grammar prefixed by Thomas Deletanville, an educator of French and Latin.The revised fifth edition of this well-received dictionary.A reliable example of a French dictionary, bound in contemporary leather. In the original full calf binding. Externally a trifle rubbed to the leather, in particular the raised bands and joints; extremities are a little bumped. Contemporary ownership inscription to the title page. Internally, binding is generally firm, with a little strain at the title page. Pages are occasionally spotted. Good

London: printed for F. Wingrave [et al.], 1814. Fifth edition "carefully revised and corrected," tck. 8vo, 2 parts in 1 (as issued), with the leaf of ads at the beginning of part II; xvi & unpaginated lexicon in triple column; viii & unpaginated lexicon; a good, firm copy in full contemporary mottled calf. Intended as an improvement over Boyer, with much hoopla in the author's preface about the merits of his own.