Author: STARNES, De Witt T., and NOYES, Gertrude E.
Title: The English Dictionary from Cawdry to Johnson 1604-1755
Description: Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1946. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. x, (18pp), 299pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Sharp jacket free of chips and edge tears only shows lightly tanned spine. A wonderfully tight and bright first edition of this superb study of the first century and a half of dictionaries. Rather scarce in this condition. .

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