Author: Bailey, Nathan [Nathaniel]
Title: An Universal Etymological English Dictionary; Comprehending the Deviations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, Either Ancient or Modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian; As Also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, Each in Their Proper Characters; and Also a Brief and Clear Explication of All Difficult Words, Derived from Any of the Aforesaid Languages and Terms of Art... Together with a Large Collection and Explication of Words and Phrases Used in Our Ancient Statures, Charters, Writs, Old Records and Processes in Law... Also a Collection of Our Most Common Provergs, with Their Explication. A New Edition, Being the Twenty-Fifth
Description: Edinburgh, Neill and Company, 1783. Hardcover. Older rebinding; quarter cloth over cloth boards. Stained covers; backstrip edge-worn, with original label; hinges reinforced with binder's tape, with no tears or cracks, but holds a bit loosely; pages slightly toned and foxed; top margin of pages slightly cut into text with some loss, mainly the header words; outside margin of first pages slightly frayed, with small section lacking at bottom corner of first two leaves; previous owners penciled name on preliminary blank and inked on title page; otherwise very good condition. Unnumbered pages. Thick volume. .

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