Books by Bailey Nathan

London: T. Osborne, C. Hitch [et al.]. 1759. 8vo, [16] & unpaginated lexicon in double column; full contemporary calf rebacked in tan morocco, black morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; new endpapers; good and sound, or better. Alston V, 111. ... more information

London: printed for R. Buckland, J. Beecroft [et al.]. 1770. 8vo, pp. [16] plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; slightly later full polished black calf neatly rebacked with old spine laid down, blind- tooled borders on covers, red morocco label on spine; extremities rubbed, but generally good and sound. Alston V, 117. ... more information

London: printed for J. Darby [et al.]. 1726. 8vo, pp. [16], unpaginated lexicon in double column; internally fine; full contemporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked, old spine laid down, top and bottom of spine with old repairs; otherwise, a good, sound copy. Alston V, 96. ... more information

London: printed for T. Cox. 1727. First edition of Bailey's second dictionary, 8vo, pp. [8] & unpaginated lexicon in double column, a few illustrations in the text; full contemporary paneled calf neatly rebacked, old spine laid down, red morocco label; a good, sound copy. "A supplementary volume" which "enjoyed a separate publishing existence" (Alston). Alston V, 95 & 127. See also Starnes & Noyes, The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, chapters XIV and XV. ... more information

London: E. Bell, J. Darby [et al.]. 1724. 8vo, pp. [16], unpaginated lexicon in double column; Alston V, 95; Kennedy 6215; Vancil, p. 12; together with Bailey, N[athan], The universal etymological dictionary … Vol. II … The second edition with many additions, London: Thomas Cox, 1731; first edition, pp. [8], unpaginated lexicon in double column; a few woodcut illustrations in the text of a mostly heraldic nature; both volumes in contemporary full paneled calf (but not matching exactly), neatly reb... more information

London: printed for T. Osborn [et al.]. 1761. 8vo, pp. [1] ads, [16], unpaginated lexicon in double column, [1] ads; Alston V, 112; Kennedy 6255; together, and uniformly bound with the separately published volume II: Bailey, N[athan], The universal etymological dictionary… The seventh [and last] edition… London: William Cavell, 1776, pp. [6], unpaginated lexicon in double column; title within a metal-cut border, a few woodcut illustrations in the text of a mostly heraldic nature; Alston V, 135 (lo... more information