A new general English dictionary; particularly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages ... The seventh edition, with the addition of several market towns in England, Wales and Ireland

Dublin: printed for Peter Wilson, 1753. 8vo, pp. [916]; lexicon in double column; some foxing and staining, two small tears in leaves A2 and A3, joints and extremities rubbed and top of spine chipped, front joint cracked, else a good, sound copy in contemporary full calf, red morocco label on spine. Early ownership signature of "Chris. Marshall Jun. Bot at Adam's Vendur." An uncommon edition - the rarest, according to Alston - and one of only two printed in Dublin, the other also by Peter Wilson in 1744. Contains a leaf of Wilson adverts at the back. Alston V, 151 locating only the Leeds University and the Library Company copies; Vancil, p. 76; this edition (truncated) not in NUC; ESTC locates only five copies worldwide: Armagh Robinson Library, University of Leeds, ISU, Library Company, and McMaster University. (Inventory #: 64500)