A new universal English dictionary: or a complete treasure of the English language. Tracing the words from their primitive fountains ... compiled with the utmost care and assiduity

London: printed by W. Griffin, for I. Pottinger, 1759. First and only edition, folio, pp. [720]; collating [A]² B-8T²; lexicon in double column; engraved emblematic frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, title page printed in red and black; some dampstaining to the frontispiece and title, marginal worming in the first half-dozen leaves, minor marginal dampstaining throughout; contemporary full calf, red morocco label on spine; corners worn and showing, slight cracking of the joints but by and large a good, sound copy of a rare book, published in weekly numbers. A Cordell Collection duplicate, with bookplate. And with an early ownership signature of J. Andrews, (truncated) 1772 on the front free endpaper, and the 1918 signature of John C. Clark (4 times) in pencil on the front pastedown. Alston V, 224; Kennedy 6252; not in Zaunmuller. Kennedy also cites an edition of 1766, as cited by Watt in Bibliotheca Britannica, 1824 which is likely an error as there is no other edition located by Alston, British Museum Catalogue, or the NUC, which locates only 3 copies (SMU, Penn., and LC) to which Alston adds only 1 more in the U.S. at Yale. ESTC locates 15 copies worldwide: Harvard, Yale, Penn, UCLA, ISU, LC, NY Historical, and Perkins School of Theology in the U.S. (Inventory #: 64397)