A critical pronouncing dictionary, and expositor of the English language... The twenty-seventh edition

London: stereotyped by A. Wilson for T. Cadell, [et al.], 1825. 8vo, pp. [2], 601, [1]; full contemporary straight-grain morocco rubbed, front free endpaper wanting; a good, sound copy or better. Engraved bookplates of Elizabeth Alsop, and with her ownership signature at the top of the title page dated 1826; and on the rear pastedown the bookplate of Montagu Egerton Loftus. Loftus (1860-1934) was Vice-Consul in Corsica and was a King´s Messenger. Educated at Eton, he was in H. M. Consular Service. Kennedy 6308. (Inventory #: 64537)