1742 · Londres
by BOYER, A[BEL]
Londres: D. Midwinter [and 30 others], 1742. Nouvelle edition, revüe, corrigée, & augmentée d'environ trois mille deux cens nouveaux mots, ou nouvelles phrases; thick 4to, 2 vols. in 1, second volume with separate title page in English; engraved folding portrait frontispiece, title pages printed in red and black, text in triple columns; full contemporary calf, gilt-tooled spine in 6 compartments; boards a bit scuffed, edges, especially along joints, rubbed and worn, spine leather cracked, small loss at spine head; textblock fine. Bookplate on front pastedown of 18th-century timber merchant John Cator, a landscapist much admired by Samuel Johnson. Vancil, p. 30; Zaunmüller, p. 150.
(Inventory #: 42818)