first edition
1763 · London
by Giral Delpino, Joseph
London: A. Millar, J. Nourse, and P. Vaillant, 1763. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, as issued; folio, pp. iv, [4], plus unpaginated lexicon in triple column; [6] plus unpaginated lexicon; full contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; front joint cracked, else a very good, sound copy. Essentially a new edition of Peter Pineda's dictionary, but including "several thousand words more than any other dictionary," largely taken from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, and the Diccionario de Autoridades. See Steiner, Roger J., Two Centuries of Spanish and English Bilingual Lexicography, 1970, chapter 9. Vancil, p. 98; Zaunmuller, col. 369.
(Inventory #: 42966)