The English dictionary: or, An interpreter of hard English words. : Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young scholars, clerks, merchants; also strangers of any nation, to the understanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing.

Author/creator Cockeram, Henry
Format Electronic
EditionThe ninth ed., rev. and enlarged. By H.C. gent.
Publication InfoLondon, Printed by A. Miller, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, at the Green-Dragon in St Pauls Church-yard, 1650.
Description[335] p.
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Portion of title Interpreter of hard English words
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteDedication signed: Henry Cockeram.
General noteFirst edition published in 1623. Part 2 may be called a dictionary for translating plain English into fine English (cf. Dict. nat. biog.) The third part, "treating of gods and goddesses, men and women, boyes and maids, giants and devils, birds and beasts, ..."
General noteImperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text.
General noteReproduction of the original in the British Library.
References Wing (2nd ed.) C4866
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2719:6)
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