Defoe b enjamin n orton (1 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. First edition, Alston's first issue; 12mo, pp. iv, [384]; lexicon in double column; collating [A] B-2K?; contemporary continental mottled calf, gilt spine with thistle motif (small chip at the foot), morocco label lettered in French, contemporary inscription at the top of the title page. "This little dictionary had a complicated and curious printing history. It was re-issued five times, in each case with a different title, and twice with a different author's name on the title-page," (Alston). "Little is known about the supposed authors of this work in its various forms. B. N. Defoe, whose name appears on the original title page, may indeed have compiled the work; his function in this case would have been purely editorial, as . the dictionary contains no new material. Defoe was probably little more than a hack writer and is remembered only as one of the editors of The Thursday's Journal . which ran from 1719 to 1738. His name may thus have had some small drawing power at the time when the dictionary first appeared," (Starnes & Noyes, p. 141-142). Alston V, 138 (locating 2 copies at the BL, and one at Oxford); ESTC adds 2 others at Oxford, Amsterdam Universiteitsbibliothek, Brigham Young, UCLA, and "private collections.".…