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ISBN-13: 9781584775959; ISBN-10: 1584775955. Uncommon English Dictionary with Many Legal Terms Coles, Elisha [1640?-1680]. An English Dictionary: Explaining the Difficult Terms That are Used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Phylosophy, Law, Navigation, Mathematicks, and Other Arts and Sciences. Containing Many Thousands of Hard Words (and Proper Names of Places) More Than are in Any Other English Dictionary or Expositor. Together with the Etymological Derivation of Them from Their Proper Fountains, Whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or Any Other Language. In a Method More Comprehensive, Than Any That is Extant. Originally published: London: Printed for Samuel Crouch, 1676. Unpaginated (330 pp.). Main text printed in triple columns. Reprinted 2006, 2019 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584775959. ISBN-10: 1584775955. Hardcover. New. $37.95 * Reprint of the first edition. Containing around 25,000 definitions, many of them dealing with legal topics, this was the largest English dictionary of the late-seventeenth century. An innovative work, it was the first to recognize the importance of slang. In addition, it offers lists of dialect words and obsolete terms and the names of market towns and European cities. It also discusses the proper names and histories of classical figures.

Hardback, 7.25 x 4.5 inches. Quarter bound with dark blue calf leather to spine and marbled paper to boards. Gilt lettering to black leather spine labels. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Professionaly rebound. Strong cloth reinforced inner hinges. Some fading to spine, some rubbing to boards and edges. Title page darkened and chipped around edges, page reinforcement on verso, and also to edge of first preface page. Repair also to page DA-DE. Some small tears to page edges. Some darkening and handling marks. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Very scarce early printing. Unpaginated.

Tenth edition, sm. 8vo, unpaginated; some foxing, contemporary full calf, manuscript paper label on spine; spine a little flakey, otherwise a good, sound copy. Coles (?1640-1680) was the author of a number of "useful and necessary books for the instruction of beginners," among which were his popular A Dictionary English-Latin and Latin-English (London, 1677) which was still in use in schools even after the arrival of Ainsworth's Thesaurus in 1736; and An English Dictionary (London, 1676, et al.). "Still in the "hard words" tradition, Coles included thousands of "old words," obsolete from Chaucer's day. His dictionary contained twenty-five thousand words, eight thousand more than the last, augmented edition of Phillips. He shortened Phillips' already brief definitions in order to include more words and more etymological information. Coles did break new ground in including cant (thieves' argot) and dialectical terms. These, taken from other specialized dictionaries, had never before been included in a general English dictionary" (Landau, Dictionaries, p.43). Alston V, 72.

Fifth edition, 8vo, 8 preliminary pp. plus unpaginated text in triple column; a nice enough copy in its original binding of full contemporary calf, blind-tooled borders. The first edition appeared in 1676 and nearly a dozen editions kept this book in print well into the 18th century. Wing C5075; Alston V, 68; Vancil, p. 55.

Small 8vo, pp. [336]; A-2T?; lexicon in triple column, full contemporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked; text lightly toned, else generally a very good and sound copy. Coles (?1640-1680) was the author of a number of "useful and necessary books for the instruction of beginners," among which were his popular A Dictionary English-Latin and Latin-English (London 1677) which was still in use in schools even after the arrival of Ainsworth's Thesaurus in 1736; and An English Dictionary (London, 1676). "Still in the "hard words" tradition, Coles included thousands of "old words," obsolete ones from Chaucer's day. His dictionary contained twenty-five thousand words, eight thousand more than the last, augmented edition of Phillips. He shortened Phillips' already brief definitions in order to include more words and more etymological information. Coles did break new ground in including cant (thieves' argot) and dialectical terms. These, taken from other specialized dictionaries, had never before been included in a general English dictionary" (Landau, Dictionaries, p. 43). Alston V, 70; Kennedy 6202.

Tenth edition, small 8vo, pp. [336]; some foxing, later half calf over marbled boards, red morocco label on spine; nice copy. Coles (?1640-1680) was the author of a number of "useful and necessary books for the instruction of beginners," among which were his popular A Dictionary English-Latin and Latin-English (London, 1677) which was still in use in schools even after the arrival of Ainsworth's Thesaurus in 1736; and An English Dictionary (London, 1676, et al.). "Still in the "hard words" tradition, Coles included thousands of "old words," obsolete from Chaucer's day. His dictionary contained twenty-five thousand words, eight thousand more than the last, augmented edition of Phillips. He shortened Phillips' already brief definitions in order to include more words and more etymological information. Coles did break new ground in including cant (thieves' argot) and dialectical terms. These, taken from other specialized dictionaries, had never before been included in a general English dictionary" (Landau, Dictionaries, p.43). Alston V, 72.

Fifth edition, 8vo, pp. [308]; collating A-2P? 2Q ; lexicon in triple column; contemporary blind-ruled speckled calf neatly rebacked to match; some general rubbing and wear, but in all a good, sound copy. Early ownership signature of Geo. Raynard on front pastedown, and with his doodling and notes on rear endpapers dated 1711. Also with the early signatures of John Darrey and William Darrey of Hadstock. The first edition appeared in 1676 and nearly a dozen editions kept this book in print well into the 18th century. Alston V, 67; Vancil, p. 55; Wing C5075.

Small 8vo, pp. [10], [338]; lexicon in triple column, full contemporary paneled calf with a scalloped border and a double-ruled border all around, red morocco label on spine; joints a little cracked, text block relatively clean. This copy without the preliminary advertisement leaf, but in our experience this is not in all copies. This is the penultimate edition of Coles, first published in 1676. Coles (?1640-1680) was the author of a number of "useful and necessary books for the instruction of beginners," among which were his popular English-Latin dictionary (London, 1677) which was still in use in schools even after the arrival of Ainsworth's Thesaurus in 1736. "Still in the "hard words" tradition, Coles included thousands of "old words," obsolete ones from Chaucer's day. His dictionary contained twenty-five thousand words, eight thousand more than the last, augmented edition of Phillips. He shortened Phillips' already brief definitions in order to include more words and more etymological information. Coles did break new ground in including cant (thieves' argot) and dialectical terms. These, taken from other specialized dictionaries, had never before been included in a general English dictionary" (Landau, Dictionaries, p. 43). Alston V, 73.

[340]pp, comprising titlepage, additional titlepage for the 1717 edition, preliminary ad. leaf, 4pp 'To the Reader', double-column main text, and table. 8vo. Signed in fours. Sl. browning, tear to 1717 titlepage repaired with archival tape, sl. water marking to lower corners at the end of the volume. Contemp. full sheep, blind tooled borders; rubbed. Numerous contemp. signatures of Ezekiell Howell; additional signature of William D. Halsey, 1923, on leading pastedown. Alston V 73; ESTC T114052; with the titlepage to Alston V 72 (ESTC T145361) bound in. In 1676, Elisha Coles, c.1640-1680, issued his English Dictionary with brief and generally adequate definitions of around 25,000 words, with some dialect identified by county of use. It was the last of the 'hard word' dictionaries, including translations of foreign words, primarily Greek and Latin. For these traditional entries he relied heavily on The New World of English Words published in 1658 by Edward Phillips, who in turn had plagiarized Thomas Blount's Glossographia of 1656. However, there was an important innovation in that it was the first general English dictionary to include slang expressions. Coles was ingenious; in his address 'To the Reader', he wrote: 'I am no friend to vain and tedious Repetitions; therefore you will often meet with words, explain'd in their Dependence and Relation to one another, and the Sense compleated by taking them together: As for example: Lupa, a She-wolf that nourished Romulus in the / Lupercal, a place near Rome, where they celebrated the / Lupercalia, feasts in honour of Pan, performed by the Luperci, / Priests of Pan'.