Shelfmark
Ic4.2.29
Author
Title
The peculiar use and signification of certain words in the Latin tongue: or, a collection of observations, wherein The elegant, and commonly unobserv'd Sense of very near Nine Hundred common Latin Words (besides the various Senses of the same Word) is fully and distinctly explain'd in Proper English: The Whole translated from the purest Latin Writers, with many Classical Authorities; intended either to be read, or translated back into the original Language. By William Willymott, M. A. Fellow of King's College in Cambridge.
Edition
The sixth edition revised.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Eton : printed for J. and T. Pote. Also in London; for S. Crowder, and B. Law., MDCCLXVII. [1767]
Physical description
[2], 374 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Citation/references note
ESTC, T94642
Provenance
Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "?Jowell 1779".
Binding
18th century brown sheep binding; blind tooled perimeter frame and ornament roll parallel to the spine; five raised bands; two cord sewing supports; red sprinkled edges; endbands.
Copy-specific note
Price ms. inscription in pencil on front free endpaper: "£5".
Subject
Latin language Errors of usage Early works to 1800.
Subject
Latin language Idioms, corrections, errors Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Pote, Joseph, 1704 - 1787 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Pote, Thomas, 1733 - 1794 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Crowder, Stanley, ? - -1798 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Law, B. (Bedwell), ? - d.1798 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England Eton.
Identifier
B38819