A collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original, in two alphabetical catalogues, the one of such as are proper to the northern, the other to the southern counties. With an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England / By John Ray: Fellow of the Royal Society.

  • Ray, John, 1627-1705.
Date:
1691
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for Christopher Wilkinson, at the Black Boy over against S. Dunstan's church in Fleetstreet, 1691.

Physical description

11 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves (first blank), 211 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves ; (12mo)

Edition

2nd ed. /

Notes

Includes "A catalogue of local words parallel'd with British or Welsh, by Edward Lloyd of Oxford" (p. 122-130); "A catalogue of North Country words received from Mr. Tomlinson of Edmund Hall" (p. 131-138); "Glossarium northanhymbricum" (p. 139-152); "An account of some errors and defects in our English alphabet, orthography, and manner of spelling" (p. 153-168)
Copy 1 Note: Lacks first (blank?) leaf

References note

Wing R389
Keynes 24
ESTC R14631
Keynes, G. John Ray, 24
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), R389

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