The London vocabulary : English and Latin: put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words : adorned with twenty-six pictures : for the use of schools / by James Greenwood.

Author
Greenwood, James, -1737 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • Latin
Εdition
The twentieth edition.
Published/​Created
London : Printed for J.F. & C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, R. Baldwin, S. Bladon, and G. & T. Wilkie, MDCCXCI [1791]
Description
viii, 123 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 16 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Bookseller
Rare books genre
Notes
  • Publisher's advertisements for T. Longman on p. ii and p. [124].
  • Illustrations: Woodcut t.p. vignette, half-page cuts of animals, plants, and objects depicting vocabulary items in the text, woodcit head' and tailpieces.
  • An abridgement of Comenius' "Orbis Pictus" (cf. Osborne).
  • Signatures: A⁴, B-F¹², G².
  • Cotsen copy: Pen trials on rear pastedown."
  • Cotsen copy: Inscibed (vertically) in pencil on rear free endpaper: "C.W. Stuart Black, S.M. (?) Taylor's School."
  • Cotsen copy: White Cotsen bookplate, laid in, inscribed "10/73" and "Lloyd."
  • Cotsen copy: Front free endpaper wanting.
Binding note
Contemporary (?) tan buckram.
Indexed in
cf. Osborne Collection of early children's books, vol. I, p. 123 (for the 1782 18th ed.)
References
ESTC, T13158
OCLC
8769842
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