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A pocket dictionary, or, Complete English expositor : shewing readily the part of speech to which each word belongs ... : also the technical terms are clearly explained ... and the names of cities and principal towns ... : to render this book complete, many modern words are introduced ... : a work entirely new, and designed for the youth of both sexes, the ladies and persons in business : to which is prefix'd an introduction containing an history of the English language, with a compendious grammar : and a recommendation of the manuscript copy, in a letter from Dr. Bevis to the publisher
A pocket dictionary, or, Complete English expositor : shewing readily the part of speech to which each word belongs ... : also the technical terms are clearly explained ... and the names of cities and principal towns ... : to render this book complete, many modern words are introduced ... : a work entirely new, and designed for the youth of both sexes, the ladies and persons in business : to which is prefix'd an introduction containing an history of the English language, with a compendious grammar : and a recommendation of the manuscript copy, in a letter from Dr. Bevis to the publisher
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A pocket dictionary, or, Complete English expositor : shewing readily the part of speech to which each word belongs ... : also the technical terms are clearly explained ... and the names of cities and principal towns ... : to render this book complete, many modern words are introduced ... : a work entirely new, and designed for the youth of both sexes, the ladies and persons in business : to which is prefix'd an introduction containing an history of the English language, with a compendious grammar : and a recommendation of the manuscript copy, in a letter from Dr. Bevis to the publisher

Date1765
Names
Alternate Title
  • Complete English expositor
  • Pocket dictionary
FormatBook
Notes
"Some account of this work in a letter from Dr. Bevis to the bookseller" dated Sept. 5, 1752.

 
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CollectionOsborne Collection of Early Children's Books
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Object Number37131009551946D
Catalogue Record for Print Book https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C2271827
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