Item #19494 Gradus ad Parnassum; sive novus synonymorum, epithetorum, versuum ac phrasium poeticarum, thesaurus … Ab uno e Societate Jesu. Cum novissima editione, sexcentis testimoniis a Thoma Morell auctÇ, conferta & recensita. PAUL ALER.
Gradus ad Parnassum; sive novus synonymorum, epithetorum, versuum ac phrasium poeticarum, thesaurus … Ab uno e Societate Jesu. Cum novissima editione, sexcentis testimoniis a Thoma Morell auctÇ, conferta & recensita.

Gradus ad Parnassum; sive novus synonymorum, epithetorum, versuum ac phrasium poeticarum, thesaurus … Ab uno e Societate Jesu. Cum novissima editione, sexcentis testimoniis a Thoma Morell auctÇ, conferta & recensita.

Londini: pro Societate Stationariorum impressum, 1802. 8vo, pp. [4], 667, [1]; recent quarter brown morocco; title-page guarded else a very good, clean copy. First published in the early 17th century (the first listed in OCLC is 1602 which is described as a second edition) Gradus ad Parnassum (A Step to Parnassus) is a dictionary of prosody much used in continental and English public schools during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and there was at least one edition in English in the 20th century. Item #19494

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