Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniae atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum … Accedunt D. Edvardi Luidii
Londini: W. Bowyer, 1719. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], xiv, [4], 277, [27]; engraved frontis portrait, typographical embellishments throughout, profusion of fonts, including black letter, Greek, Hebrew, Saxon and Roman; Lhwyd's appendix on the signification of British place names; and an 8-p. list of subscribers, including Sir Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, John Evelyn, William Wootton and Sir Hans Sloane; full contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; joints starting, extremities rubbed, old pencil annotations in Welsh on flyleaf; good and sound, unrestored. "In 1719 [Baxter] published his dictionary of British antiquities … an erudite work [to which is] prefixed a fine portrait of the author by Virtue after Highmore" (DNB). Kennedy 1547, noting also edition of 1731 and 1733. Scarce. Lowndes notes that only 350 copies were printed. Item #30822
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