De quatuor linguis commentationis, pars prior; quae, de lingua hebraica: et, de lingua saxonica.
London: F. Flesher, 1650. First and only edition, 12mo, pp. [8], 418, [2], 72, [12]; title printed in red and black, recent full calf antique, gilt lettering dirct on spine; a nice copy. The title of the book is penned on the fore-edge of the book, but it is faded. Most of the book deals with the Anglo-Saxon, with a small section on the Hebrew; the parts on Greek and Latin were never published. The final 72pp. consist of William Somner's extensive list of Old German words with Anglo-Saxon equivalents, which he was to develop, with Casaubon's encouragement, into the first Anglo-Saxon dictionary, published in 1659. In this copy there are two notes on the rear flyleaf, one by Philip Morant (1700-1770), the historian of Essex, and the other by his son-in-law Thomas Astle (1735-1803), the antiquary and palaeographer, the latter mentioning Elstob's English-Saxon Homily. Item #42823
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