Glossarium archaiologicum: continens Latino-Barbara, peregrina, obsoleta, & novatae significationis vocabula ... Editio tertia auctior & correctior.
London: Tho. Braddyll [et al.], 1687. Folio, pp. [22], 576; engraved portrait of the author, title printed in red and black, text in double column, full contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1; extremities rubbed, but generally a very good copy of the best edition, which includes a life of the author. The work evolved from Spelman's earlier studies on the basis of English law, but "at the outset of his researches he experienced so much difficulty in assigning the proper meanings to Anglo-Saxon and Latin terms, that he determined to postpone his legal researches" (DNB) in favor of the philological question. The work subsequently proved useful to students of Shakespeare and the Elizabethans. Portions of the work were first published in 1626, and the full text, posthumously, in 1664. Wing S4926. Item #42961
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