A vocabulary of such words in the English language as are of dubious or unsettled accentuation; in which the pronunciation of Sheridan, Walker, and other orthoepists, is compared

London: printed for F. and C. Rivington, G. and T. Wilkie, L.B. Seeley, and Goadby, Lerpiniere, and Langdon, 1797. First and apparently only edition, 8vo, pp. [2], iii, [1], [184]; lexicon in double column; contemporary calf boards recently rebacked, black gilt spine label; extremities rubbed. 19th century bookplates of William Howard, Hartley House, Devon; and Walter Stewart Howard on front pastedown and front free endpaper. An interesting compendium, giving perhaps 1500 words with definitions, and the pronunciations from various ortheopists. The author points out in his preface that since the publication of Johnson's Dictionary, considerable standardization of orthography has been achieved, and remarks that "it would be highly to the honour of the printers to insist on their compositors implicitly following the text of the great man ... unless particularly ordered to the contrary." But in pronunciation, "we unfortunately have no such standard to refer to. With our great Lexicographer, the sound of words seems to have been only a secondary consideration." That said, the majority of entries cite Johnson as an authority. Alston VI, 510, Vancil, p. 245. Item #64578

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