London: Thomas Roycroft, 1669. First edition, 2 parts in 1; folio, title page in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Faithorne, text primarily in triple column and printed in Roman, Italic, Hebrew and a variety of other exotic fonts, pp. [8] & 4008 columns (this copy's pagination identical..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, frontispieces, over 2,000 illustrations in the text; extremities a bit worn, edges bumped, else a good set or better in maroon cloth with paper labels on spine. An extensive dictionary of works and biography of painters as well as..... More

Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1968. Facsimile reprint, 8vo, pp. xvi, 166; original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, green endpapers; gutters of endpapers foxed, else fine. Facsimile of the London: Trübner & Co., 1868 edition. More

Milano: Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1814. First edition, 2 volumes in one, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 336; 351; text in double column; later 19th-century three quarter mottled calf over green cloth, dark green gilt morocco spine label; upper cover nearly loose, general wear to extremities; textblock good and sound. Engraved bookplate of..... More

Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1974. 8vo, pp. 104; Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica Volume IV; fine in original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Reprinted from De Gulden Passer 1971. 355 items listed--chiefly polyglots--with collations, locations and notes. More

New York: Louis Weiss & Co., n.d., [1902]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [4], 581; fine copy in recent half black morocco, red morocco label on spine. "The preface is short and of no great interest; the glossary contains some 5,260 entries, which are clear and efficient, though with very..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1874. First edition, 4to, pp. cviii, 779, [1]; original blue cloth (a bit discolored from damp), gilt-lettered spine, yellow glazed endpapers; minor shelf wear; mounted newsclipping obituary of Vigfusson and later (1956) ownership inscription to front free endpaper, additional contemporary ownership inscription to half title page; very..... More

London: L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1768. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 231, [1]; 19th century full green cloth, maroon morocco label on spine; a nice copy with occasional pencil underlinings and marginalia in pencil, presumably in the hand of W. W. Chynowerth Pope whose ownership signature is on the..... More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1979. First edition, 8vo, xi-[xii], 372 pp. incl. index. Frontispiece and 15 illustrations, many full-p.; fine copy in the jacket, but with some ink underlining in first two chapters and rear endpapers. More

New York: Collins & Hannay, 1831. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 56; removed and trimmed. Cobb's famous attack on Webster's quarto dictionary of 1828, and the first of the many anti-Webster pamphlets which proliferated into the middle of the century, in which he, Cobb, takes Webster to task for his..... More

Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Zell, 1870-71. First edition, 2 volumes, thick 4to, pp. iv, 1196; [2], 1152; text in triple column, numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout; publisher's full terracotta pebble-grain morocco, elaborate gilt-decorated covers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, a.e.g.; spines a little faded, else very good and..... More

London: Trubner & Co., 1859. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. viii, 102, [2]; bound with: Proposals for the Publication of a New English Dictionary" [drop title], pp. 31, [1]; bound with: A Catalogue of Books on Philology, American Antiquities, Indians, and Languages published during the last forty years in the..... More

London: Peter Parker, 1692. Fifth edition, 8vo, 4 p.l. plus unpaginated text in triple column; 20th century quarter brown calf over marbled boards, red morocco label on spine; a very good, sound copy. The first edition appeared in 1676 and nearly a dozen editions kept this book in print well..... More