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THE ROYAL DICTIONARY French-English & English-French by Abel Boyer 1796 New Ed. THE ROYAL DICTIONARY French-English & English-French by Abel Boyer 1796 New Ed. POB#45402 TITLE: Le dictionnaire royal, françois-anglois, et anglois-françois : tiré des meilleurs auteurs, qui ont écrit dans ces deux langues The Royal Dictionary, French and English and English and French [2 vol.] AUTHOR: Abel Boyer; P M Fierville PUBLISHER: London: De l'imprimerie de Thomas Davison : Et se trouve chez T. Longman, B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G. & J. Robinson, W. Richardson ... [and 26 others], DATE: M. DCC. XCVI. [1796] EDITION: Nouvelle édition DESCRIPTION: 2 volumes. Unpaginated quartos [Vol.1 308 leaves, Vol.2 332 leaves], 29cm . Volume 1) French to English; Volume 2) English to French. . Both volumes include the same preliminary articles and charts - 1) French language preliminaries in volume 1 and 2) English language preliminaries in volume 2. . One preliminary chart: "Liste alphabétique des noms de Baptême les plus ordinaires d'homme & de femme, en françois & en anglois" is an list of informal nicknames and their translations. Foldout charts of conjugations are tipped into both volumes. . COLLATION: Gathered in 4's with first two signed, except for end pages in Volume 1 (in 2s). Vol 1 pi2-a-d4,A-3Y4, 3Z2 [308 leaves] Vol 2 pi-A-4K4 [332 leaves], . Engraved portrait of author opposite t.p. Abel Boyer (1667?-1729) was a French-English lexicographer, journalist, theater producer and historian. His French-English Royal Dictionary met with obvious success with dozens, if not hundreds, of editions appearing in the BnF catalog. This edition was published nearly 100 years after the first one. CONDITION NOTES: ACCEPTABLE Complete, but front covers detached and back joints weak. BINDING: Full period calf. . Engraved portrait of author opposite title page, Volume 1. Abel Boyer (1667?-1729) was a French-English lexicographer, journalist, theater producer and historian. His French-English Royal Dictionary met with obvious success with dozens, if not hundreds, of editions appearing in the BnF catalog. The present edition, edited by P. M. Fierville was published nearly 100 years after the first edition of Boyer's Dictionary. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog
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