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Florio, John
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues... whereunto are added certaine necessarie rules and short observations for the Italian tongue. London: Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611
- paper, ink, leather
Folio (291 x 200 mm). Woodcut title and engraved author's portrait; one original endpaper defective, one leaf very skillfully remargined, but a very handsome copy. Contemporary limp vellum.
Provenance
Henry Shirley (signature to title) — Robert George Windsor, Earl of Plymouth (bookplate)
Literature
STC 11099
Catalogue Note
An expanded version of Florio's A worlde of wordes (London, 1598; STC 11098), an important Elizabethan dictionary.