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2025-129, Dictionary
The Royal Dictionary, French and English, and English and French
2025-129, Dictionary

The Royal Dictionary, French and English, and English and French

Date1783
Author 1667 - 1729
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OriginEngland, London
Medium2 volumes in one bound contemporary full mottled calf binding, gilt border, spine ruled decoratively in gilt, red Morocoo label reading "Boyer's Dictionary"
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/4 × 10 15/16 × 8 3/4 in (8.25 × 27.78 × 22.22cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number2025-129
Description2 volumes, frontispiece portrait and folding plate, vol. 1 in French; Vol. II in English. 4to. Armorial bookplate and inscription of William Fox.
The volume one title page reads, "Le/ Dictionnaire/ Royal/ François-Anglois/ et/ Anglois-François;/ Tiré des Meilleurs Auteurs, qui ont écrit dans ces deux langues;/ Autresois Composé à l'Usage de feu S.A.R. le Duc de Glocester, Par Mr. A. Boyer./ Nouvelle Edition./ Rendue grammaticale par l'Addition du Régime à tous les Motsqui le comportent, et/ soigneusement revue, corrigée, & augmentée d'un très grand Nombre de Mots/ & de Phrases, des Termes Géographiques, de plusieurs Idiotsmes; de/ différentes Constructions & Façons de parler, tant Françoises/ qu' Angloises; de la Conjugaison des Verbes Irreguliers;/ et d'une Table et des Règles pour la Formation/ de tous les Tems des Verbes Reguliers./ Par J.C. Prieur./ Tome Premier."
The volume two title page reads, "The Royal/ Dictionary,/ French and English,/ And/ English and French;/ Extracted/ From the Writings of the Best Authors in Both Languages./ Formerly Composed/ For the Use of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester,/ By Mr. A. Boyer./ A New Edition,/ Carefully corrected, improved with the Signification of the Words, the preterites, and participles/ of the irregular Verbs; the Genders of Substantive Nouns; and enlarged/ with a very great Number of Words, Sentences, Proverbs/ and Idioms, both English and French./ By J.C. Prieur./ Tome Second."Label TextThis is an edition of Abel Boyer's French-English Dictionary. It is a 1783 edition with both volumes (1&2) bound together in contemporary binding. Volume 2 has the word "pilfer" with the same margin as a scrap found in a Wetherburn's Tavern rats' nest. This book is a complete object that represents fragments that were found in rats' nests during the 1960s restoration of Wetherburn's Tavern.Inscription(s)"W. Fox No. 467."ProvenanceBefore 2025, Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers (London, England); 2025-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA)