The peculiar use and signification of certain words in the Latin tongue: or, A collection of observations, wherein the elegant, and commonly unobserv'd sense of very near nine hundred common Latin words (besides the various senses of the same word) is fully and distinctly explain'd in proper Englishes, Translated from the truest copies of the purest Latin writers; and intended either to be read, or translated back again into the original language. By William Willymott, M. A. Fellow of King's College in Cambridge.
William Willymott (d.1737)
Category
Books
Date
1705
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3008746
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition; with notes. [4],374,[32]p. ; 8vo. Imperfect: wants both advertisement leavesOld Felbrigg shelfmarks: [in pencil at front] A16 L2 Y2; [in pencil at rear] L2. Some initial pencil marking and annotation. Loose inserts: (pp.13,127,209) contemporary scrap paper markers; (p.239) scrap paper marker with manuscript calculations; (p.271): torn printed slip with rent received entry inscribed for "Alexander Takenor", with manuscript notes on reverse. Dating in red pencil on rear endpaper 1730 1731. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Binding: eighteenth-century spinkled, blind panelled calf; on five raised cords. Small lozenge shaped paper label affixed to spine, numbered: 15.
Makers and roles
William Willymott (d.1737)