Webster's collegiate dictionary : the largest abridgment of Webster's new international dictionary of the English language : 1700 illustrations.
Category
Books
Date
1920
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257755
Summary
Bibliographic description
Third edition to the Merriam series. Thin paper edition de luxe. xxxii, 1222, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 23 cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full pink morocco; gilt fillets and rolls to form a panel design on boards; five false bands; gilt tooled spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Webster's collegiate dictionary'; gilt edge rolled; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; thumb cut index marked with red ink and black morocco labels (gilt lettered) for each letter of the alphabet; mustard yellow cloth endleaves.