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FLORIO (JOHN) 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, Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611
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FLORIO (JOHN)
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, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces, lacking portrait, without first and last blanks and blank 3F4, G1 torn and repaired with a little obscured text supplied in manuscript, 3L4 torn and repaired with some loss, chip to upper corner of title, a few other marginal paper repairs, modern half morocco [ESTC S121353], folio (280 x 178mm.), Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611
Footnotes
An enlarged version of Florio's Worlde of Wordes, 1598.
Provenance: University of London Library, library stamp on title, a few other leaves and at foot of spine, with letter from the library dated 1959 stating that this volume was sold as a duplicate; I.A. Shapiro (1904-2004), Donne scholar, acquired from Parker and Son of Oxford in 1959; Sotheby's, 16 December 2004, lot 91.





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