Benjamin Collins

ID 2154
Name Benjamin Collins
Gender Male
Street Address St. Paul's Churchyard
City London
Start Date 1743
End Date 1785
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Publisher A dictionary, English-Latin, and Latin-English; containing all things necessary for the translating of either language into the other. To which end many things that were erroneous, are rectified, many superfluities retrenched, and very many defects supplied. And all suited to the meanest capacities, in a plainer method than heretofore; being for ease reduced into an alphabetical order, and explained in the mother tongue. And towards the compleating the English part (which hath been long desired) here are added thousands of words, phrases, proverbs, proper names, and many other useful things mentioned in the preface to the work. The seventeenth edition, with large additions. By Elisha Coles, late of Magdalen-College, Oxon. Coles , Elisha (Author)
Hawes , Lacy (Publisher)
Ware , Catherine (Publisher)
and 4 more. 		1764
Bookseller The description of Bath. A poem. Humbly inscribed to Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia. With several other poems. By Mrs. Mary Chandler. The eighth edition. To which is added, A true tale, by the same author. Chandler , Mary (Author)
1767
Publisher An universal etymological English dictionary; Comprehending The Derivations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, either Ancient or Modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Modern French, Teutonick, Dutch, Spanish, Italian; as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper Characters. And also A brief and clear Explication of all difficult Words, derived from any of the aforesaid Languages, and Terms of Art, relating to Anatomy, Botany, Physick, Pharmacy, Surgery, Chymistry, Philosophy, Divinity, Mathematicks, Grammar, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Heraldry, Maritime Affairs, Military Discipline, Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, Gardening, Husbandry, Handicrafts, Confectionary, Carving, Cookery, &c. Together with A large Collection and Explication of Words and Phrases used in our Ancient Statutes, Charters, Writs, Old Records, and Processes in Law; and the Etymology, and Interpretation of the Proper Names of Men, Women, and remarkable Places in Great Britain: Also the Dialects of our different Countries. Containing many Thousand Words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English Dictionary before extant. To which is added, A Collection of our most common Proverbs, with their Explication and Illustration. The whole Work compiled and methodically digested, as well for the Entertainment of the Curious, as the Information of the Ignorant; and for the Benefit of young Students, Artificers, Tradesmen, and Foreigners, who are desirous thoroughy to understand what they Speak, Read, or Write. By N. Bailey, philologos. The four-and-twentieth edition, carefully enlarged and corrected by Edward Hardwood, D. D. Bailey , Nathan (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1782
Publisher Fables of Aesop and Others: Translated into English. With instructive applications; and a print before each fable. By Samuel Croxall, D.D. Late Archdeacon of Hereford. The twelfth edition, carefully revised, and improved. Croxall , Samuel (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1782
Publisher The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By Sir John Hawkins, Knt. Hawkins , John (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1787
Publisher The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes. Hawkins , John (Author)
Johnson , Samuel (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1787
Publisher A museum for young gentlemen and ladies; or a private tutor for little masters and misses. Containing a variety of useful subjects; ... Unknown , (Author)
Newbery , Elizabeth (Publisher)
1800

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