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ID	3128
Name	Thomas Beecroft
Gender	Unknown
Street Address	23 Paternoster Row
City	London
Start Date	1777
End Date	1781
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Firm Role	Title	Contributors	Date
Bookseller	The accidence; or first rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies. With an appendix, Containing Examples of Grammatical Construction; of the Method of supplying the Elliptical Words; and of analyzing Sentences. Also Maxims and Reflections, by way of Exercises for Learners; and some occasional Remarrs and References. By Ellin Devis. The third edition with very considerable additions.	Devis , Ellin (Author)	1777
Bookseller	The infant's miscellany: or easy lessons, extracted from different authors. On a new plan. Intended to facilitate the attainment of the English language to the youngest readers, by teaching them not only to read, but likewise to understand clearly what they read.	Devis , Ellin (Author)	1778
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

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