Verborum Latinorum Cum Graecis Anglicisque Coniunctorum, locupletissimi Commentarii [...]. Londini: Henrici Bynnemani, 1583, small folio.
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A rather interesting trilingual humanist dictionary where Latin words are explained through their Greek equivalents and translated into English, based on the work of Guillaume Morel but adapted for English students and printed in Elizabethan London. The structure of this work reflects the pedagogical structure of Elizabethan schools, where educated students were expected to be able to move between Latin and Greek fluidly with English as a support language. It was edited by Abraham Fleming, though modern scholarship tends towards the view that the publisher, Richard Hutton, had an active textual role. It was underappreciated works such as this which laid the educational foundation for much of the great English literature, philosophy, and theology of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and the present example is a rather handsome one.
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Size: 207 x 293 mm (approx.)
Condition:
Contemporary full calf, boards ruled in blind at outer edges. Binding rubbed with some wear to extremities, but generally very well presented. Both boards attached, binding secure. Title with the large attractive printer's device, fine headpiece with the Tetragrammaton, and a very large woodcut coat of arms on the verso. Attractive woodcut initials throughout. Title leaf with paper reinforced at edges, torn, old purchase inscription dated Sept 16th 1840 at upper right edge of title leaf ("Bought at Holt") with a further older (near contemporary?) inscription of S. Tarburgh next to the printer's device. Generally clean throughout the text block, mildly toned, a few occasional marks/spots, dampstaining to the upper marginal space intermittently throughout, extending into the top of the text block for a few gatherings, not obscuring legibility, otherwise marginal and light. C3 with some loss to outer blank marginal space, not touching text. Without any preliminary blanks, but with a contemporary blank at the rear.
