[Rarebooks] FS: First edition of a standard Elizabethan reference book. London: 1584

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(DICTIONARIES) Cooper, Thomas. THESAURUS LINGUAE ROMANAE & BRITANNICAE, Tam 
Accurate Congestus Ut Nihil Pene in Eo Desyderai Possit... Accessit 
Dictionarium Historicum & Poeticum... Omnium Cognitione Dignissimas Historias. [London: 
Impressum Londini... Henrici Bynnemani Typographi. 1584]. Thick folio. 
Unpaginated. Double column text. Title-page mounted, with loss at bottom of most of 
the imprint (place, publisher & date from the colophon). Woodcut printer’s 
device on title-page. Old boards, worn, crudely rebacked with a later brown calf 
spine strip and tips. A1 blank lacking.     $1,500.00
This work became a standard Elizabethan reference, most likely used by 
Shakespeare and his contemporaries. STC 5689, with the genuine title-page reading “
Romanae & Britannicae.”

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