[Rarebooks] FS: Cooper's "Elizabethan" dictionary. London: 1584

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(DICTIONARIES) Cooper, Thomas. THESAURUS LINGUAE ROMANAE & BRITANNICAE... 
Accessit Dictionarium Historicum & Poeticum... London: (Henry Bynneman). 
1584. Thick folio. Unpaginated double column text. 2 parts in 1. Early paneled 
calf, rebacked with spine gilt & blind tooled. Title page with some old 
soiling, and the fore-edge & top edge of the title lightly chipped. The final 
blank leaf is lacking.     $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The very popular "Cooper's Dictionary" is Thomas Cooper's (Bishop of 
Lincoln and Winchester) greatest work. First printed in 1565, and reprinted in 
1573, 1578 and 1584, it is an authoritative Latin to English dictionary, with a 
valuable second part, an historical, geographical and literary dictionary. 
It is an indispensable reference work for the study of Elizabethan England. 
STC 5689.

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