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FLORIO, JOHN. Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues. Title within woodcut architectural border. [14] (of [16]), 617, [3], [2], 617-686, 685-690 pages, including engraved portrait of Florio by William Hole and blank 3F4; lacks initial and final blanks. Folio, 267x183 mm, 19th-century tree calf, rebacked; margins trimmed entering rule border at top of title, light marginal dampstaining through much of volume, small dark stain on Oo4-5. Signature of J. Edgar Park. London: Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611
Enlarged edition of Florio's 1598 A Worlde of Wordes, the most extensive Italian-English dictionary of its time. "Detached from the linguistic debate taking place in Italy at the time regarding the priority to be given to fourteenth-century Florentine, Florio indiscriminately included in his list words from all parts of Italy (including Italian slang), with the result that his dictionary provided his English contemporaries with a valuable resource for understanding the many Italian plays, poems, treatises, encyclopaedic collections, and scientific and historical works that were then reaching England" (ODNB). STC 11099.
