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PHILLIPS, EDWARD. The New World of Words; or, Universal English Dictionary . . . Sixth Edition. Engraved additional title dated 1696. Folio, 328x201 mm, contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; frontispiece toned, scattered foxing and intermittent heavy browning of text, dampstaining in blank upper margins toward beginning. Armorial bookplate of Keane Fitzgerald, Queen's College, Oxford. London: J. Phillips et al., 1706
Dictionary first published in 1658, originally plagiarized from Thomas Blount's 1656 Glossographia, and in later editions from Stephen Skinner's 1671 Etymologicon Linguae Anglicae.
