A compleat collection of English proverbs; also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish and other languages. The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explications. By the late Rev. and learned J. Ray, M. A. and Fellow of the Royal Society. To which is added (written by the same author) a collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the oue [sic] of such as are proper to the northern, the other to the southern counties. With an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England.
- Ray, John, 1627-1705.
- Date:
- MDCCXXXVII. [1737]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed by J. Hughs, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields; for Olive Payne, at Horace's Head in New-Round-Court, opposite York-Buildings, in the Strand, MDCCXXXVII. [1737]
Physical description
viii,319,[1],150,[2]p. ; 80.
Contributors
Edition
The third edition, augmented with many hundreds of words, observations, letters, &c.
References note
ESTC T88587
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.