The compleat french-master, for ladies and gentlemen...
London.
Printed for Richard Sare, 1721.
Eighth edition.
8vo.
412 [i.e. 416]pp. Contemporary panelled calf. Rubbed and marked, some surface loss to lower board. without pastedowns/free-endpapers, head of text-block shaved with occasional loss to running-titles, loss/tearing to leaves O7-8, R1-2, and Cc4 with loss of text and sense.
The eighth edition of a handbook on French by Abel Boyer (1667?-1729), French-English lexicographer, journalist and miscellaneous writer. Boyer, French teacher to the young Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, would dedicate the volume to his royal pupil. Boyer would later publish The Royal Dictionary (1699), which would form the basis for a great number of subsequent French-English dictionaries, and would reach its 41st edition by 1860.
ESTC T117631.
£ 200.00
Antiquates Ref: 33036