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DICTIONARIES: : The Royal Pocket Dictionary, French and English and English and French ... by J.F. Tocquot ... 1808; A Compendious Geographical Dictionary, containing a description of every remarkable place in Europe, Asia, Africa and America ... the fourth edition ... by B.P. Capper ... 1813; A New Biographical Dictionary ... by Stephen Jones ... 1822; A Dictionary of the English Language compiled from Dr Johnson ... 1825;

4 vols. 16mo. Issued by a variety of publishers with Peacock and Bampton as the common thread; sold as a set at some point c. 1825, uniformly bound in red straight-grained morocco, gilt ruled, a.e.g., with original wooden book-box, covered to match. Hinge of box and hinge of French dictionary renewed. Capper’s Geographical Dictionary contains nine hand-coloured maps engraved by J. Russell. Condition of the dictionaries is excellent, although the box is a somewhat worn and sunned. Books and box are all inscribed ‘Rawdon’, which tallies with a typed slip explaining that a relative was servant to the Marquess of Hastings ‘who must have given him the books’. The 2nd Marquess (1808-1844) was known as Lord Rawdon until he inherited his father’s titles in 1826, and this is an entirely suitable set of reference books for a young scholar.

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