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Also part-encyclopedias and part-gazetteers, Barclay's dictionaries, which were published in several editions by different publishers between 1782 and about 1850, also had (certainly in this copy) sections on linguistics, ancient and modern history, and Latin and French quotations and phrases. Publication of this edition will have been between late-1841 - the date of the Canterbury Cathedral engraving (opposite p 134) - and early-1842 (June 1842 was the month Robert Lucas signed his name at the front of the book). Henry Dewhurst, the reviser, was also the author of a book on whales and one on the oceanic inhabitants of the arctic regions. Our copy of Dewhurst's revision of Barclay's Dictionary is in remarkably good condition and is a pleasure to consult and read. The binding is sound, the pages open flat and the paper is thick enough to handle easily. The volume is half-bound in heavy tan calf and matching paper boards. The boards are extensively rubbed. The spine has been reinforced with four tan calf bands and there is other reinforcement between the spine and the covers and at the endpapers, which are thick turquoise marbled paper and which remain in very good condition. The first three leaves of the xxxiii + 960 pp of text are lightly foxed, the title-page, which is an inserted engraving on thicker paper, and the last three leaves are extensively foxed and stained, as are all the 20 inserted engraved plates (mainly maps of English counties). The remaining text pages are unfoxed, bright and unmarked. All three page edges were originally gilt, but only the top edge remains bright, with the other edges now dull brown. An unusual practice is that the entries beginning with a "U" or a "V" are grouped together. Publisher: Not stated Binding Condition: Very Good Overall Condition: Very Good. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Barclay, James ; revised by Henry W Dewhurst : Complete and Universal English Dictionary : Enlarged and Improved. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, livres rares, incunabula, first editions and out-of-print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |