Dictionary abridged. In two parts. I. French and English. II. English and French. Containing above five thousand words more than any French and English dictionary yet extant: and, to which are added, the accents of all English words, to facilitate their pronunciation to foreigners (Still Image)

Dictionary abridged. In two parts. I. French and English. II. English and French. Containing above five thousand words more than any French and English dictionary yet extant: and, to which are added, the accents of all English words, to facilitate their pronunciation to foreigners

Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729

[448] p. front. (ports.) 21 cm

The seventh edition, carefully corrected. As also an alphabetical list of the most common Christian names of men and women and the abbreviations of the said names vulgarly used. By Mr. A. Boyer

Signatures: A-Z⁸, Aa-Ee⁸

Abel Boyer (1667? – 1729) was a French-English lexicographer, journalist and miscellaneous writer.

Dictionnaire Royal Français et Anglais, Divisé en Deux Parties, the work for which Boyer is best known appeared in 1702 and was ostensibly composed for the use of the Duke of Gloucester, then dead. It was much superior to every previous work of the kind, and has been the basis of very many subsequent French-English dictionaries; the last English unabridged edition is that of 1816; the edition published at Paris in 1860 is stated to be the 41st. For the English-French section Boyer claimed the merit of containing a more complete English dictionary than any previous one, the English words and idioms in it being defined and explained as well as accompanied by their French equivalents. In the French preface to the whole work, Boyer said that 1,000 English words not in any other English dictionary had been added to his by Richard Savage, whom he spoke of as his friend, and who assisted him in several of his French manuals and miscellaneous compilations and translations published subsequently. 

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This volume is an abridged edition, published in 1747

French language -- Dictionaries -- English

English language -- Dictionaries -- French

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PC2640 .B79 1747

London: Printed for W. Innys, W. Mount and T. Page [etc.] 1747

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