The Complete Illustrations 1762-1777. In five volumes, totalling nearly 3,500 pages, profusely illustrated (some double page), indices; f'cap. 8vo; navy art. leather, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, light blue/grey cloth boards; within a single matching cloth box with side ribbon, cloth slightly soiled and damp stained; bookplate of Melbourne... More
Or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; ... The third edition, in eighteen volumes, greatly improved. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates. In 22 volumes, comprising I-XVIII (text), XIX-XX (plates), XXI-XXII (Supplement, 1801); each volume over 800 pages, totalling over 16,000, with two leaves [of 4?] at... More
Upon original plan designed to give, in complete and accurate statement, in the light of the most recent advances in knowledge, in the readiest form for popular use, the orthography, pronunciation, meaning, and etymology of all the words, and the meaning of idiomatic phrases, in the speech and literature of... More
Pen Pictures of the People Behind our Language. With illustrations by John Nicolson. Pp. 176(mostly printed double column), text illustrations, index; boards slightly faded at edges, the top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges slightly rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips; free... More
In which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings, and authorized by the names of the writers in whose works they are found. A new edition, carefully revised, with the grammar of the English tongue, and several thousand additional words. Pp. 36+732, mostly double column... More
Based on The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English. First edited by F. G. and H. W. Fowler. Pp. xxiv+992(most printed double column, the last 17 pages blank, for notes); thick f'cap. 8vo; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1976. First Australian... More
A dictionary of Australianisms on historical principles. Pp. xvi+814, select bibliography; thick demy 4to; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1988. First edition. More
One man, one year, 21,730 pages. Pp. xvi+224(last blank), further reading; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; title page faintly soiled on reverse; Viking, Melbourne, 2008. First Australian edition. *'Filled with lexicographical revelations and miscellaneous marginalia' [wrapper blurb]. More
A popular guide to words in the news. Pp. xii+322; med. 8vo; slight bruise at head of spine; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed, edges a trifle creased and split; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991. First edition. *'Spin doctor, fun run, insider trading, genetic fingerprinting, thirtysomething, designer water, liposuction, Cablevision, gentrification, intifada... More
Being the authentic edition of Webster's unabridged dictionary, comprising the issues of 1864, 1879, and 1884 thoroughly revised and much enlarged under the supervision of Noah Porter, with a voluminous appendix to which is now added a Supplement of twenty-five thousand words and phrases. W. T. Harris, Editor in Chief... More
Based on the international dictionary of 1890 and 1900 now completely revised in all departments including also a dictionary of geography and of biography, being especially full in Australasian terms.... W. T. Harris, Editor in Chief. F. Sturges Allen, General Editor. Pp. lxxxiv+2662(mostly printed double or triple column), engraved frontispiece... More
Pp. 88, indices; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the backstrip browned; bookplate on upper pastedown, the free endpapers slightly offset, edges of leaves faintly foxed; James Bennett, Sydney, 1966. First Australian edition. The Readers Guide series. *'The aim of this work... More