Lexicon tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary: whereunto is adjoined a large nomenclature of the proper terms (in all the four) belonging to several arts and sciences, to recreations, to professions both liberal and mechanick, &c. Divided into fiftie two sections, with another volume of the choicest proverbs in all the said toungs, (consising of divers compleat tomes) and the English translated into the other three, to take off the reproch which useth to be cast upon her, that she is but barren in this point, and those proverbs she hath are but flat and empty. Moreover, there are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs, with a particular tome of the Brittish or old Cambrian sayed-sawes and adages, which the author thought fit to annex hereunto, and make intelligible, for their great antiquity and weight: lastly, there are five centuries of new sayings, ... By the labours, and lucubrations of James Hovvell, Esq;
https://datb.cerl.org/estc/R14250
Wing H3088
https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/3077396
Howell, James, 1594?-1666
Publication Information
London : printed by J[ohn]. G[rismond]. for Samuel Thomson at the Bishops head in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1660.
London
J.G. [Grismond, John II, fl. 1639?-1666?], Thomson, Samuel, -1668
1660
Properties
English, French, Italian, Latin, Spanish
5
Book
2o
[8], 4, [618], 24, 8, 7-10, [8], 28, [8], 24, [8], 32, [8], 40, [4], 10, [2] p.
Dedicatory letter, Illustration, Poems by the author, Address to Great Britain, Address to the 'true Philologer', Note from the printer to the reader (English, French, Italian, Spanish), Latin quotation on title page
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685
Bibliographical Information
https://www.proquest.com/books/lexicon-tetraglotton-english-french-italian/docview/2240895554/se-2
None
Dictionaries, Polyglot--Early works to 1800, English language--Dictionaries--Polyglot--Early works to 1700, French language--Dictionaries--Polyglot--Early works to 1700, Italian language--Dictionaries--Polyglot--Early works to 1700, Language and languages--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800, Proverbs--Early works to 1800, Spanish language--Dictionaries--Polyglot--Early works to 1700
9
2
8