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HARRIS (JOHN) Lexicon Technicum: or, an Universal English Dictionary, 1704
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HARRIS (JOHN)
Lexicon Technicum: or, an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining Not Only the Terms of Art but the Arts Themselves, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, 7 engraved plates (2 folding, one with old tear), numerous woodcut illustrations, list of subscribers (including Isaac Newton), upper fore-corner of title torn away with some loss to rule border, light dampstaining in lower fore-corner of approximately 20 leaves at end, modern quarter morocco [PMM 171a], small folio (320 x 202mm), Dan. Brown, Tim Goodwin, [and others], 1704
Footnotes
The first edition of the "first technical dictionary in any language. The most famous of his contributors was Isaac Newton" (PMM). A second volume was published in 1710.
Provenance: Thomas Snyddon, 12 October 1788, ownership inscription on the front free endpaper.