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Condition: Very Good +. London: Printed for J. Phillips, at the King's-Arms in S. Paul's Church-Yard; N. Rhodes, at the Star, the Corner of Bride-Lane, in Fleet-street; and J. Taylor, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1706. Folio. Unpaginated; A2 A-Z4 2a-2b4 2A-2L4 2M2 2*M1 3A-3V4 4A-4O4 5A-5Z4; lacks engraved frontispiece. Recently rebound in full Cambridge-style calf with six raised bands to spine, red leather title label, and new endpapers. Tight in binding; marginal spotting and soiling though text remains legible throughout. A handsomely bound, Very Good or better copy. According to Starnes and Noyes, Kersey's revisions to this edition were so extensive that this work should be considered an entirely new dictionary. Moreover, this was a "universal dictionary, so intelligently planned and executed as to constitute a distinguished performance and a worthy forerunner of Johnson." (Starnes and Noyes. The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604-1705, p. 84) [ESTC No: T101516].…