Etymologicum Anglicanum.
JUNIUS or DU JON, (Francis, the younger).; LYE (Edward, redactor).
Ex autographo descripsit & accessionibus permultis auctum edidit Edwardus Lye ...
Praemittuntur vita auctoris et grmmatica Anglo-Saxonica.
Engraved fronitispiece portrait of Junius by G. Vertue after Vandyck ("ex Archetypo in Blbliotheca Bodleiana asservato")
First Edition. Folio. [316] ff. Contemporary calf (rubbed and stained, hinges weak).
Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1743
Lye dedicated this monumental work to James, Earl of Northampton and reproduced in it the life of Junius by Graevius. The extensive subscriber's list at the end includes many of the most eminent philogists and antiquaries of the day, and a large number of bishops, judges, and ars magisterii of both universities.
LOOK AT: Mayou, Martha B. "The Sources of the Etymologicum Anglicanum (1743) by Franciscus Junius." Dictionaries 20 (1999), 90-150, ill
Provenance: Fr. Dickins (armorial bookplate dated 1795). 2. The Lords Lilford (armorial bookplate, later library label, and pencil press marks.)
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