Joseph Baretti

A Dictionary, Spanish and English AND English and Spanish: containing the Signification of Words, and their different uses; together with the Terms of Arts, Sciences and Trades; and the Spanish ...

      J Nourse, 1778. Second Edition. Folio. Two vols. in one.. Vol.1: pi\2 A-4U\2; vol.2: pi\2 A-3Z\2. Full calf. Six raised bands and morrocco title plate to spine, lettered in gilt. Boards uniformly scuffed, joints weak, but holding, corners worn back, with tight, sound textblock. Ex libris Tertian's Library. A remarkable piece of scholarship, the present dictionary was revered in its time and largely unreplaced until the mid nineteenth-century. The author, Joseph Baretti, is famous among other things for having been defended by both Joshua Reynolds and Topham Beauclerk at a capital trial at the Old Bailey in 1759, a case in which he was acquitted on grounds of self-defence. [Publisher: J Nourse]