The royal standard English dictionary
Subtitle: in which the words are not only rationally divided into syllables, accurately accented, their part of speech properly distinguished, and their various significations arranged in one line, but likewise by a key to this work comprising the various sounds of the vowels and consonants denoted by typographical characters and illustrated by examples which render it intelligible to the weakest capacity, it exhibits their true pronunciation according to the present practice of men of letters, eminent orators and polite speakers in London upon a plan perfectly plain and entirely new ...
By: by William Perry, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh.
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The third Worcester edition, carefully revised and corrected.
Publisher: By Leonard Worcester for Isaiah Thomas, sold at his bookstore by said Thomas & Waldo in Brookfield and said Thomas & Carlisle in Walpole, sold also in Boston by said Thomas and Andrews, S. Hall, B. Larkin, J. White, D. West, E. Larkin, jun., J. West, and at the Boston bookstore
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
Subjects: English language -- Dictionaries; English language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Dictionaries.; Early works to 1800.
Notes: Evans 27495
Signatures: A-U⁶ W⁶ X-2U⁶ 2W⁶ 2X-3B⁶.
Center fold of each gathering is signed with lower case letter.
"To which is prefixed a comprehensive grammar of the English language. To the whole is added the scripture proper names in the Old and New Testaments, names of the principal cities, rivers, mountains, &c. in the known world, also the ancient and modern poets, philosophers and statesmen, &c. with their proper pronunciation pointed out."
LC copy has two copies of gathering M (p. 129-140); gathering D (p. 33-44) is misbound.