A Galic and English Dictionary
Subtitle: Containing all the Words in the Scotch and Irish Dialects of the Celtic, that could be collected from the Voice, and Old Books and MSS
By: By the Rev. William Shaw, A.M. .... Volume 1.
Publisher: Printed for the Author, by W. and A. Strahan; And sold by J. Murray, Fleet-street; P. Elmsly, Strand; C. Elliott, J. Balfour, and R. Jamieson, Edinburgh; D. Prince, Oxford; Messrs. Merril, Cambridge; Wilson, Dublin; and Pissot, at Paris
Published: 1780
Place of publication: London
Language: gla
Number of pages: 190
Notes: William Shaw, on coming from Glasgow to London, 'became acquainted with Dr. Johnson, and was one of the literary coterie which met at Bolt Court and Streatham Park ... After having travelled three thousand miles in Scotland and Ireland he completed his vocabulary, and published it under the title of 'A Gaelic and English ... Dictionary ... 1780'; the work contains 'an undue proportion of strictly Irish words' as a result of an argument between Shaw and some of the subscribers who declared the book defective; 'the highlanders had refused to give him information unless he paid them for it. Thereupon Shaw proceeded to Ireland, where the peasantry received him with more urbanity' [DNB]

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Table of contents: value: Contains, after title-page, and preceding main text: 'Dedication', signed: 'W. Shaw. London, May 26, 1780'; 'Preface'; 'A List of Subscribers'.