The new world of words
Subtitle: or, A general English dictionary : containing the proper significations, and etymologies of all words derived from other languages ... : together with the definitions of all those terms that conduce to the understanding of any of the arts or sciences ... : to which are added, the significations of proper names, derived from the ancient or modern tongues ...
Contributors: Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.
Edition: The fourth edition. Containing besides an addition of several thousand words ... a brief view of the most eminent persons of the ancients ... / collected and published by E.P. --
Publisher: Printed by W.R. for Obadiah Blagrave ...
Published: 1678
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: English language -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1700
Other titles: A general English dictionary
Work titles: The new world of English words.
Notes: Dedicatory epistle signed: Edward Phillips.

First ed. (London, 1658) has title: The new world of English words.

Wing P2072.

Based largely on Thomas Blount's Glossographia (London, 1656). Cf. Starnes, D.W.T.  The English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755, p. 50.