An abridgement of Ainsworth's dictionary of the Latin tongue, from the folio edition
Subtitle: in which certain articles, in the course of that excellent book, of less importance to youth are retrenched ... : in order to render it still more useful, care has been taken to compare the English part with Mr. Johnson's celebrated Dictionary of the English Language, and to make such other amendments in it as seemed necessary
By: by Mr. Thomas ; in two volumes
Contributors: Thomas, N.; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784; W. Mount and T. Page; Walpole, Horace, former owner; Antell, J., former owner; Goldberg, Gerald M., former owner; Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)
Publisher: Printed for W. Mount and T. Page, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar ... [and 20 others]
Published: 1758
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Latin language; Dictionaries; English; English language; Latin
Work titles: Thesaurus linguae Latinae compendiarius
Notes: The phrase in the title 'from the folio edition' is enclosed in square brackets.

Each v. has half title.

Preface signed: N. Thomas.

Signatures: v.1: [A]⁴ B-4I⁴ [dagger]A-[dagger]T⁴; v.2: pi² *A-*5Q⁴.

v.1; viii, [768] p.; v.2: [868] p.

"Thesauri linguae Latinae compendiarii ... nomina propria tradens & explicans": vol. 1, leaves [dagger]A1r-[dagger]T3r.

Last [3] p. of v.1 are advertisements.

ESTC T89748

Courtney, W.P.  Johnson, p. 42.