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 : to which is prefixed, a comprehensive grammar of the English language : to the whole are 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
By: by William Perry ...
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fifth American edition, carefully revised and corrected.
Publisher: By Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews; Sold by them, and the other booksellers in Boston, by I. Thomas, in Worcester, by Thomas, Andrews & Penniman, in Albany, and by Thomas, Andrews & Butler, in Baltimore
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Printed at Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
Subjects: English language -- Dictionaries
Genres: Dictionaries.
Notes: LC copy has inscription: Elizabeth Dunlop's book.
Evans 38236
The statement "by William Perry" appears on the title page after the edition statement.
Signatures: A-U⁶ W⁶ X-2U⁶ 2W⁶ 2X-3B⁶.
LC copy imperfect: t.p. mutilated; p. 73-76, 81-116, 433-436, 553-556, 593-596 wanting.