Bryce's thumb English dictionary : comprising: besides the ordinary and newest words in the language short explanations of a large number of scientific, philosophical, literary, and technical terms.

Accession number: 
PML 252475
Published: 
Glasgow : David Bryce and Son, [1892?]
Description: 
386 pages : portrait ; 57 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes: 

Portrait of "Dr Johnson" as frontispiece.
Conjectural date from Fleeman (dated "[?? 1892]", no copy located), in a list of miniature dictionaries exhibiting even a slight connection with Samuel Johnson.
Text, except for preliminaries, printed crosswise, numbering the openings; the first opening, which begins on the verso of the 4th leaf, is unnumbered.
"Printed at the University Press"--Title page verso.

Binding: 
Tan cloth stamped in black, floral endpapers..
Provenance: 
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
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