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The English dictionarie or, An interpreter of hard English words: enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clerkes, merchants; as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking, and writing. The third edition, reuised and enlarged. By H.C. Gent.

General note: H.C. = Henry Cockeram. Signatures: A4 B-X8 Y4. Variant: title page misprints "attaining" as "attianing". Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E3 a fragment with title page only. Catalogue cutting pasted on inside front cover UK-SuSCL Cited in: STC (2nd ed.), 5463 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1976. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1406:14). Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, Tract supplement ; E3:2(Harl.5974[103])). Ownership and custodial history: MS. ink signature on t.p. (C18th?): "Wm. Hulbert"; Wm. Jaggard's notes (ca. 1920s) inserted; MS. ink inscription on inside front cover: "Presented by John D. Denman Esq"; deposit from RSC UK-SuSCL Binding Information: Contemporary limp vellum binding, "Mr Cockerans Dictionary An[n]o Dom. 1633" in MS. ink on spine UK-SuSCL