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220 The Publishers' Circular , I ^
220 The Publishers' Circular , I ^
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¦ ™ - «~ —¦ IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT . I ISSUE OF M ENTIRELY REIODELLED , REVISED , I Am LARGELY INCREASED EDITIOI f OF ! Spiers' French & English Dictionary . ( 7 % e Twenty-ninth Edition . ) I MESSES . SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , & CO . have the pleasure to | announce that they have been appointed Sole English Agents for the sale I of this most valuable book , to the following notice of which in the Times of ; I February 25 they beg to draw attention : I * Messrs . Mesnil-Dramard et Cie ., formerly I the house of Baudry , have just published a Now . ready , lish new Dictionary edition of , Dr in . two Spiera volumes ' s French , which and will Eng be - Now keady . In T Two m Royal Ti ^ i octav i . o difficulty asft welcomed & b u y all & choosing who tf ^ confron work SSi of ted the with « the nd . In T Two * ^ octo [ : changes made from edition to edition were not ; I 17 VOI nlii UIHC "mnr « O any numer thoroug ous , and h revision the book . had The never 29 th undergone edition in Tf lOllIDluS / vlTirann ; this respect differs from its predecessors . The of about au his thor dictionary was engaged in 1869 on , the when work he of died recasting ; and of about since then the work has been continued by his 800 PAGES EACH . successor as Professor at the Eerie des Ponts . 800 PAGES EACH . et Chaussees , Mr . Witcomb . The result of Price in cloth 185 . which their successive contains labours about 200 is this new of edition new , Price in clothl & s . „ half , , j , bound , , , , 21 _ , s . attent matter ion , or , it some seems 12 , has , 000 been now given words pages to . the Speci cor al - » Balf _ ... bound , , , 21 rt 1 * . rect rendering of new scientific terms . But one Vox . I . French-English , dictionary of the most is valuable that it features gives the of this English excellent and voL # i . French-English . Vol . II . English-French . French equivalents of proper , mythological , Voii . II . Engush-Fuencii . and geographical names , a matter which authors of dictionaries ara too apt to overlook/—The Times , February 25 , 1884 . This Edition has been printed from entirely new type , and the whole of the new matter collected by Dr . Spiers , amounting to one hundred and sixty additional pages of print , has been incorporated . Moreover , the Vocabulary has since been enriched by the insertion of a very large number of new words , whereby the Dictionary is raised to a level with the knowledge of the present day . An idea of the most COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE character of this Dictionary may be gained from the following copy of the title-page .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1884, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031884/page/24/
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