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Parallels of the sounds and syllables of the French and English languages: or, The French pronunciation made easy to the English learner : Being a perpetual dictionary... for ... attaining the true pronunciation of the French tongue, and the French orthography. To which is prefixed, A dissertation on the French alphabet. And likewise is added, A dissertation teaching the true manner of reading and pronouncing French poetry. The whole laid down in a method entirely new
Arnoux, Claude
1730
Signatures: A-C⁴, a-d⁴, e³, A-Q⁴, 1 leaf unsigned. Preface in French and English, on opposite pages. French and English text of main body of work in columns vis-à-vis, flanking and surmounti...
The royal dictionary abridged : In two parts. I. French and English. II. English and French. Containing near five thousand words more than any French and English dictionary yet extant, besides the Royal. To which is added, the accenting of all English words, to facilitate the pronunciation of the English tongue to foreigners (v.1-2)
Boyer, Abel (1667-1729)
1700
Signatures: a² B-3P⁴; A-4C⁴. The English-French section has separate register.
Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latin : Per Gabrielem Dugres, Linguæ Gallicæ in Illustrissima & Famosissima Oxoniensi Academia haud ita pridem privato munere Prælectorem... Accesserunt huic editioni, eiusdem authoris, Regulus pronuncuiandi; ut & Verborum Gallicorum Paradigmata
Dugrès, Gabriel (fl. 1643)
1660
Text in French, English and Latin in parallel columns. Dedication signed: Gabriel Dugres.
Lexicon tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary : whereunto is adjoined a large nomenclature of the proper terms (in all the four) belonging to several arts and sciences, to recreations, to professions both liberal and mechanick, &c., divided into fiftie two sections : with another volume of the choicest proverbs in all the said toungs, (consisting of divers compleat tomes) and the English translated into the other three... : more over, there are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs, with a particular tome of the Brittish or old Cambrian sayed sawes and adages, which the author thought fit to annex hereunto ... : lastly, there are five centuries of new sayings which, in tract of time, may serve for proverbs to posterity
Howell, James (1594?-1666); Grismond, John; Bee, Cornelius
1660
Half-title page reads: Howell's dictionary. Engraved illustrated frontispiece. Part [2], "A particular vocabulary, or nomenclature...[etc.]", bears imprint "London, printed by Thomas Leach, 1659"....
The great French dictionary. In two parts. The first, French and English; the second, English and French; according to the ancient and modern orthography. Wherein each language is set forth in its greatest latitude: the various senses of words, both proper and figurative, are orderly digested; and illustrated with apposite phrases, and proverbs: the hard words explained; and the proprieties adjusted. To which are prefixed the grounds of both languages, in two grammatical discourses; the one English, and the other French
Miege, Guy (1644-1718?)
1688
Second part has separate signatures and title page, dated 1687. Part titles to French-English and English-French sections dated 1687. An enlarged edition of his "New dictionary, French and English...
Lexicon tetraglotton : an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary; whereunto is adjoined a large nomenclature of the proper terms (in all the four) belonging to several arts and sciences... divided into fiftie two sections; with another volume of the choicest proverbs in all the said toungs ... Moreover, there are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs
Howell, James (1594?-1666)
1660
"A particular vocabvlary, or nomenclature..." and "Paroimiographia. Proverbs ..." have special title-pages dated 1659; [v.2] printed by T. Leach. Identical with Wing H3087 except for different impri...