Online 1878 Pronouncing Dictionary of French And English Languages

Antique French And English Pronouncing Dictionary 1878 - Leather Binding

Spiers And Surenne's French And English Pronouncing Dictionary Newly Composed From The French Dictionaries Of The French Academy, Laveaux, Boiste, Bescherelle, Landais, Etc. And From The English Dictionaries Of Johnson, Webster, Worcester, Richardson, Etc...."

Originally published in 1846, this is an 1878 edition. Large Antique Book

By Alexander Spiers and Gabriel Surenne

Large antique hardcover book with leather binding in good condition with a good binding and no loose pages. The title is embossed gold stamped on the leather spine.

There is wear to the cover with bumped corners, changes to the color of the leather, dings and scrapes to the leather, scraped edges, and other signs of age and use. Otherwise a solid book. Original owner's name and notes in pencil at front. Smudges and ink stains on rear endpapers. No mold, no mildew, no smell.

Antique hardcover book 7 1/4" x 10" x 2 3/4"; 651 pages. Large and heavy book!

By Alexander Spiers (1807–1869) was an English lexicographer. "He was nominated an Agrégé de l'Université (roughly, a professorship), an Officier de l'Instruction Publique (officer of the Education Minister), Examinateur à la Sorbonne, and Inspecteur Général de l'Université. He received the cross of the Legion of Honour from Napoleon III. For fourteen years he devoted himself largely to compiling a new English-French and French-English dictionary. It appeared in 1846 as General English and French Dictionary, newly composed from the English dictionaries of Johnson, Webster, Richardson, &c., and from the French dictionaries of the French Academy, of Laveaux, Boiste, (London, 1846). It proved superior to anything which had preceded it, and was at once ‘autorisé par le conseil de l'instruction publique'. The twenty-ninth edition, in two volumes, appeared in 1884 (remodelled by H. Witcomb, Spiers's successor at the École des Ponts et Chaussées), and it remained for a long time a standard dictionary. Both Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Muir owned copies. online An abridgment, under the title of Dictionnaire abrégé Anglais-Français et Français-Anglais, abrégé du Dictionnaire Général de M. Spiers, was brought out in 1851 and supplied to almost every school and lycée in France."

And, by Gabriel Surenne (1777-1858) a 19th-century French-born military historian living in Scotland who authored numerous publications in the fields of warfare and battle analysis and also in French grammar.

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