Author: Peter Mark Roget | Barnas Sears (Editor)
Title: [REFERENCE] THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS, SO CLASSIFIED AND ARRANGED AS TO FACILITATE THE EXPRESSION OF IDEAS AND ASSIST IN LITERARY COMPOSITION
Publication: Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854
Edition: First American Edition
Description: Hard Cover. 8vo. (8" x 5 1/8'); in brown embossed cloth, with very wobbly boards, loss to the cloth at the gutter and the spine; 468 pages including the Index, and followed by [12] pages of publisher's ads; a very early printing of Mr. Roget's reference, which is essentially a "reverse dictionary".~~First printed in England two years earlier, this is the first printing in America, as listed in Vancil. (Vancil 208).
Good binding.
Seller ID: 297580
Subject: Scholarly