Beschreibung:

A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages.
London: for C. Hitch and L. Hawes [etc.], 1760. 2 volumes, 4to (261 x 200 mm.). Contemporary calf gilt, rebacked retaining original morocco spine labels. Condition : preliminary leaves with vertical creases and some spotting, lacking first leaf (? blank) in each vol. New endpapers, corners worn. Provenance: J.S. Fownes (contemporary signature on each title-page). first edition , with title listing 13 booksellers in the imprint (another issue of the same sheets lists a single bookseller; no priority), dedication to Don Felix, Marquis of Abreu and Bertodano, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from his Catholick Majesty to the King of Great Britain. Hazen, pp. 6-8; Maggs 1038/93.