I. In Two Volumes, Quarto, price 4l. 4s.
IN THIS DICTIONARY—WHICH COMBINES EXPLANATION WITH ETYMOLOGY, AND IS COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY QUOTATIONS FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES:—
1. The WORDS, with those of the same Family in German, Dutch, and Swedish, or in Italian, French, and Spanish, are traced to their origin;
2. The EXPLANATIONS are deduced from the Primitive Meaning through the various usages; and
3. The QUOTATIONS are arranged Chronologically from the earliest Period to the beginning of the present Century.
II. In One Volume, Octavo, price 15s.
In this DICTIONARY, the Explanations and Etymologies, of the Quarto, are retained at full, accompanied by such remarks as the Absence of the Quotations appear to require. And there is prefixed.
A GRAMMATICAL AND ETYMOLOGICAL EXAMINATION ADAPTED TO THE DICTIONARY.
In addition to the testimonies borne to the singularly high Character of Dr. Richardson's Dictionaries which the Publisher has had the good fortune to be able to circulate, he now solicits attention to the powerful Evidence of their peculiar and exclusive merits conveyed in the following Extract, from a little Book "On the Study of Words," recently published by a very competent Judge.⁕
"Many words more suggest themselves: they contain I believe, every one of them, in their derivation or their use, or in both, something that will make it worth your while to acquaint yourselves with them; either some fact of history, some custom of past times, some truth of the moral and spiritual world, some lively and impressive image, or other noticable circumstance about them. In most cases, RICHARDSON'S DICTIONARY, the only one from which I can promise you effectual help, for it is the only English one, in which Etymology assumes the Dignity of a Science, will put you in the right position for judging why the Word has been suggested to you."