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A Dictionary and Guide to Country Living in Early 18th Century England

The Dictionarium rusticum, urbanicum & botanicum, or, A dictionary of husbandry, gardening, trade, commerce, and all sorts of country-affairs...revised second ed.(1717) is as much a dictionary as a manual that describes how to build objects, how to identify plants and illnesses, and shows various types of equipment one might want to use on their farm. It is an unpaginated lexicon printed in double columns. The dictionary contains two engraved plates (one folding) and many woodcut illustrations that are used to augment the information in the text. The dictionary is variously attributed to Nathaniel Bailey and John Worlidge (abebooks). 

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