Stephen Skinner

Stephen Skinner

Dictionaries & Grammars.- Skinner (Stephen) Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae, Seu Explicatio vocum Anglicarum Etymologica ex propriis fontibus, first edition, initial imprimatur f. (soiled on recto), light damp-staining to head of first few ff., 4U1 with tear to foot just running into text, but a good, wide-margined copy generally, contemporary calf, rebacked in 19th century morocco, [Wing S3947], folio, T. Roycroft, 1671.

⁂ First edition of this etymological dictionary, cited by Johnson as an influence on his own dictionary.