![[A dictionarie of English and Latine idiomes wherein phrases of the English tongue answering in parallels each to the other are ranked under severall heads alphabetically set...] Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina, sive Dictionarium idiomaticum Anglo-Latinum: in quo phrases, tam Latinæ quam Anglicanæ linguæ sibi mutuò respondentes, sub certis quibusdam capitibus secundum alphabeti ordinem è regione collocantur. In usum tam peregrinorum, qui sermonem nostru Anglicanum, quàm nostratium, qui Latinum idioma callere student. Quarta editio. Cui acessit istiusmodi phrasium & idiomatum additio in utraque lingua ad minus trium millium.](/photos/1298/full/1298.jpg "[A dictionarie of English and Latine idiomes wherein phrases of the English tongue answering in parallels each to the other are ranked under severall heads alphabetically set...] Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina, sive Dictionarium idiomaticum Anglo-Latinum: in quo phrases, tam Latinæ quam Anglicanæ linguæ sibi mutuò respondentes, sub certis quibusdam capitibus secundum alphabeti ordinem è regione collocantur. In usum tam peregrinorum, qui sermonem nostru Anglicanum, quàm nostratium, qui Latinum idioma callere student. Quarta editio. Cui acessit istiusmodi phrasium & idiomatum additio in utraque lingua ad minus trium millium.")
WALKER, William.
[A dictionarie of English and Latine idiomes wherein phrases of the English tongue answering in parallels each to the other are ranked under severall heads alphabetically set...] Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina, sive Dictionarium idiomaticum Anglo-Latinum: in quo phrases, tam Latinæ quam Anglicanæ linguæ sibi mutuò respondentes, sub certis quibusdam capitibus secundum alphabeti ordinem è regione collocantur. In usum tam peregrinorum, qui sermonem nostru Anglicanum, quàm nostratium, qui Latinum idioma callere student. Quarta editio. Cui acessit istiusmodi phrasium & idiomatum additio in utraque lingua ad minus trium millium.
London: E. Horton for T Sawbridg, 1685.
8vo (174 × 106 mm.), pp. [24], 288, 299-536, complete (despite mispagination) with additional engraved architectural title. Text in English black letter and Latin in parallel columns. Engraved title with unobtrusive early grammatical inscriptions, lightly browned throughout. Early mottled calf, gilt panelled spine, red morocco label. Minor expert repair to joint and corners. Engraved armorial bookplate of Anthony Earl of Kent (1702) and later plates of the poet Maurice Baring (one, on free endpaper, apparently a proof) designed by Hilaire Belloc and dated 1897. An excellent copy.
Walker's excellent Latin-English phrase book was first published in 1670 and was popular enough to run to six editions before the century's close. Arranged alphabetically beneath English word headings it provides short Latin phrases (usually with the classical source identified) and a corresponding English translation. Intended as an aid to polished Latin composition, it is not without a gentle humour. Phrases such as "They bring a company of girls with them" (ancillarem gregem ducunt seum) and "He might compare with Neptune himself for fishing" (Ipse Neptuno non cederet de piscatu) may well have appealed to the contemporary schoolboy. Walker, best known for his more common Treatise of English Particles, was a Lincolnshire schoolmaster who became rector of Colsterworth, the birthplace of Isaac Newton. He was also headmaster of Grantham Free grammar school, but after Newton's time. The two became acquainted at Colsterworth and one hopes that Walker's facility with Latin had some influence on Newton's own highly-accomplished Latin.This copy belonged early to Anthony Grey Earl of Kent and was later in the collection of the English catholic poet and writer Maurice Baring and bears two examples of his very individual bookplate designed by Hilaire Belloc in 1897 with the text "Here goes a ship with a cargo of books to the city of dreams."
Wing W427. All editions are very scarce in commerce. We find, for example, no copy of any edition sold at British or American auctions since 1975.
£900.00
US$1787.22*
* Given as a guide only. Based on an exchange rate of £1 = US$1.985799 for the day 25 July 2008 but liable to fluctuate.
25 July 2008